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The IX IBCA World Team Chess Championship for the Blind and Visually Impaired takes place in Ohrid, North Macedonia, from June 27 to July 08, 2022. The competition follows the “trademark” IBCA format that combines round robin and double knockout, similar to some high-level football tournaments. According to the results of the 2021 IBCA Olympiad, the sixteen strongest teams are seeded into two groups of eight teams each to play seven-round round-robins.

The FIDE Council approved a new set of regulations for the Women’s Candidates Tournament, adopting a knock-out system with 8 players to be played between 2022 and 2023. The event will be played in a knock-out system with 4-game matches (plus a possible tie-break) with the finals being played over the distance of 6 games. See the regulations here: Women’s Candidates Chess Tournament 2022/23 – The new system, Pools & Participants list

The FIDE Council has approved a new set of regulations for the Women’s Candidates Tournament, adopting a knock-out system with 8 players to be played between 2022 and 2023. The first two stages of this knock-out will be played as 4-game matches (plus a possible tie-break), with the final being played over the distance of 6 games. The total prize fund will stand at a record 250,000€.

The field includes:

This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with GM Judit Polgar and GM Jan Gustafsson, in collaboration with Chess24.com. Round 10 pairings: Richard Rapport – Ding Liren / Jan-Krzysztof Duda – Fabiano Caruana / Ian Nepomniachtchi – Teimour Radjabov /

This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with GM Alejandro Ramirez, GM Yasser Seirawan and IM Dorsa Derakhshani, in collaboration with Saint Louis Chess Club and Today in Chess Candidates edition. Round 10 pairings: Richard Rapport – Ding Liren / Jan-Krzysztof Duda – Fabiano Caruana / 

This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with IM Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal, in collaboration with Chessbase.

This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with GM Daniil Yuffa, IM Elisabeth Paehtz and the special guest GM Peter Svidler, in collaboration with Worldchess.com.

After nine played rounds at the 2022 FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament, Ian Nepomniachtchi maintained the sole lead with 6.5 points and a full point advantage over Fabiano Caruana who is second with 5.5 points. Hikaru Nakamura and Ding Liren tie for third place with 4.5 points, each, and seems that no one can disturb Nepo’s first position. After yesterday’s free day, the event continues today at 15:00 CEST with the 10th round.

The best female chess player of all times GM Judit Polgar does a daily broadcast of the FIDE Candidates Chess 2022 together with GM Jan Gustafsson. During the 9th round, Judit shared interesting thoughts on Nepomniachtchi’s games and compared him to the chess legend Garry Kasparov: “I remember when I was a kid, and I was looking Kasparov’s games, you could find quite a few games where people lost in a way that people wouldn’t lose against other strong grandmasters the same way.

The 3rd Stepan Avagyan Memorial took place June 20-28, 2022 in Jermuk, Armenia. The event was played as a 10-player round-robin tournament with an interesting mixture of young stars and local talents.
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