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The Prague Chess Festival 2022 will take place 7-17 June. It will consist of a Masters 10 player round robin event, Challengers and Futures tournaments. The Masters have already confirmed three top players – GM David Navara, GM Le Quang Liem and GM Salem Saleh

America’s best chess players will return to the Saint Louis Chess Club to battle over the board from April 18 – April 29, 2022 in a brand new and exciting tournament, the American Cup.  With $300,000 in prize money up for grabs, the competitors will prove their mettle under mounting pressure in this double-elimination knockout tournament. This format promises to keep fans on the edge of their seats as they follow their favorites to victory. 

The March Lichess Blitz Titled Arena was won by GM Shant Sargsyan, a young Armenian super GM who is a former World U16 champion. In what was one of the closest Titled Arenas ever, Sargsyan was only really able to clinch the tournament in the final few minutes as he won two games back-to-back. Two other young and rising stars, GM Mahammad Muradli and Aravindh Chithambaram Veerappan, finished in second and third place, respectively. The anonymous GM BMWHero came in fourth while GM Vahap Sanal took fifth place.

For the first time, the Saint Louis Chess Club will host The American Cup 2022, highlighting an exciting and unique double elimination format. This new format and tournament will bring world class chess masters to America’s chess capital to compete in a fierce do-or-die struggle for $300,000 total in prize money. Live games and coverage will be daily on Chessdom.com

For the first time, the Saint Louis Chess Club will host The American Cup 2022, highlighting an exciting and unique double elimination format. This new format and tournament will bring world class chess masters to America’s chess capital to compete in a fierce do-or-die struggle for $300,000 total in prize money. With a double elimination format, fans can expect The American Cup to have a combination of exciting chess play, stunning upsets, and epic comebacks.  

The final – sixth round – of the group stage of the Grand Prix finished in Belgrade, with four clear winners progressing to the semi-finals.

The Split Chess Open is going to take place 16-24 July 2022 in Hotel Zagreb. It will be a 9 rounds Swiss with a prize fund of 8500 eur. Two additional blitz and rapid events add an extra 1500 eur to the prize fund.

Computer chess continues to make headlines. This time Elon Musk commented on Massimo Rainmakers1973 post on Shannon’s number, “Chess is a simple game. Understandable when all we had to play with were squirrels and rocks, but now we have computers”

The tweet of Elon Musk coincides with the start on the Premier Division of the Top Chess Engine Championship.

Tamil Nadu Grandmaster D Gukesh defeated former national champion Abhijeet Gupta of the PSPB in the penultimate round to catch up with overnight sole leader second seed Arjun Erigaisi of Telangana, which paved the way for a photo finish at the 58^th edition of Senior National Chess Championship sponsored by MPL Sports Foundation here at Ganges Club, Kanpur on Wednesday.

Gian Carlo Arvelo and Raydily Rosario Almánzar are new chess champions of the Dominican Republic. The Open and Women’s Championships, Swiss tournaments with classical time control, were held from February 18 to March 06 (with a long break from February 20-25 in the open competition).