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Galina Strutinskaya and Vladimir Okhotnik are 2011 World Senior Champions

The 21st World Senior Chess Championships were held in Opatija, Croatia, from November 14th to November 27th.

GM Bojan Kurajica grabbed the lead following a victory against GM Davoring Komljenovic in the ninth round of the Open Championship.

Simon played the World Junior championship in 1965, he also won the Spanish Junior championship and the Spanish Senior Championship.

Vaisser was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 1949 and since 1991 he lives in France. He is currently playing the 21st World...

GM Miso Cebalo, from Croatia, lives in Zagreb. He won the world senior championship 2009 in Condino (Italy).

Total number of players is 241, 201 in the Open section and 40 (absolute record) in the Women tournament.

Open section has about 210 entries while the women tournament is breaking the records with 50 participants.