This is the first time that Cuba has hosted an American Continental Women’s Chess Championship, which has taken a long time considering the rich history of the sport of checkers in our country.
In parallel with the Capablanca International Memorial, the competition began last Saturday at the Habana Libre Hotel and its competitive program includes three tournaments, of which only the blitz ended on the first day with the victory of the Ecuadorian Anaha Ortiz, accompanied by the Peruvian Daisy Corey and the nationalized Ukrainian Canadian Svetlana Demchenko.
The Quick Play segment will end today with the last two rounds. After the fifth capture, Pinar del Río’s Lisandra Ordaz took first place with four points and a better tiebreak than Maria Florencia Fernandez of Argentina.
It was Ordaz, the national champion of 2020, the best representative of the West Indies in the classics competition (played according to the Swiss system in nine rounds), after the first seven duels for each chess player, with three successes and four tables, she took the second position with five lines, yielding to the Argentinean Candela Belen Gekambur, the author of six units.
Vueltabahera Erisbel Miranda and Janiela Forgas of Santiago, members of the island’s latest Olympic team, and the indomitable Oleini Linares also scored five points each.
The Continental has 70 chess players from 20 countries, with Cuba (26 athletes), Costa Rica (six) and Argentina, Canada, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay and Peru being the most represented with three indicators. Monarch will receive the only controversial ticket to the next FIDE Women’s World Championship, which includes Ordaz and Miranda from Pinar del Río.
At the end of this edition was the eighth round of the event, which will end this Friday.
Source: Juventud Rebelde