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The third tournament of the Grand Chess Tour 2022 series starts today and will be played in Westin Zagreb from July 19-24. The SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia is sponsored by the Superbet Foundation and includes 9 rounds of rapid and 18 rounds of blitz chess for a total prize fund of $175,000.

Three participants of the 2022 Biel Chess Master Tournament will held the event in particularly good memory – they achieved norms. Congratulations to IM Pranav Anand and CM Prraneeth Vuppala won GM norm, while WFM Gülenay Aydin achieved a WIM norm.

More: Le Quang Liem wins Biel Chess Festival 2022 / Replay games

Le Quang Liem is the winner in the Grandmaster Triathlon at the Biel Chess Festival. The Vietnamese player, who was convincing throughout the tournament, proved to be the strongest player in both classical and rapid chess and did not really drop back in blitz chess either, so he truly deserves the overall victory in the Triathlon! The podium is completed by Russia’s Andrey Esipenko and India’s Gukesh Dommaraju. Replay games

Zurab Azmaiparashvili is re-elected as ECU President. Congratulations! The ticket of Mr. Zurab Azmaiparashvili was elected with 44 votes in favor, 2 blank, and 3 invalid ballots in a total of 49 votes cast. Follow the General Assembly of ECU live here

ECU President: Mr. Zurab Azmaiparashvili
Deputy President: Mrs. Dana Reizniece-Ozola
Vice President: Mr. Gunnar Bjornsson
Vice President: Mr. Malcolm Pein
Secretary General: Mr. Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou

The 2022 ECU General Assembly will take place on Saturday, 23rd July 2022 in Hotel Porto Palace Thessaloniki, Greece. The ECU Board meeting will be held a day before, on Friday, 22nd July 2022, in the same venue.

The morning session, Saturday 23rd July 2022: 09.30 – 13.30 live

The 23rd edition of the Pittsburgh Chess Open 2022 will be held from 22-24 July at the Doubletree Green Tree Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The program includes five different tournaments; Major (for players rated 1900+), Under 2100, Under 1800, Under 1500, and Under 1200, with a guaranteed prize fund of 15.000$.

The top female chess player GM Judit Polgar has released two free endgame courses for Chessable. The first one, titled How To “Cash In” On Your Passed Pawn, Polgar examines the passed pawns in endgames in cooperation with GM Mihail Marin. There you will find why passed pawns are a knight’s worst nightmare, Line-closing sacrifices which protect your VIP (very important pawn), How to lift the blockade and guarantee a new queen, and more.

The 30th edition of the Southern Chess Open will take place from 22-24 July in Wyndham Orlando Resort, Florida. The event features five tournaments: Major (for players rated 1900+), Under 2100, Under 1800, Under 1500 and Under 1200 with a guaranteed prize fund of 20.000$.

In a fitting end to the season, Stockfish once again defeated its rivals to win the final event – the Fischer Random Chess final, thus completing a quadruple crown at the Top Chess Engine Championship!

Garry Kasparov knows how it feels to retire from chess while being number one in the world. Yesterday, during the GCT Zagreb, he commented on Magnus Carlsen’s decision not to defend his World Champion title, underlining the fact that Carlsen is not retiring.