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The Azerbaijani National Youth Chess Championships 2022 took place from 16-24 June in Baku. The event was played in 6 age categories: U8, U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18, open and girls sections separately, with the participation of more than 300 players.

After 9 days of fights, the Azerbaijan National Youth Champions are: (scroll down for final rankings of all groups)
U8 – Safa Hummatov
GU8 – Mehriban Ahmadli
U10 – Shamsi Garakhanov
GU10 -Asnad Bakhshizada

The FIDE Congress will be held in Chennai, India between 31 July 2022 and 09 August 2022 as part of the Chess Olympiad 2022 (see all Olympiad news here). Part of it is the FIDE General Assembly, where on the agenda are the FIDE elections featuring a different kind of Ukraine vs Russia fight (Read more –

The International Chess Federation has declared 2022 as The Year of the Woman in Chess and established special Awards for Women in Chess. The awards recognize outstanding achievements and contributions to women in chess and the criteria for nominations are as follows:

1. The FIDE Year of the Woman in Chess Awards

This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with GM Judit Polgar, GM Jan Gustafsson and GM David Howell, in collaboration with Chess24.com. Round 7 pairings: Richard Rapport –  Ian Nepomniachtchi / Jan-Krzysztof Duda – Hikaru Nakamura / Ding Liren – Alireza Firouzja / 

This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with IM Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal, in collaboration with Chessbase.  Round 7 pairings: Richard Rapport –  Ian Nepomniachtchi / Jan-Krzysztof Duda – Hikaru Nakamura / Ding Liren – Alireza Firouzja / 

This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with GM Alejandro Ramirez, GM Yasser Seirawan and GM Cristian Chirila, in collaboration with Saint Louis Chess Club and Today in Chess Candidates edition. Round 7 pairings: Richard Rapport –  Ian Nepomniachtchi / Jan-Krzysztof Duda – Hikaru Nakamura / 

This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with GM Daniil Yuffa and WIM Anna-Maja Kazarian, in collaboration with Worldchess.com. Round 7 pairings: Richard Rapport –  Ian Nepomniachtchi / Jan-Krzysztof Duda – Hikaru Nakamura / Ding Liren – Alireza Firouzja /

The FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 reaches its halfway. Ian Nepomniachtchi and Fabiano Caruana separated themselves from the rest of the field, scoring 4.5 and 4 points, respectively.

FIDE Council decided to waive rating fees for Rapid and Blitz over-the-board tournaments held in 2021-2023. The Financial rules of the FIDE Handbook have been updated accordingly, says FIDE, adding that FIDE constantly works on reducing various fees.

Leading Stockfish developers have filed suit against ChessBase to enforce their license termination claiming Chessbase has “repeatedly violated central obligations of the GPLv3 license”. The court hearing in the case Tord Romstad and Stéphane Nicolet vs. ChessBase GmbH will take place on Monday, July 4th, and Stockfish calls all interested parties to attend the hearing.