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Nurgyul Salimova is the only one to represent Bulgaria at the FIDE Candidates Tournament starting today in Toronto, having earned her place there with a brilliant performance at the World Cup last September, when she reached the final, but lost in a dramatic battle against Russian Alexandra Goryachkina.
The tournament starts on April 3 with an official ceremony and the games start on April 4th. Nurgyul Salimova starts the tournament with Elo 2432. In the first round Salimova will face Anna Muzychuk (Ukraine).
Ivan Cheparinov scored a victory in the eighth round of the European Individual Chess Championship in Petrovac, Montenegro. The Bulgarian grandmaster played with the black pieces and secured a brilliant win over Ukrainian Ihor Samunenkov. The..
The Bulgarian national team won a 1-0 victory versus Luxembourg in the penultimate match from the C3 group of the Nations League. The Bulgarian footballers performed up to par in the first half, but the second half was a challenge for them,..
Bulgarian open-water swimmer Tsanko Tsankov swam one of the most difficult swimming marathons in the Ocean's Seven, his manager Nikolai Iliev reported. Tsankov swam the longest of the seven marathons, from the Molokai Island to Oahu in the..
The famous athlete Stefka Kostadinova was chosen by the Bulgarian Olympic Committee to represent Bulgaria at the photo exhibition opened at the European..
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