{"id":43485,"date":"2026-02-09T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/?p=43485"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:54:30","slug":"estonian-team-championships-diagonaal-repeats-victory-kaksikodad-claims-overall-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/estonian-team-championships-diagonaal-repeats-victory-kaksikodad-claims-overall-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonian Team Championships: Diagonaal repeats victory, Kaksikodad claims overall crown"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The 2026 Estonian Chess Team Championships concluded in Tallinn this past weekend. Held from February 6\u20138 at the Paul Keres Chess House, the competition featured fourteen teams in the Open tournament and four in the Women\u2019s section.<\/p>

MK Kaksikodad (pictured below) claimed first place in the combined standings, lifting the club\u2019s historic traveling trophy \u2013 established in 1991 \u2013 for the first time. Kaksikodad shared first place in the Women\u2019s tournament and finished third in the Open. SK Reval-Sport, which had won the cup the two previous years, did not participate.<\/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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SK Diagonaal (pictured on the top) won the Open event for the second consecutive year, scoring nine match points out of ten. Their lineup included Estonia\u2019s top-rated player, GM Aleksandr Volodin, along with Dmitri Petrov, Valeri Golubenko, Vyacheslav Koop, and Andrei Skladtshikov.<\/p>

The runner-up, Tonu Truusi MKK, netted\u00a0an<\/strong>\u00a0equal amount of match points but finished half a game point behind the champions. Their team featured International Masters Sergei Zjukin and Andrei Shishkov, FIDE Master Ilja Haitin, Marti Medar, and Georg Abozenko.<\/p>

Third place went to the first team of MK Kaksikodad (FIDE Master Oliver Wartiovaara, Georg Aleksander Pedoson, Candidate Masters Tormi Kull and Daniil Shnurov, Aaron Rajandu, Markus Hansson, and Karl Kristofer Orgse).<\/p>

Final standings \u2013 Open<\/a><\/strong><\/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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In the Women\u2019s tournament, three teams shared first place, each scoring four match points out of six and finishing equal on all tie-break criteria. As a result, the titles\u00a0were<\/span><\/span>\u00a0awarded to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>MK\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Vektor (Women\u2019s FIDE Master Sofia Blokhin, Maria Helena R<\/span><\/span>u<\/span><\/span>diger, and Alexis Miriam Reren),\u00a0<\/span><\/span>MK Kaksikodad<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(Woman Candidate Master Maria Ioanna Haapsal and Leelo Mia Thimm), and Tallinn<\/span><\/span>a MK (Women International Masters Margareth Olde \u2013 the reigning Estonian Women\u2019s Champion \u2013 and Margit Brokko, along with Woman Candidate Master Grete Olde)<\/span><\/span>, which had won the Women\u2019s tournament in the previous two years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

Final standings \u2013 Women<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

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Photo: Karl Erik Olde The 2026 Estonian Chess Team Championships concluded in Tallinn this past weekend. Held from February 6\u20138 at the Paul Keres Chess House, the competition featured fourteen teams in the Open tournament and four in the Women\u2019s section. MK Kaksikodad (pictured below) claimed first place in the combined standings, lifting the club\u2019s historic traveling trophy \u2013 established in 1991 \u2013 for the first time. Kaksikodad shared first place in the Women\u2019s tournament and finished third in the Open. SK Reval-Sport, which had won the cup the two previous years, did not participate. Photo: Photo: Karl Erik Olde SK Diagonaal (pictured on the top) won the Open event for the second consecutive year, scoring nine match points out of ten. Their lineup included Estonia\u2019s top-rated player, GM Aleksandr Volodin, along with Dmitri Petrov, Valeri Golubenko, Vyacheslav Koop, and Andrei Skladtshikov. The runner-up, Tonu Truusi MKK, netted\u00a0an\u00a0equal amount of match points but finished half a game point behind the champions. Their team featured International Masters Sergei Zjukin and Andrei Shishkov, FIDE Master Ilja Haitin, Marti Medar, and Georg Abozenko. Third place went to the first team of MK Kaksikodad (FIDE Master Oliver Wartiovaara, Georg Aleksander Pedoson, Candidate Masters Tormi Kull and Daniil Shnurov, Aaron Rajandu, Markus Hansson, and Karl Kristofer Orgse). Final standings \u2013 Open Photo: Markus Hansson In the Women\u2019s tournament, three teams shared first place, each scoring four match points out of six and finishing equal on all tie-break criteria. As a result, the titles\u00a0were\u00a0awarded to\u00a0MK\u00a0Vektor (Women\u2019s FIDE Master Sofia Blokhin, Maria Helena Rudiger, and Alexis Miriam Reren),\u00a0MK Kaksikodad\u00a0(Woman Candidate Master Maria Ioanna Haapsal and Leelo Mia Thimm), and Tallinna MK (Women International Masters Margareth Olde \u2013 the reigning Estonian Women\u2019s Champion \u2013 and Margit Brokko, along with Woman Candidate Master Grete Olde), which had won the Women\u2019s tournament in the previous two years. Final standings \u2013 Women Estonian Chess Federation’s website:\u00a0https:\/\/maleliit.ee\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43486,"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-43485","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\/43485","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=43485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43493,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43485\/revisions\/43493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43485"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=43485"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=43485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}