Simultan has always fascinated spectators: "One against all" is the most used motto and wherever it is organised, you are sure that even the most distracted and hasty passer-by will stop for a few minutes to take a look, to try to understand how it is possible that an already difficult game against a single player can be played against many.

An exceptional simultaneist considered by the chess world to be the best Swedish player ever, he obtained exceptional results from the mid-seventies to all of the eighties, and it was he who inflicted the first defeat as world champion on Anatoly Karpov at the Milan Tournament of 1975. He also plays correspondence specialties in which he reached the first position in the international ranking.

And yesterday evening in Piazza della Bollente, the most fascinating of Acqui Terme, the simultaneous performance by GM Ulf Andersson took place outdoors.

Fourteen players lose 

Six players draw:

• Cesare Predomini
• Ugo Cattaneo
• Federico Venturino
• Andrea Aimone
• Andrea Zavattero
• Alessio Arata

The English GM John Nunn stopped the German Matthias Kierzek who was on the run 4/4 and so now there are three players in the lead (4.5/5) and two of them, John Nunn and the Slovakian GM Lubomir Ftacnick, they will clash today: if there is a victory, whoever achieves it will have placed a nice brick for the title.

Among the 5 players of the group that chases with 4/5 the Italian Master Carlo Luciani, author of an excellent tournament so far.

Also among the Italians yesterday was an exciting performance by Master Marco Ubezio who stopped GM Nona Gaprindashvili on the draw.

The women have been included in the Open tournament and therefore the final result will depend on the matches which will certainly not all be between them.

At the moment, two players are in the lead with 3.5/5 Georgian GM Nona Gaprindashvili and German WGM Fischdick Gisela.

Georgian GM Zurab Sturua (2022 world senior champion) and our IM Fabrizio Bellia (2021 European senior champion) are alone in the lead with 4.5/5 and today, even in this tournament, the direct clash could already be decisive.

We report in the small group that chases the Italian IM Daniel Contin with 4/5.

These 4 will play with each other today and we'll see who really will apply for the final rush.

Here we have a 9-round Round Robin and for the moment Greek WGM Marina Makropoulou and French WIM Martine Dubois are in the lead with 3/5.