We're glad to confirm that GM Vassily Ivanchuk - former
@FIDE_chess
Blitz World Champion and one of the most beloved players - will be coming back to
#Sitges
for the
@Chessable
Sunway Sitges International Chess Festival (12 thru 22/12/2022). It's going to be a great event again!
Team India 🇮🇳 takes silver medal at the
@FIDE_chess
World Women's Team Championship
#Sitges
2021. Congratulations for a great tournament and a great fight! It has not only been a honor but also a great pleasure to host such a kind group of talented top women players.
Algunos dicen que la política mundial es como un tablero de ajedrez. Los jugadores de ajedrez intentan ganar, pero con respeto y dándose la mano. Los peones se pueden capturar, pero no mueren: vuelven al tablero después de cada partida... Que prevalezca el entendimiento y la paz.
We have a new top seed player: welcome to
@Chessable
@SunwayChessOpen
GM Leinier Domínguez 🇺🇸! Excited to have
#7
player in the world in this special 10th edition of our tournament, in his attempt to qualify for the
@FIDE_chess
Candidates Tournament!
📷 (Leinier):
@davidllada
Congratulations to GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov 🇺🇿 who just won the
@FIDE_chess
#WorldRapid
Championship in Warsaw just 5 days after winning
#SunwaySitges
in Spain. He won our tournament beating another 3 players in a blitz playoff 5 days ago: is he also trained for the
#WorldBlitz
?
2 years ago he won Sunway Formentera Chess Festival; now he's the winner of the 2024 Candidates Tournament. Congratulations GM
@DGukesh
, what a journey it's been, and what a journey you've got ahead of you! We wish you all the best 😊
#ChessInParadise
India 🇮🇳 was able to beat Georgia 🇬🇪 and will be in the final of the
@FIDE_chess
World Women's Team Championship tomorrow.
@TaniaSachdev
secured victory with a last win, but team's emotions and celebration cannot last long: less than 24 h. to go!
We have a winner! Congratulations to GM Kirill Alekseenko (
@FIDE_chess
flag) for a great tournament! Also to his opponent today,
@HansMokeNiemann
🇺🇸, who will have to defend second place in a playoff at 4pm.
GM
@DGukesh
inaugurated a new tradition: whoever wins
@chessable
@SunwayChessOpen
in Formentera has the right of a "free swim" in the pool! 😄 Great champion for our first edition, congratulations!
Congratulations to GM
@DGukesh
🇮🇳 for his win! He took the 1st. edition of the
@chessable
Sunway Formentera Chess Festival with an impressive 8/10 score. It's 3 wins in a row in Spain 🇪🇸 for the
#1
U-16 player in the world, preparing for his first appearance at a Chess Olympiad.
Enorme participación de
@pepeich_cuenca
en
@GibraltarChess
! Performance de 2637, tablas contra maestros como Ivanchuk o Adams, y 17,4 puntos de ELO al bolsillo para alcanzar lo que parece ser su nuevo máximo histórico. Felicidades!
@chess24es
@El_Divis
We're glad to announce our 2022 commentators: GM Peter Svidler and GM Jan Gustafsson will be broadcasting every round of the 9th
@Chessable
Sunway Sitges tournament live from the venue! We hope they enjoy the Open, side activites and nice weather. We couldn't have a better team!
Anna and Mariya Muzychuk, and Anna Ushenina, World Champions in several categories, are the top players of the Ukrainian team 🇺🇦 which is competing at the
@FIDE_chess
WWTC 2021.
Players are having fun with this new online classic chess experience. Some are sending us photos that show how they setup their space in order to take part in our tournament. Like RSA twin brothers Judah & Caleb Levitan, best two U8 chess players in Africa (2018). Gens una sumus!
WGM Irene Sukandar 🇮🇩 is one of the Indonesian Team players that came to
#Sitges
this year as part of their preparation for the 2022 SEA Games and the 2022 ASIAN Games. She is not only a great player (she's the top rated woman of her country) but also a nice and joyful person!
Congratulations to GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov 🇺🇿 for his win at the strong
#SunwaySitges
2021. GM Kollars 🇩🇪 takes second after a great tournament for him, and GM Puranik 🇮🇳 finishes 3rd. Most important, the tournament ends safely for everyone in these difficult times...
GM Leinier Domínguez 🇺🇲 in the analysis room checking his game with his coach GM Vladimir Chuchelov and his oponent GM Pranav Anand 🇮🇳. A draw that he will need to recover in the next rounds if he wants to take
@GMWesleySo123
spot in the
@FIDE_chess
Candidates 2024.
