The Kenya Olympic Chess Team has been chosen for the upcoming 44th Chess Olympiad 2022, which will take place in Chennai, India, from 28th July to 10th August 2022. LIVE now: Grand Chess Tour Romania 2022 / TePe Sigeman & Co 2022 / Mitropa Chess Cup 2022 The grueling selection process contained three phases and culminated in the final 3rd […]

The Queens’ Online Chess Festival 2022, a series of continental women’s online blitz tournaments, starts on June 05, 2022.LIVE now: Grand Chess Tour Romania 2022 / TePe Sigeman & Co 2022 / Mitropa Chess Cup 2022 The event is organized by FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess in cooperation with FIDE Events Commission, and it is supported by the...

The Panamanian Men’s and Women’s Chess Championships 2022 took place from April 27 to May 5 in the Creole Chess Club, Panama. Both tournaments were 10-player round-robins with classical time control. LIVE now: Grand Chess Tour Romania 2022 / TePe Sigeman & Co 2022 / Mitropa Chess Cup 2022 Despite suffering an unexpected defeat at the hands...

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. Read more: India teams for Chess Olympiad 2022 announced The All India Chess Federation (AICF) assigned former world […]

English grandmaster, chess writer and two-time British Chess Champion, Matthew Sadler, wrote an article for ChessMoves about maintaining your strength as an amateur player. LIVE now: Grand Chess Tour Romania 2022 / TePe Sigeman & Co 2022 / Mitropa Chess Cup 2022 Herewith is enclosed the complete article by GM Matthew Sadler: Chatting with Mike […]

Round 2 of the Grand Chess Tour Romania 2022 started in an interesting fashion with a surprising opening choice by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (MVL) who chose the QGA (Queen’s Gambit Accepted) against Wesley So. Although four of the five games ended in a draw, Mamedyarov – Rapport and Firouzja – Nepomniachtchi were fiery dynamic games that […]

Today, May 6th 2022, the Appeal Chamber of the FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Commission (EDC) formed by its Chairperson Mr. Francois Strydom, and members Mr. Khaled Arfa and Mr. David Hater, announced its decision to dismiss the appeal presented by Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin.  The dismissal of this appeal confirms the 6-month ban that was imposed by […]

The European Youth Chess Championship 2022 will take place from 5th November (arrival day) – 15th November (departure day) in Antalya, Turkey. The event will be played in 6 age categories: U8, U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18, open and girls sections separately, in 9 rounds, swiss system, with time control of 90 minutes for […]

The 13th World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov gave an exclusive interview during the second round of Grand Chess Tour Romania 2022. Kasparov shared his impressions about the first 2022 Grand Chess Tour event and the opening ceremony which took place in the Romanian Parliament: “It was spectacular! Chess now is back to where it belongs… […]

Following detailed discussions with all parties concerned regarding the new wave of Covid19 appearing in China, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Executive Board decided to postpone the 19th Asian Games, which were scheduled to be held in Hangzhou from 10 to 25 September 2022. The name and the emblem of the Games will remain […]

I was going to play out our long running endgame from the last few months this week. However, I decided to discuss some additional middle-game principles instead. The reason for this is because you should have enough information at hand to play last week’s position out yourself. At some point, I will play through the … Continue reading "A Foundation for Beginners Sixty" The post A...

The 5th edition of the Sharjah Chess Masters international tournament will be held from 20th-30th May in Sharjah Cultural & Chess Club. The event will be held as an Invitational Tournament, with (maximum) 80 players of FIDE standard rating of 2300 and above, as of May 2022 FIDE rating list.  Out of these 80 players, […]

The 2022 Open and Women’s Chess Championships of North Macedonia concluded yesterday in Skopje. The events simultaneously took place in Hotel Continental, being played from April 29 – May 5. 59 players competed in the 9 round swiss system Open tournament, while 12 women played the 7 rounds swiss system Women’s Championship. IM Filip Pancevski […]

The Grand Chess Tour kicked off with its first event of the tour –  the 2022 Superbet Chess Classic – a 10-player classical round-robin event taking place in Bucharest, Romania. While most fans and the commentators were keeping their eyes on the game between GM Caruana (World Number 4) – GM Firouzja (World Number 3), […]

The Grand Chess Tour Romania 2022 commenced today in Bucharest, Hungary. Following last year’s popular classical framework, the event gathers ten players competing in a classical round-robin struggle for the $350,000 in prize money. Replay the Round 1 games Fabiano Caruana, Richard Rapport and Leinier Dominguez Perez shared their opinion about the Romanian Parliament venue which...