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The 2022 World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships take place in Almaty (Kazakhstan) between Sunday, the 25th of December and run through until Friday, the 30th of December.

The 21st edition of the Prague Chess Open will take place from 6-13 January 2023 at the Olympik Hotel Prague, Czech Republic. The event will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with time control of 90 minutes for 30 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the end of the game and 30 seconds increment starting from move one.

Chessdom will follow the event with daily news and will broadcast games live:

Reigning World Champion in classical chess Magnus Carlsen is on track for another crown, as Tan Zhonyi comes on top of a three-way tie for first place in the Women’s Rapid

The second day of the World Rapid and Blitz championships saw four rounds played in both the Open and the Women’s section.

The Open Rapid

The Cracovia International Chess Festival 2022 is taking place in Krakow, Poland from 27 December to 4 January. The event will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system with the time control of 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. 

Cracovia International Chess Festival 2022 – LIVE games:

The Cracovia International Chess Festival 2022 kicks off today in Krakow, Poland. The event will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system with the time control of 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. 68 players registered for the event, and the top seeds are Tomasz Warkomski, Evgeny Zanan, and Pranesh M.

Starting list of players – Cracovia International Chess Festival 2022:

The 50th edition of the Rilton Cup, Sweden’s biggest open tournament, takes place from December 27 to January 5 in Stockholm, Sweden. The event will be part of the FIDE Circuit, a new qualification path to the Candidates Tournament.

In the post-game interview of the FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship 2022 Round 7, Polish grandmaster GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda said that he is doing okay so far in the event. He explained that he had a tense game against Abdusattorov at the start of the second Rapid day adding that he enjoys shorter time controls. “The shorter time control is, the better I feel. (…) Classical chess is the type I like least to be honest.

GM Eric Hansen announced today on his official twitter account that he decided to withdraw from the FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship 2022 for medical reasons. Hansen explained that he developed aggressive flu-like symptoms overnight and that he will decide in 2 days if he will compete in the Blitz Championship.

41st edition of Ludwik Zamenhof Memorial B is taking place from 27 – 31 December 2022 in Bialystok, Poland. It is an 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Aliaksei Hryharovich, Zakhar Bogdanov, Marcin Pilzak, Jakub Suliborski, Wojciech Smieszek, Pawel Stankiewicz, Ignat Bogdanov, Maciej Adamczewski, Ryszard Kasperek, Maciej Podgorski, Pawel Kozlowski, etc.

41st edition of Ludwik Zamenhof Memorial A is taking place from 27 – 31 December 2022 in Bialystok, Poland. It is an 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Vitaliy Bernadskiy, Vidmantas Malisauskas, Bartlomiej Heberla, Szymon Gumularz, Pawel Teclaf, Igor Janik, Danyyil Dvirnyy, Tomasz Markowski, Jakub Kosakowski, Jan Klimkowski, etc.

You can also see 41st Ludwik Zamenhof Memorial B 2022 .