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✳️ Maqsoodlou's draw against the world chess champion ✳️ According to Shahr Plus, in the fifth round of the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Parham Maqsoodlou, Iran's number one chess player, faced Ding Liren, the Chinese world chess champion, and was able to stop his opponent. Maqsoodlou, who won the tournament with a rating of 2740, while he tied against his opponent, the Chinese chess player had a rating of 2780. In the first round of this tournament, Maqsoodlou tied with an Indian chess player and lost to Alireza Firouzja in the second round. Ira's number one chess player succumbed to defeat in the third and fourth rounds. Maqsoodlou lost one point against the world chess champion by drawing in the fifth round of this tournament, so that he still stands in the 14th place of this tournament. The 86th Tata Steel tournament will be held in the Netherlands from January 13 to 28 with the participation of 14 chess players. The leader of this tournament is Anish Giri with 4 points. ✳️ Appointment of the technical committee members of the Chess Federation ✳️ According to Ilna and quoted by the website of the Chess Federation, with the proposal of Asghar Golizadeh, the head of the technical committee and the approval of Shadi Pareder, the head of the chess federation, the members of the technical committee of this federation were introduced as follows: 1- Grand Master Asghar Golizadeh (head of the committee) 2- International referee Mehrdad Pahlavanzadeh 3- The great master Poriya Drini 4- Grand Master Shahin Lerpari Zanganeh 5- Professor Fideh Mohammadreza Afshari 6- Professor Fideh Behrouz Moradi 7- Abbas Khakpour ✳️Prider: I will do whatever is necessary for "Kramnik" to be in the national chess team✳️ Kramnik is considered a very big name in chess and seems to have an acceptable image among prominent Iranian chess players such as Parham Maqsoodlou, Amin Tabatabai, etc. The issue of Kramnik's presence in Iran was raised for the first time by Shahram Azimi, the former head of the federation. In an interview with Tasnim news agency on December 15, he said: "The opinion of the Minister of Sports is positive about using the knowledge of prominent coaches. Part of the financial resources have already been secured and we are securing another part to save them for the foreign coach. Negotiations have also been conducted by the manager of the national teams, and his talks with "Kramnik", a famous Russian coach, are being followed up until we reach the definite time of his presence. God willing, the expenses will be covered and we will witness the presence of this well-known coach in the world of chess in the new year." With the change of the head of the Chess Federation, there was no change in the approach of using Kramnik to guide the national players of our country. Shadi Prider, as a complete chess figure who is also supported by many chess players, is now a supervisor in the federation and continues to follow up the issue of Kramnik's presence. Of course, according to Prader, changes have been made in the presence of this coach. In an interview with Tasnim news agency, Prider said: "From the day I came to the federation, I told Alireza Shafiei, the manager of the national teams, to continue to follow up Kramnik's presence in Iran. I was in favor of Kramnik's presence from the beginning and I will do whatever is necessary to finance his presence. He continued: "A few days ago, we found out that Kramnik's time is full, and due to the fact that he became the assistant of one of the famous chess players in the world candidacy tournament, he cannot come to Iran at the moment." The issue of his presence has been stopped for now, and of course negotiations will continue so that if the conditions are met, he will be with the team for the World Olympics. We welcome his presence. In response to the financial issues in recruiting this coach, he said: Any coach that the manager of the announcement teams says that the children want, I will arrange and bring money from under the rock.