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During the match at the Candidates Tournament in Toronto, Nurgyul Salimova, the 20-year-old Bulgarian chess player secured a draw against former world champion Tan Zhongyi of China in the fifth round. With the black pieces, Salimova displayed remarkable composure, earning her third draw of the competition and accumulating 2.5 points overall.

A 15-year-old Turkish chess player has earned the title of grandmaster with his success at the Prague Chess Festival, becoming the youngest player in Türkiye to achieve this title.

Ediz Gürel, who is among the world's top 20 players under the age of 20 in the FIDE Live ELO points ranking, ranks second in the world among players under the age of 16 with 2,571 Live ELO points.

A total of four young Bulgarian chess players found a place among the top 25 of the FIDE world rankings for girls published today.

Nurgyul Salimova fell by one position compared to October and is fourth in the ranking with an ELO of 2412.

Hundreds of children in Istanbul have participated and competed against each other in a chess tournament held with the motive to develop kids' interest in chess and enhance their skills.

The annual chess tournament organized for the fourth time this year by KidZania Istanbul took place with the support of the Turkish Chess Federation.

The Turkish national under-16 chess team has bagged the gold medal at the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Chess Olympiad in Azerbaijan, marking Türkiye's first-ever win.

Constantin Lupulescu, the best rated Romanian chess player, drew with the Frenchman Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, world number 12, on Tuesday, in Bucharest, in the fourth round of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2021 tournament, from the Grand Chess Tour. The other Romanian in the tournament, Bogdan Deac (19 years old), got defeated by the Russian Aleksandr Grishciuk.