Russian Alexei Sarana won the European Chess Championship
Russian chess player Alexei Sarana won the European Championship in Serbia. This is reported by the correspondent of “Lenta.ru”.
The grandmaster scored 8.5 points out of 11. Kirill Shevchenko, representing Romania, and Daniel Darda, playing for Belgium, got the same points. They took second and third place respectively in the additional indicators.
Another Russian, Andrey Esipenko, scored 8 points and finished eighth. On the 11th line is David Paravyan, who also has 8 points. In accordance with the rules, 23 of the strongest participants in the European Championship received tickets to the World Cup of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) 2023.
On February 28, it became known that Russia was admitted to the Asian Chess Federation. Prior to this, it was reported that FIDE would allow Russians to change sports citizenship under an accelerated program after the Russian Chess Federation moved to Asia.
Source: Lenta
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