#SunwaySitges
Here we go! The 2 leaders of the
#SunwaySitges
tournament, GM Puranik 🇮🇳 and GM Kollars 🇩🇪 facing the last round. A win gives the top prize, a draw will take them to the playoffs.
GM Haik Martirosyan 🇦🇲 and
@GMSasikiran
🇮🇳 drew their game earlier today during the 8th round of the
@chessable
Sunway Formentera Chess Festival. They had been preparing their
@FIDE_chess
rated game already a couple of days ago in a more relaxed atomosphere...😅
India's 🇮🇳 Leon Luke Mendonca is trying to score his last GM norm in
#SunwaySitges
2020. Today he drew with black against GM Romanishin 🇺🇦 and both analyzed the game after the round. It's going to be interesting to see if he can get it!
When you are playing one of the most crucial events in your career, and what stands between you and your goal is a 14-year-old kid whose 1859 rating does not reflect his actual strength... 😅
This year at Sunway Sitges:
- World's U-11 number 1 player: Raahil Mullick
- World's U-12 number 1 player: Gukesh D.
- World's U-13 number 1 player: GM Praggnanandhaa
- World's U-14 number 1 player: GM Nihal Sarin
- Europe's U-15 number 1 player: IM Vincent Keymer
And Chucky!
4th round has started at
#SunwaySitges
. One of the interesting games today is on board 10 wirh IM Soumya Swaminathan and GM Nihal Sarin, since both have been playing well during the first 3 rounds. You can follow live games on major chess platforms.
WGM Mary Ann Gomes 🇮🇳 is the sole leader of the women players ranking with 4 points in 5 rounds, after her win today against IM Renato Quintiliano 🇧🇷. She won the silver medal at the Teams World Championship in October here in
#Sitges
, so this place seems to bring her some luck!
This is how our 2 virtual playing halls looked just after half an hour into today's 2nd round. With the help of arbiters and our staff, most players are now comfortable starting their games, and technical issues are solved quickly. Sitges' playing halls are always spectacular! 😄
We've just reached 400 players! Nice milestone, but we're also proud that our work to try to improve conditions and prizes for women players, with
@FIDE_chess
and
@chessable
's support, seems to be paying off: over 60 women players from 29 federations so far, more than ever (1/2)
Congratulations to CFR Team, the new
@FIDE_chess
World Women's Team Champions! It's never easy to meet expectations when you are the favorite team, but they did a terrific and very professional job, so very much deserved. All the best, we hope to see you all back to
#Sitges
soon!
And we have a winner!
@HansMokeNiemann
takes 2nd night blitz tournament of this year's
#SunwaySitges
with 7,5/9. It may be the little extra push he needs for the 2nd part of our open tournament in order to gain a few more rating points to cross 2500 and officially become a GM.
Good morning Formentera! Getting ready for the start of the 2022
@Chessable
Sunway Formentera Chess Festival. The opening cocktail will kick off the event in a couple of hours.
Here are some setups that players taking part in our online tournament these last 9 rounds shared with us. An interesting way of playing online chess, which was allowed thanks to the classic time control of this first-ever online Swiss!
@ChesscomNews
@Anna_Chess
@DanielKingChess
📢 ATENCIÓN‼ Estamos encantados de poder anunciar que los grandes
@Pepeich_Cuenca
y
@El_Divis
se encargarán de la retransmisión en español del torneo Sunway Sitges International Chess Festival 2019. En vivo desde
#Sitges
a partir del 13/12. ¿Te lo vas a perder?
#TopTeam
👍🏻
We'll organize a new tournament for the 1st time this year: Sunway Formentera International Chess Festival is born!
📍Formentera, Spain 🏖🦎
(close to Ibiza)
🗓 April 29th to May 8th, 2022
💰 20.500 €
♟️ 10 rounds, 2 groups (open & <2000)
🎓 Masterclasses, blitz, lectures, ...
GM Vassily Ivanchuk 🇺🇦 taking some rest after the conclusion of the III Sunway Formentera International Chess Festival where he was runner-up. He couldn't be more concentrated during the tournament, but now it's time for him to also enjoy Paradise...
We have a champion! GM Vladimir Fedoseev (
@FIDE_chess
flag) wins the playoff to become the 2023 champion of the
@chessable
Sunway Formentera International Chess Festival. He takes a classic tournament again 6 years after his last win, and it was a strong one. Congratulations! 🏆
Tenemos un nuevo número 1 en nuestro ranking: bienvenido al
@Chessable_es
@SunwayChessOpen
GM Leinier Domínguez 🇺🇲! Encantados de tener al n°. 7 del mundo en esta 10a edición especial de nuestro torneo, en su búsqueda de la clasificación para el Candidatos!
