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The FIDE World Team Championship 2022, aka the small Chess Olympiad, will take place from 19 to 26 November in Jerusalem, Israel. It will be a twelve team championship. Xinhua confirmed the participating teams – USA (reigning champion), Israel (home team), Azerbaijan, The Netherlands, China, Ukraine, France, Poland, South Africa, India, Uzbekistan, and Spain. See the full news here

The FIDE World Team Championship 2022, aka the small Chess Olympiad, will take place from 19 to 26 November in Jerusalem, Israel. It will be a twelve team championship, including the best team by rating from each of the four Continents (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe), five teams representing federations with the highest average ratings of the best four players in the FIDE Rapid January 2022 Rating List, the home team, and two teams nominated by the FIDE President.

Speed chess is defined as blitz chess, lightning chess, or bullet chess. Esipenko and Gelfand bring it to another level in this #TweetOftheDay by Olimpiu Urcan aka Olimpiu Di Luppi.

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The first day of play saw two rounds of two-game mini-matches in each group and the contours of the competition beginning to emerge. The big questions were who would adapt best to the challenges of the Fischer Random variant and if there would be any unexpectedly good form from the newcomers to the event. Replay the games of day 1

The Asian Continental Chess Championship 2022 is starting this October 26 in New Delhi, India. A total of 93 players will compete in the open section, with Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa as top seeded. His main competitors are the Fargernes open winner S.L.

The Asian Women Continental Chess Championship 2022 is starting this October 26 in New Delhi, India. Tania Sachdev is top seeded in the event, where 48 titled players, 14 WGMs, and 7 IMs are participating. Her main competitors are Davaademberel Nomin-Erdene, Agrawal Vantika, Padmini Rout, Bhakti Kulkarni, Eesha Karavade, Vo Thi Kim Phung, Deshmukh Divya, Soumya Swaminathan, etc. Scroll down for the full participants list

The Asian Continental Chess Championship 2022 is starting this October 26 in New Delhi, India. With Pragg and Tania Sachdev as top seeded, the event will be daily live on Chessdom.com

Hans Niemann filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court (Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division).

The ground-breaking Challengers Chess Tour reaches its climax with the end-of-season Final Four event this weekend featuring four of the top rising talents in the game. Grandmasters Andrey Esipenko, Pranav Venkatesh, Raunak Sadhwani and 13-year-old International Master Ihor Samunenkov will bid for the title in a two-day blitz knockout.

Wesley So, Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Hjorvar Steinn Gretarsson, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Matthias Blübaum, Vladimir Fedoseev, and Olympic Champion Nodirbek Abdusattorov will compete in the 2022 edition of the FIDE Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022. The event will take place at the Berjaya Reykjavik Natura Hotel, Iceland, 25-30 October 2022.