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The 2022 Chess.com Global Championship (CGC) events started this May determining 64 players of the knockout phase. The knockout phase starts on September 14 and ends on October 9 featuring 32 players who qualified from the Play-in chess.com tournaments and 32 invited players. 64 players are divided in eight groups, and the Winners of each group will move on to the CGC Finals which will take place from 2-9 November in Toronto, Canada, while the remaining 56 players share the total prize fund of $440,000 for the CGC Knockout.

The 2022 Chess.com Global Championship (CGC) events started this May determining 64 players of the knockout phase. The knockout phase starts on September 14 and ends on October 9 featuring 32 players who qualified from the Play-in chess.com tournaments and 32 invited players. 64 players are divided in eight groups, and the Winners of each group will move on to the CGC Finals which will take place from 2-9 November in Toronto, Canada, while the remaining 56 players share the total prize fund of $440,000 for the CGC Knockout.

The International round-robin tournament “Chess stars 2022” will be held from 29 September – 5 October in Moscow, Russia.

The Champions showdown 2022 – Chess 9LX Fischer random tournament will take place from 13-16 September in Saint Louis Chess Club.

The top international chess superstars are set to battle it out over the board from September 13-16 in Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX (aka Chess 960 Fischer Random).

The top international chess superstars are set to battle it out over the board from September 13-16 in Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX (aka Chess 960 Fischer Random), which will feature the world’s top Grandmasters including legendary 13th World Champion Garry Kasparov, World Number 3, <

The top international chess superstars are set to battle it out over the board from September 13-16 in Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX (aka Chess 960 Fischer Random), which will feature the world’s top Grandmasters including legendary 13th World Champion Garry Kasparov, World Number 3, <

Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan is currently 88th in the world and one of India’s top Grandmasters. Just recently he won in a brilliant fashion the third leg of the MPL Indian Chess Tour, qualifying to the Julius Baer Generation Cup. However, S.L. Narayanan will skip the event, “It is indeed a big opportunity for me to play in such a prestigious global online event as the Champions Chess Tour.

This year’s AGM (Annual General Meeting) of the English Chess Federation takes place on Saturday October 15th starting at 1.30pm at the Simister Hall, The Signing Tree Conference Centre, Ladywood Road, Birmingham B16 8SZ; The Annual General Meeting will conduct the election of Directors, the Chairman of the Council, the FIDE Delegate and members of Standing Committees.

Nominations for election at the AGM

Chair of Council
David Eustace
Nominated by Non-Executive Director Stephen Woodhouse, Past Chair of Council

The US Chess Championship 2022 is going to take place October 4-14 in the Saint Louis Chess Club. It will feature 14 of the strongest US chess players. The event boasts a prize fund of 250 000$ with additional $64,000 “Fischer Bonus Prize” available if a player finishes with a perfect score. The current US Chess Champion is Wesley So and he is going to defend his title in 2022.