Alexey Sarana Wins European Chess Championship
GM Alexey Sarana won the European Individual Chess Championship on Monday in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. The 23-year-old Russian grandmaster, who played under the FIDE flag, edged out GMs Kirill Shevchenko (Ukraine) and Daniel Dardha (Belgium) on tiebreak. The three players all finished on 8.5 points out of 11 rounds in what was a large Swiss …