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After Hans Niemann defeated the World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in the third round of the Sinquefield Cup 2022, Carlsen decided to withdraw from the tournament without detailed explanations.

Hans Niemann’s fans gathered today in front of the Saint Louis Chess Club upon the start of the 8th penultimate round of the Sinquefield Cup 2022. A few girls were standing in front of the building to show support to Hans Niemann holding banners with different signs: “We love Hans”, “Checkmate Magnus”, “Hans has cool hair”, “Hans has an awesome accent”.

Chinese grandmaster Ding Liren is now the number one Rapid player in the World! Ding Liren currently plays the Chinese Chess league which includes combined rapid and classical events. Scoring 3.5/4 points in the first four rounds, Ding Liren earned 2.6 rapid ELO points to overpass Magnus Carlsen on the live rapid rating list. The Chinese grandmaster now has a live rapid rating of 2836.6 while Carlsen holds second place with a 2834 rapid rating.

Famous grandmaster and FIDE Senior Trainer Ivan Sokolov is one of the lecturers at the FIDE Training Seminar that is ongoing in Mamaia, Romania, concurrently with the FIDE World Youth U14, U16 and U18 Chess Championships. The seminar takes place from 7-12 September, in English language, with GM Ivan Sokolov and GM R.B. Ramesh as main instructors.

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Are you a university student or faculty member who is already researching chess or who would like to begin researching a chess topic? The Chessable Research Awards are for you! Designed to inspire new chess research or aid ongoing chess research, applications for the Chessable Research Awards are being accepted now. The application process continues until October 1, 2022, and you have three more weeks to submit yours.

After yesterday’s draw against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hans Niemann spoke in the R7 post-game interview about the mental pressure he is facing over the past few days. He concluded that it is ridiculous t play chess under those conditions. The eighth penultimate round of the Sinquefield Cup 2022 features the encounter between 19-year-old Niemann and Fabiano Caruana.

With only two rounds to go at the Sinquefield Cup 2022, Wesley So continues to lead the event. The American grandmaster scores 4 points to be ahead of Fabiano Caruana, Alireza Firouzja and Ian Nepomniachtchi who tie for the second place with 3.5 points, each. The penultimate eighth round of the Sinquefield Cup brings the interesting encounter between the 19-year-old Alireza Firouzja and the leader of the tournament – Wesley So.

GM Daniel Naroditsky yesterday joined GM Hikaru Nakamura’s live stream yesterday where they analyzed the games from the Sinquefield Cup 2022 and talked about recent happenings connected with Carlsen’s first-ever withdrawal from the tournament. Nakamura and Naroditsky spoke about cheating in chess, how often it is, and is it really possible to cheat in the over-the-board games.

It was a hard-fought day with four draws as GM Wesley So continues to lead the Sinquefield Cup, the final leg of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour. With So having a bye round today it was an opportunity for his competitors to close the distance, but with just two rounds left it’s only Alireza Firouzja and Ian Nepomniachtchi, who are a half-point behind, that have the best chance of catching up.