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Former World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov is hospitalized in critical condition and in artificial coma.

Karpov was found is serious condition near the state Duma, where he works as a member of the Russian Parliament. Initial reports suggested Karpov was a victim of an attack, citing head trauma and broken hip. Later, Albert Stepanyan said to TASS news agency that Karpov has not been a victim of attack. Stepanyan adds that Karpov now is in stable condition and suffered no injuries.

US Chess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura gained his first world title, winning the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship today in Reykjavik, Iceland. He defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi, the previous and current challenger for the classical chess world title, winning in a nail-biting “Armageddon” playoff game after their match ended 2-2.  Replay all games here

US Chess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura gained his first world title, winning the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship today in Reykjavik, Iceland. He defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi, the previous and current challenger for the classical chess world title, winning in a nail-biting “Armageddon” playoff game after their match ended 2-2.  Replay all games of day 3 /

Report by Aga Milewska

A very scary tournament was held on 29.10.2022 in London organised by the well-known GingerGM
GM Simon Williams. The tournament had taken a break due to Covid but returned to the crypt at St
Pancras New Church in central London, a perfect venue for Halloween ! Players were encouraged to
wear fancy dress and nearly everyone did.

Many chess luminaries attended this fun event including 8-time Russian Champion GM Peter Svidler

The final match of the Top Engine Chess Championship is here. Stockfish is taking on Leela for the highest title in computer chess, in a 100 games match, starting today at 17:00 UTC on the official site of TCEC and TCEC Twitch TV. Stockfish won convincingly the Premier Division and Leela snatched the second position to be the challenger in the encounter.

With massive popularity and a 400 million lawsuit going on, Hans Niemann is gaining legendary status. The Chess Speaks for Itself this this Halloween too, with players dressing up as Hans Niemann.

Six players at the open section and four players at the women section share the lead at the ongoing Asian Continental Chess Championship 2022. After four rounds no one has a full set of points, as early on rating favorites encountered problems.

Nakamura – Nepomniachtchi is the final at the FIDE Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022. Ian Nepomniachtchi gained Fischer Random revenge for his unsuccessful classical title challenge against Magnus Carlsen last year, and immovable object Hikaru Nakamura toppled the irresistible force of the preliminaries, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, to set up a title match few predicted.

Grandmaster Anish Giri brings you a robust repertoire which seizes Black’s half of the board before move ten — so you’d have all the space and time in the world to set up the winning breakthrough. If there’s one thing chess engines and super-grandmaster games have taught us, it’s that space wins games. And why won’t it? When you control more than half of the board, your pieces play to their full potential.

The Fischer Random World Chess Championship 2022 will have a new champion. Wesley So did not manage to go out of the groups, finishing 3rd in the group stage. However, this takes away just a pinch of the excitement, as the semi finals will see the participants in the last World Chess Championship – the champion Carlsen and the challenger Nepomniachtchi – the Olympic Champion Abdusattorov, and five time US Champion and one of the most creative players Hikaru Nakamura.