Legendary GM Vassily Ivanchuk 🇺🇦 will take place in our Sunway Formentera International Chess Festival that starts on April 9th. It will be his first visit to this dream island, but not to a
#Sunway
chess event after having played a few times in Sitges.
#ChessInParadise
🏝️
WGM
@keti_chess
🇬🇪 is facing GM Haik Martirosyan 🇦🇲 in the second round of the the 2022 Sunway Formentera International Chess Festival. Keti is the 3rd highest rated woman player of this first edition of our tournament.
We had a very special and spectacular opening game at the
@FIDE_chess
World Women's Team Championship 2021 in
#Sitges
! And it showed exactly what we expect to have here this whole week: very nice people, competition, emotions, sportsmanship and fun.
@DanaReizniece
vs
@advorkovich
Alexandra Prado (🇧🇴 1861) is playing in Sitges for the first time. Based in France, she is originally from Bolivia, a country that she has represented at multiple Olympiads.
@Alexandra_chess
is also a content creator & streamer:
We look forward to welcoming
@alexandrabotez
🇨🇦and
@itsandreabotez
🇨🇦 at Sunway Formentera International Chess Festival that will start on April 9th in our beautiful island in Spain. Don't miss it and keep on tuning into their chess tournaments!
#ChessInParadise
🏝️
8th round on its way at
#SunwaySitges
with 4 players tied at 6/7. These final 3 rounds will decide if there's a champion or if we'll need playoffs! We are hosting the tournament safely and without issues despite the pandemic, with the valuable aid and support of
@FIDE_chess
♟
7th edition of
#SunwaySitges
International Chess Festival is on its way! The most complicated and challenging year starts with GM Romanishin giving a simul exhibition with distance, face masks, etc., but we are glad that we worked hard applying security measures to make it happen
And we have a winner!!! 🏆 Bulgarian 🇧🇬 GM Ivan Cheparinov wins 7th
#SunwaySitges
International Chess Festival! We rushed to congratulate him, but could only be second as his wife GM Antoaneta Stefanova - former Women's World Champion - had already done 😄. Congratulations again!
With the last moves of this year's event and the fireworks that came after that, it's the right time to thank again everyone who supported our event, specially
@FIDE_chess
for helping us with women players' prizes and invitations, and
@Chessable
for enabling a great blitz event.
GM Alexander Donchenko 🇩🇪 is our 2024 champion! He played well, he said he had a lot of fun, and he went into the sea in Formentera for the first time in his life 👍🏻 Congratulations!!!
#ChessInParadise
This is the group of staff and volunteers of the Catalan Chess Federation who have put all their effort in order to ensure that the
@FIDE_chess
WWTC 2021 is a success. Team job!
Organizaremos un nuevo torneo por 1a. vez este año: nace el Festival Internacional de Ajedrez Sunway Formentera!
📍Formentera (Islas Baleares) 🏖🦎
🗓 29 de abril a 8 de mayo de 2022
💰 20.500 €
♟️ 10 rondas, 2 grupos (abierto & <2000)
🎓 Masterclasses, blitz, conferencias, ...
Round 1 is on its way in Sitges with almost 400 players this year despite Covid-19. Social distance, masks, health pass, etc. The pandemic didn't interrupt our over-the-board tournament last year, and we hope it's the same this 2021!
📸GM Korobov vs WGM
@Natacha_Benm
in board
#1
France 🇫🇷 defeated Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 today at the
@FIDE_chess
World Women's Team Championship in
#Sitges
and has a chance to advance to quarter finals tomorrow if they beat India 🇮🇳, or even if there are some draws. A difficult 5th match, but confident in their chances...
A black pawn ♟️was trying to escape the venue of
@chessable
Sunway Sitges International Chess Festival, but luckily police🚔was there to prevent it from leaving before time. We'll be able to go on with the tournament's third round as scheduled tomorrow! 💪
Remember that you can
WGM
@irene_sukandar
🇮🇩 qualifying for semi-finals of the table tennis tournament yesterday. In about a week we'll know if she was able to get to the top-3 at the chess tournament, but she has already entered the honor roll at table tennis 👍🏓
@PBPERCASI
When you have someone like
@fionchetta
at the event, not only are great interviews guaranteed, but also some good laughs! And the
#MotivaChess
TV set and make up booth at the
@FIDE_chess
#WWTC2021
in
#Sitges
really help by providing with relax and care after each round.
