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The FIDE World Senior Team Chess Championships 2022 start today in Acqui Terme. The event is played in two age categories: 50+ and 65+, taking place from 20-29 June.

The biggest Chinese Sports channel CCTV-5 broadcasts the FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 live, supporting their countryman Ding Liren on the road to World Chess Championship Match. More than a million people daily follow Liren’s games from Palacio Santona, Madrid.

Indian chess legend and 15th World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand will continue with competitive chess even if gets elected as the FIDE Deputy President, informed The Times of India. “I’m in the stage where I am playing much less than before. I have my academy as well, which I will continue to dedicate a lot of time to.

Anish Giri gives a deep analysis of all the games from Round 2 of FIDE Candidates Chess 2022: “The bar was set very high in the first round“, said Anish and started the recap with the game between Hikaru Nakamura and Teimour Radjabov. Replay Giri’s R1 recap here.

World No 9 Anish Giri recaps all the games from the FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022. Giri chose the game between Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi as the game of the day giving an extensive analysis to it first.

Serbian International Master, a famous youtube chess streamer, chessable author, and captain of the Serbian National Open Team for the 44th Chess Olympiad 2022 – Miodrag Perunovic (aka The Butcher) analyzes the game between 19-year-old Alireza Firouzja and Hikaru Nakamura from the FIDE Chess Candidates 2022.

Susan Polgar published an amazing picture of Richard Rapport, where the resemblance with the lead singer of Nirvana Kurt Cobain is striking!

Hikaru Nakamura uploaded his R3 recap of the game against 19-year-old Alireza Firouzja in which he faced a piece sacrifice and the slightly worse endgame. He then explained the video was a tiny bit late as he needed to respond to FIDE on their complaints about the dress code: “They want us all to look like it’s 1970’s at the IBM headquarters. It’s hot, we’re all neat, tidy and comfortable for long games.

The Silver Lake Chess Festival 2022 takes place from 19-26th June, 2022, at the Silver Lake “Sports hall” and “Great hall” of Danubia Park Hotel.

The Organizing Committee prepared a rich programme for all ages and playing levels:
– Open “A” tournament for players rated over 2100 FIDE
– Open “B” tournament for players rated under 2200 FIDE
– Blitz FIDE rated tournament

The top board games can be followed live daily on Chessdom.com:

Hikaru Nakamura recaps his game against World No 3 Alireza Firouzja who yesterday celebrated his 19th birthday. Nakamura was surprised with Firouzja’s 1.d4 as he expected 1.e4 instead. Firouzja sacked a piece and transposed to a slightly better endgame with winning chances, but Hikaru managed to escape with a draw.