The Latvian Chess Championship 2022 and Latvian Women’s Chess Championship 2022 took place from April 27 – May 4 in Riga. GM Ilmars Starostits convincingly won the men’s championship scoring 8/9 points. Starostits became the Latvian Champion for the second time in his career, 20 years after his first National triumph in 2002. WGM Laura […]

The 44th Chess Olympiad starts on July 28 in Chennai, India. A good three months in advance, the German Chess Federation disclosed the team composition for the Open section: Vincent Keymer (2667) Matthias Bluebaum (2663) Rasmus Svane (2651) Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu (2638) Dmitrij Kollars (2635) The German team will be captained by Jan Gustafsson who […]

The famous chess streamer and the women’s grandmaster Qiyu Zhou (AkaNemsko) will be the part of Canada Women’s Team for the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai. Zhou made her debut at the Women’s Chess Olympiad in 2014 in Tromso, Norway, and competed for Canada at the Women’s Chess Olympiad ever since. In 2014 in Tromso, she […]

Leading off the 2022 Grand Chess Tour will be the Superbet Chess Classic held from 3-15 May in Bucharest, Romania. Following last year’s popular classical framework, the Grand Chess Tour Romania 2022 hosts ten players competing in a classical round-robin struggle for the $350,000 in prize money. The novelty is that the Grand Chess Tour events become part...

The 2022 Romanian Grand Prix series kicked off with the Super Chess Rapid tournament which took place from April 30 to May 1 in Bucharest, shortly before the start of the 1st Grand Chess Tour event in Romania. More than 190 players from 14 countries battled it out through 10 rounds, fighting for a total […]

Three months before the start of the 44th Chess Olympiad 2022, the compositions of Indian teams have been announced. Two teams in each Open and Women’s section will represent India in Chennai from July 28 to August 10. The All India Chess Federation (AICF) assigned former world champion Viswanathan Anand and the chess legend Boris Gelfand […]

The National Chess Championship of Malawi took place at the Grand Palace Hotel in Mzuzu from 14th to 18th April 2022. The event served as a qualification for the 44th Chess Olympiad with the top 5 players in each category making it to the national team. Twenty-six players battled it out in the Open and 13 in the […]

In this week’s show there was no guest, just myself and Andrew Martin showing some games with interesting openings. The first one has Jim Plaskett wielding the Benko Gambit, the second is the surprising 6.h4 against the Najdorf and the third is an Evans Gambit, with Hikaru Nakamura showing how to play the Black side: … Continue reading "Master Chess Web Show (12)" The post Master...

The Japan Chess Championship 2022 was held from April 30 to May 4 in Tokyo with participation of 63 players and a total prize fund of 100.000 yen. FM Mirai Aoshima became the sole Winner of the event after a dramatic finish with score of 7.5/9 points. Three top seeds entered the last round with […]

The Sri Lanka National Chess Championships 2022, with a half-million rupees prize fund, took place from April 23 to May 1 in the Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research Institute, Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo. Both tournaments, organized by the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka, were 14-players round-robins with classical time control.  The reigning national champion, 17-year-old FM Susal de […]

The 27th edition of the TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament takes place from 3-9 May at the Malmo Live conference centre in Malmo, Sweden. Eight players play the seven rounds robin round tournament and the battlefield is led by GM Jorden van Foreest. The participants list: GM Jorden van Foreest GM Michael Adams GM David Navara GM Alexei […]

“Choices are the hinges of destiny” Pythagoras We’ve been rotating between different formats for the club tournament between rapid chess, chess 960, three check chess or crazy house. Now we are in the middle of a rapid chess one and last round saw an interesting game being played. The opening phase went like this: White … Continue reading "Quick Decisions (8)" The post Quick...

Three months before the start of the 44th Chess Olympiad 2022, the compositions of Indian teams have been announced. Two teams in each Open and Women’s section will represent India in Chennai from July 28 to August 10. Indian Team A (Open section): Vidit Santosh Gujrathi Pentala Harikrishna Arjun Erigaisi Srinath Narayanan Krishnan Sasikiran The […]

The 501(c)3 US Chess Federation’s 2022 National Middle School (K-8) Championship took place from April 28-May 1, 2022 at the Gaylord Texan Hotel and Resort in Grapevine, Texas. A total of 931 players from 35 states competed. This tournament was formerly known as the National Junior High School (K-9) Championship. The individual K-8 Co-Champions are […]