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The list of participants in the Rilton Cup included names such as Anand, Bronstein and Mamedov, but in none of these cases was it the ‘original’ chess star who had made it to Sweden to participate in the event.
Oleg Romanishin, on the other hand, is ‘the real deal’: the living legend actually took part in the tournament and achieved a very respectable result with a score of 5/9.
Oleg Romanishin, who turns 73 next Wednesday, belonged to the chess elite 30 years ago
Romanishin is Ukrainian, as is the tournament winner Vitaly Sivuk, although he has been playing for Sweden since 2022. Sivuk made the decisive move towards winning the tournament in round 8 when he clearly defeated then co-leader IM Edvin Trost, a 16-year-old rising star from Sweden.
Master Class Vol.16 - Judit Polgar
In this video course, experts (Pelletier, Marin, Müller and Reeh) examine the games of Judit Polgar. Let them show you which openings Polgar chose to play, where her strength in middlegames were, or how she outplayed her opponents in the endgame.
By this point both contenders had probably realised that 11.f4 was not a good move
