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Inal Sheripov has withdrawn from the FIDE presidential election due to health reasons. The news was announced in Twitter by Peter Heine Nielsen. Back in May, Inal Sheripov  announced his intention to run for FIDE President. His ticket has already been officially submitted to the FIDE office, with supporting letters from the federations of Ukraine, Zambia, Sierra-Leone, Barbados, and Timor Leste.

Without a doubt, the star of the day was India’s team B first board, 16-year-old Gukesh D. Not only did he win his fifth game in a row, defeating Spanish legend Alexei Shirov, but he also overtook Vidit on the live rating list, becoming India’s number three player with the live-rating of 2714.

An interesting situation appeared today in the fifth round of Chess Olympiad 2022 in the game between GM Anish Giri and GM Eric Hansen. Hansen played the move and the clock added him 30 minutes, showing that he has 30 minutes and 28 seconds left for the end of the game after the move 40. However, the arbiter intervened explaining that GM Eric Hansen has flagged before he made the 40th move.

16-year-old Dommaraju Gukesh played brilliantly to defeat former World Championship Challenger Alexei Shirov even as his India Team B shocked fourth seed Spain with a 2.5-1.5 score at the ongoing 44th Chess Olympiad being played at Mamallapuram, Chennai. Replay the match here

After five played rounds at the 2022 Chess Olympiad only two teams emerged on the top with the perfect score of 10 match points – India2 and Armenia. Uzbekistan, India, USA, Cuba and Iran follow with 4 won matches and 1 draw, scoring 9 match points. India, Georgia and Romania are the only teams remaining perfect at the Women’s Chess Olympiad 2022 and tie for the top after 5 played rounds with 10 match points, each.

After five played rounds at the 2022 Chess Olympiad only two teams emerged on the top with the perfect score of 10 match points – India2 and Armenia. Uzbekistan, India, USA, Cuba and Iran follow with 4 won matches and 1 draw, scoring 9 match points. Round 5 results (open section) are below / Round 5 results (women’s section) can be found here

India, Georgia and Romania are the only teams remaining perfect at the Women’s Chess Olympiad 2022 and tie for the top after 5 played rounds with 10 match points, each. Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan are following with 9 match points. Scroll down for Round 5 results / Round 5 results (open section) can be found here

The first board of the Czech Republic’s team GM David Navara today delivered a beautiful Queen sacrifice winning the game against Mongolian GM Dambasuren Batsuren. Czech Republic won the match with a convincing 3.5-0.5 result, scoring 15 match points. In the post-game interview, Navara said that he needed some time to get used to clime in India and air-conditioning, adding that he is satisfied with the result so far. See the game and the interview below

Chess is a complex game, something that even Elon Musk fails to grasp completely. After only five moves, a game of chess has 69,352,859,712,417 possible positions. You can master all of the patterns, opening tabiyas, and thematic tactics in the world. But when you run into a position that’s “out of the box” — and you will — it’s your ability to find unique solutions that will carry you through!

Three chessboards were set by scuba divers at an unusual place as they decided to play a 60-feet underwater Chess! A group of six divers played 15 minutes underwater chess games, celebrating the first ever Chess Olympiad being held in India. The divers needed two hours to set the playground using specially designed pieces that could stay underwater. The chessboard weigh 10kg each and had iron attached to the base, while chess pieces got filled with iron to add the needed weight. All Chess Olympiad 2022 news