A chess player from Turkmenistan took second place at the international tournament “The Road and the Belt”
Chess player from Turkmenistan, international master Saparmurat Atabaev won a silver medal at the 3rd international open tournament “The Road and the Belt”, which was held in Qinhuangdao, China. Saparmurat won 4 games, drew the rest and ultimately scored 6.5 points out of 9 possible. In the second round, Saparmurat was even able to defeat the tournament winner, the young Chinese Huang Renji, who, after losing to Saparmurat, began to win grandmasters one after another and eventually scored 7 points.