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The German Team Club Championship Girls U20 is taking place from 27-30 December 2022 in Münster.

The German Team Club Championship U20 is taking place from 27-30 December 2022 in Münster. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 7-round Swiss team tournament with participation of Hamburger SK von 1830 eV ( Luis Engel, Tom Frederic Woelk, Henning Holink, Jacob incense, Lennart Meyling, Robert Engel and Michael Kotyk) , Schachgemeinschaft Porz e. V.

The Caplin Hastings Masters is taking place in Hastings. Players receive 100 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 10-round Swiss tournament with participation of Martin Petrov, Bogdan Lalic, Kim Yew Chan, Kamila Hryshchenko, Robert S Eames, Roland Bezuidenhout, Ethan Li, David Flynn, Romain Edouard, Bence Korpa, Sarunas Sulskis, Gabor Nagy, Brandon G I Clarke, Oleg Korneev, etc.

ChessBase India published an interesting video of a situation that appeared yesterday during the 7th round of the World Rapid Chess Championship 2022 in Almaty. It was the game between Vladislav Kovalev and 12-year-old Artem Uskov. The young Russian was in a time trouble and made an illegal move as he wanted to take the opponent’s rook, but put his piece on a wrong square.

The 21st edition of the Prague Chess Open will take place from 6-13 January 2023 at the Olympik Hotel Prague, Czech Republic. The festival features three tournaments: Open A, Open B and Open C, with a prize fund of 50.000 CZK ~ 2.000eur for the main Open A tournament.

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: