DHis best German chess player Elizabeth Pachz In the future, he may be the first German to win the title of Master. The 36-year-old Berliner finished second in the World Cup qualifiers in Riga on Sunday. For this, she not only won a prize of $15,250, but also won the third place in the Grand Master.
At the age of 16, she had already won the subordinate title of Women’s Grand Master. Twenty years later, she is now the first German woman to win the highest life-long title of chess and the fortieth woman in the world. Against Kazakh Bibissara, Assaubajewa Pähtz achieved the necessary victory in the final round, and then talked about the “match of my life”.
Vincent Keymer also continued to climb to the top of the world in Riga. The 16-year-old teenager scored 7 points in 11 rounds, almost entirely against a higher-rated opponent. The new German champion ranked fifth among more than one hundred grand masters and received a prize of US$16,773.
A few weeks after finishing second in the European Championship, Keymer even had the opportunity to participate in one of the two places in the World Cup Candidates Championship in Riga until the final round. These belong to the 18-year-old Alireza Firouzja, who recently started playing for France and climbed to fifth place in the world rankings, while Fabiano Caruana from the United States ranks third in the world rankings.
