Athletistic/ Others. Recently, Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, hosted the Chess World Cup. Its results were summarized by the President of the Russian Chess Federation, Andrei Filatov.

– Congratulations to all chess fans on the end of the historic World Cup. Magnus Carlsen won a magnificent victory and made chess history as the first grandmaster to win all major competitions. But he is especially happy that our Alexandra Goryachkina became the winner of the women’s tournament of this historic World Cup. By the way, for the first time a chess player from an Asian federation became the winner of the World Cup, Filatov said according to TASS.

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