Continental women's chess championship with 4 players on top

HAVANA, Cuba, May 9 (ACN) Four women players, two of them hosts, the top of the Women's Continental Chess Championship of the Americas, which has already had its first three rounds at the Habana Libre Hotel in this capital.

Cubans Lisandra Ordaz and Yerisbel Miranda won the attention of the girls in a contest with more than 70 participants that distributes quotas for the next world championship.

Lisandra defeated in the third round the Canadian Svitlana Demchenko, while Yerisbel beat Argentina's Maria Florencia Fernandez.

The other two finishers at the top are Argentina's Candela Francisco and Chile's Javiera Belen Gomez, who beat two representatives of the island, Ineymig Hernandez and Patricia Hernandez, in that order.

The continental event celebrates at the same time two types of tournaments, the avant-garde reigns, and the rapid games tournament, which is also in its third round.

The groups of the international Capablanca in Memoriam tournament are being played at the hotel and the panoramas are different in each one.

Top shared by Brazilian Alexandr Fier and Danish Jonas Bjerre, who is reigns in the Elite, the highest-ranking segment with 10 grandmasters, and that this Tuesday will have its sixth round of the nine scheduled
In the Open, with 143 competitors, the vanguard is shared by six men: the Canadian Bator Sambuev, Spaniard Jose Fernando Cuenca and the hosts

Jose Fernando Cuenca and the hosts Ermes Espinosa, Camilo Gomez, Roberto Elias and Cristian Vitier, all owners of five units.

For the Seniors, things are easier in terms of leadership,Cuban Juan Carlos Perez is in the lead with 4.5 points out of five possible and is looking for the winning title of a group that gathers over 60 years of age.