The
@FIDE_chess
World Women's Team Championship 2021 will start on Sep. 26th in
#Sitges
. We're glad that FIDE relied in the organizers of our tournament to award this important event to our town, and we're committed to help organize it to be as successful as it deserves
Where can you find 5 GMs 2600+(Pragg, Nihal, Karthikeyan, Tabatabaei and Maghsoodloo) playing table tennis after their round? In
#Sitges
you can! Maybe prodigies in this game as well... 😁
#notonlychess
For those of you who have asked, our event
@chessable
@SunwayChessOpen
(Sitges, Barcelona, Spain) is part of the
@FIDE_chess
Circuit. One of the last events of the year. Registrations are still open for this special 10th edition that will start in a few days.
Someone else deserved it! 😀
Not only a great player but, more important than that, a fantastic person, it was a real pleasure to have
@keti_chess
in our inaugural edition of the
@chessable
Sunway Formentera Chess Festival. Thanks for contributing to make it a more joyful event!
We are really glad to be able to announce that this year's broadcast of the tournament will be commented in English by
@Anna_Chess
and
@DanielKingChess
- live from
#Sitges
-, and will be powered by
@Chesscom
! Join us from Dec. 13th 2019 and enjoy the show!
#TopTeam
In the fight for best woman player of 2021, it's WGM Mary Ann Gomes 🇮🇳 who leads after 5 rounds (4/5). Thanks to the support of
@FIDE_chess
not only have we increased prizes for women players (4.000 €), but also were we able to help more women players to attend this year!
Always nice to learn that Sunway Sitges has been leading the list of best open tournaments in Spain again in 2019, 2020 & 2021. However, our only goal is to keep on organizing a nice and strong event with many side activities. And we're working hard to achieve it again this year!
GM Leinier 🇺🇲 got his first victory in the quest for a spot in the Candidates, while Akos 🇭🇺 got one of the chess-moments of his life (and probably one of the best photos for his chess albums). A rare win-win game today in the first board of
@chessable
Sunway Sitges' 1st round!
GM
@DGukesh
🇮🇳 is leading the first edition of
@Chessable
Sunway Formentera Chess Festival after 5 rounds, with another 5 to go. He'll be facing GM
@MiguelSantosRu1
🇪🇸 in today's 6th round.
David Navara, a great player, polite and really friendly: it would be great to see him playing in Sitges at some point as well! One of the biggest rounds of applause of the closing ceremony at
@GibraltarChess
was for him, well deserved
Who can you spot in this photo of today's last round of
@chessable
Sunway Sitges Blitz? Maybe you can try to identify:
- World's
#7
ranked player 🇺🇸
- World's
#1
U10 player 🇦🇷
- World's # 1 U12 player 🇹🇷
GM Antoaneta Stefanova, 2004-2006 World Champion, is giving a simul exhibition for women players just before the official inauguration of the 2020
@SunwayChessOpen
.
La jugadora WFM Adhara Rodríguez 🇪🇸, Campeona de Canarias, ha ganado la sección B del primer torneo blitz del
@chessable
Sunway Sitges International Chess Festival. ¡Muchas felicidades! Nos alegramos de volver a verte en Sitges disfrutando de nuestros torneos de nuevo.
GM Vladimir Fedoseev is thrown to the pool after winning the 2023
@chessable
Sunway Formentera Chess Festival in what is becoming a tradition of our event 😄
We had the immense honor of having World Champion (and 1st person to win Chess Triple-Crown) GM
@SusanPolgar
to open the 6th round of the
@chessable
#SunwaySitges
International Chess Festival. Thank you! First time in Sitges, hopefully not last... 😊
GM Pranav Anand 🇮🇳 has been playing in our event since 2016. Today he's facing one of the biggest games he had in
#Sitges
against GM Leinier Domínguez 🇺🇲. He didn't look nervous before the game as you can see, and he said he's s confident he can play a good game this afternoon...
Cheat-detection was our priority during the online classic open that we organized during the 2020 lockdown (it went really well thanks to
@ChesscomLive
), and we take it seriously now also during the
@chessable
#SunwaySitges
Festival. Special thanks to top players for cooperating!
We're particularly glad to be able to present The Thinkers photo exhibition by
@davidllada
at
#SunwaySitges
. From the 1st edition of our tournament we hoped to have him here one day, despite knowing that his obligations at
@FIDE_chess
keep him busy, so finally a piece of him! 📸
Playing table tennis and table football after the round is already a tradition at
#SunwaySitges
. And Indian players are not only strong playing chess! 🇮🇳🏓