Thiago Moises: UFC on ESPN 26 'chess match' with Islam Makhachev a great opportunity
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Thiago Moises sees double the incentive in his first UFC headliner against the highly touted Islam Makhachev.
It's a busy time on the chess calendar, as if the chess world is trying to make up for last year (though last year was also packed with top-level events, albeit online rapid and/or blitz events), and in addition to the Goldmoney event that finished last week (won by Levon Aronian...
You may remember the recent Grand Chess Tour event in Paris, where Etienne Bacrot and Vladimir Kramnik split the rapid & blitz duties. Bacrot, a ratings underdog and no longer a member of the elite, scored surprisingly well in the rapid, but Kramnik had a very poor result in the blitz.