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The 15th edition of the Serbian National Youth Chess Festival commenced today in Novi Sad with the Serbian Youth Rapid Chess Championship 2022.

The 1st “Mikis Theodorakis” international chess tournament kicked off today in Chania, a city on the northwest coast of the Greek island of Crete.

The event takes place from April 25 to May 1 and it will be played in 9 rounds, Swiss system. 73 players from 11 countries take part in the event fighting for the total prize fund of 2.600 euros.

Starting rank list of players:

Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is “having fun” after recording a third straight match-win today to continue his perfect start to the elite Oslo Esports Cup. India’s 16-year-old superstar-in-the-making is the only player with 9/9 points and has won the maximum $22,500 so far after he crushed Liem Quang Le with a game to spare. Pragg now faces World Champion Magnus Carlsen in Round 4. Beat Carlsen, as he did two months ago, and the youngster will be the hot favorite to win the first Major of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour season.

Have you ever wondered what would Anish Giri do if he weren’t a professional chess player? Anish Giri answers 9 questions we all thought about:

15-year-old Indian Grandmaster Gukesh D won the 1st Chess Menorca Open which was played from 20th to 24th April 2022 at Hotel Princesa Playa, Menorca, Spain.

GM Leinier Dominguez, GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Irina Krush, and FM Alice Lee all advanced to the finals of the Champions Bracket today, after defeating their respective opponents in the semifinals, relegating them to the Elimination Bracket. While the finalists get a rest day tomorrow, the second round of the Elimination Bracket will feature the matches Aronian – So, Sevian – Robson, Tsolakidou – Tokhirjonova, and Nemcova – Abrahamyan as the players fight to avoid double-elimination.

After FIDE’s ban on Sergey Karjakin for 6 months, a replacement for the Russian player at the Candiadates Chess 2022 was needed.

The Chess Academy of Armenia and the Armenian Chess Federation organize four international chess events from June 6th – July 16th:

• 13th Karen Asrian Memorial (6th-16th June, Yerevan, Armenia)
• 1st International Youth Chess Festival (17th-26th June, Yerevan, Armenia)
• Chess Summer Camp with renowned chess players and Grandmasters (29th June – 6th July, Aghveran, Armenia)
• Stepan Avagyan International Open Chess Tournament (7th-16th July, Jermuk, Armenia)

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Teen sensation Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa leads the Oslo Esports Cup after a stunning win over world number 10 Shakrhiyar Mamedyarov. The 16-year-old from Chennai blew away the oldest player in the field with two game wins to take the Round 2 match 2.5 to 0.5. It followed up Pragg’s impressive Round 1 match win over Jorden van Foreest and leaves him out in front as the only player with the maximum 6 tournament points.

At the time of the last article, Stockfish had already won the TCEC Season 22 Superfinal, but it was still pursuing two potential records: the record for the most decisive Superfinal, and an ‘undefeated’ Superfinal where it loses no openings. Unfortunately for Stockfish fans, Stockfish failed to break the first record – its final score of +19 is still eclipsed by the +20 margin of victory its younger self scored against Komodo in Season 12.