{"id":41973,"date":"2025-12-18T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/?p=41973"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:00:40","slug":"kirill-chukavin-and-margareth-olde-triumph-at-2025-estonian-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/kirill-chukavin-and-margareth-olde-triumph-at-2025-estonian-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirill Chukavin and Margareth Olde triumph at 2025 Estonian Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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FM Kirill Chukavin<\/strong> and WIM Margareth Olde<\/strong> emerged victorious the 2025 Estonian Championship finals held from December 11\u201318 at the Paul Keres Chess House in Tallinn.<\/p>

For the second consecutive year, both the Open and Women\u2019s championships were contested in a knockout format, featuring 16 players in the Open section and 8 in the Women\u2019s section.<\/p>

In the Open section, 23-year-old FM Kirill Chukavin captured his first senior national title by defeating three-time champion GM Meelis Kanep (last year\u2019s bronze medallist) in the final match. IM Ilja Sirosh completed the podium, winning the match for bronze.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Final Standings \u2013 Open Section<\/strong><\/p>

  1. FM Kirill Chukavin<\/span><\/li>
  2. GM Meelis Kanep<\/span><\/li>
  3. IM Ilja Sirosh<\/span><\/li><\/ol>

    In the Women\u2019s section, WIM Margareth Olde successfully defended her title. The final match against WFM Sofia Blokhin was an extremely tense battle, with classical games rapid and blitz tie-breaks all ending in 1-1 draws. Olde ultimately prevailed in the decisive Armageddon game.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Final Standings \u2013 Women\u2019s Section<\/strong><\/p>

    1. WIM Margareth Olde<\/span><\/li>
    2. WFM Sofia Blokhin<\/span><\/li>
    3. WFM Regina Narva<\/span><\/li><\/ol>

      Complete results (both Open and Women\u2019s)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

      Photos: Estonian Chess Federation (www.maleliit.ee<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      FM Kirill Chukavin and WIM Margareth Olde emerged victorious the 2025 Estonian Championship finals held from December 11\u201318 at the Paul Keres Chess House in Tallinn. For the second consecutive year, both the Open and Women\u2019s championships were contested in a knockout format, featuring 16 players in the Open section and 8 in the Women\u2019s section. In the Open section, 23-year-old FM Kirill Chukavin captured his first senior national title by defeating three-time champion GM Meelis Kanep (last year\u2019s bronze medallist) in the final match. IM Ilja Sirosh completed the podium, winning the match for bronze. Final Standings \u2013 Open Section FM Kirill Chukavin GM Meelis Kanep IM Ilja Sirosh In the Women\u2019s section, WIM Margareth Olde successfully defended her title. The final match against WFM Sofia Blokhin was an extremely tense battle, with classical games rapid and blitz tie-breaks all ending in 1-1 draws. Olde ultimately prevailed in the decisive Armageddon game. Final Standings \u2013 Women\u2019s Section WIM Margareth Olde WFM Sofia Blokhin WFM Regina Narva Complete results (both Open and Women\u2019s) Photos: Estonian Chess Federation (www.maleliit.ee)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[250,297],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-41973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-estonia","tag-national-championship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41981,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41973\/revisions\/41981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41973"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=41973"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=41973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}