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Nakamura – Nepomniachtchi is the final at the FIDE Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022. Ian Nepomniachtchi gained Fischer Random revenge for his unsuccessful classical title challenge against Magnus Carlsen last year, and immovable object Hikaru Nakamura toppled the irresistible force of the preliminaries, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, to set up a title match few predicted.

Grandmaster Anish Giri brings you a robust repertoire which seizes Black’s half of the board before move ten — so you’d have all the space and time in the world to set up the winning breakthrough. If there’s one thing chess engines and super-grandmaster games have taught us, it’s that space wins games. And why won’t it? When you control more than half of the board, your pieces play to their full potential.

The Fischer Random World Chess Championship 2022 will have a new champion. Wesley So did not manage to go out of the groups, finishing 3rd in the group stage. However, this takes away just a pinch of the excitement, as the semi finals will see the participants in the last World Chess Championship – the champion Carlsen and the challenger Nepomniachtchi – the Olympic Champion Abdusattorov, and five time US Champion and one of the most creative players Hikaru Nakamura.

The Asian Continental Chess Championship 2022 got off to a rousing start at Leela Ambience Convention Hotel on Wednesday.

The pairings are the simplest aspect of today’s group stages, as the players face off four times against the same opponent, in two mini-matches, as the contest transitions into the return matches from rounds 3 to 4. Even though the match-ups repeat, the mini-matches were played from two different starting positions. Replay the games of day 2

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.