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Round 2 of the Grand Chess Tour Romania 2022 started in an interesting fashion with a surprising opening choice by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (MVL) who chose the QGA (Queen’s Gambit Accepted) against Wesley So.
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The European Youth Chess Championship 2022 will take place from 5th November (arrival day) – 15th November (departure day) in Antalya, Turkey. The event will be played in 6 age categories: U8, U10, U12...
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The 13th World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov gave an exclusive interview during the second round of Grand Chess Tour Romania 2022. Kasparov shared his impressions about the first 2022 Grand Chess Tour event and the opening ceremony which took place in the Romanian Parliament: “It was spectacular!
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Today, May 6th 2022, the Appeal Chamber of the FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Commission (EDC) formed by its Chairperson Mr. Francois Strydom, and members Mr. Khaled Arfa and Mr. David Hater, announced its decision to dismiss the appeal presented by Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin.
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Following detailed discussions with all parties concerned regarding the new wave of Covid19 appearing in China, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Executive Board decided to postpone the 19th Asian Games, which were scheduled to be held in Hangzhou from 10 to 25 September 2022.
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Ashwath Kaushik aims to become a Grandmaster by playing attacking chess like his role model Mikhail Tal and will be playing in the Indian school nationals next.
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The 5th edition of the Sharjah Chess Masters international tournament will be held from 20th-30th May in Sharjah Cultural & Chess Club. The event will be held as an Invitational Tournament, with (maximum) 80 players of FIDE standard rating of 2300 and above, as of May 2022 FIDE rating list.
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The 2022 Open and Women’s Chess Championships of North Macedonia concluded yesterday in Skopje. The events simultaneously took place in Hotel Continental, being played from April 29 – May 5. 59 players competed in the 9 round swiss system Open tournament...
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Paris (AFP) – Montpellier’s South Africa fly-half Handre Pollard said he expects Saturday’s European Champions Cup quarter-final at La Rochelle to be like “a chess game”. Montpellier have qualified for the last eight for just the second time in their history.
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The Grand Chess Tour kicked off with its first event of the tour – the 2022 Superbet Chess Classic – a 10-player classical round-robin event taking place in Bucharest, Romania. While most fans and the commentators were keeping their eyes on the game between GM Caruana (World Number 4) ...
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The Latvian Chess Championship 2022 and Latvian Women’s Chess Championship 2022 took place from April 27 – May 4 in Riga. GM Ilmars Starostits convincingly won the men’s championship scoring 8/9 points.
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The 44th Chess Olympiad starts on July 28 in Chennai, India. A good three months in advance, the German Chess Federation disclosed the team composition for the Open section: Vincent Keymer (2667) Matthias...
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Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand will work in tandem to guide the Indian players ahead of the 44th Chess Olympiad.
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The famous chess streamer and the women’s grandmaster Qiyu Zhou (AkaNemsko) will be the part of Canada Women’s Team for the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai. Zhou made her debut at the Women’s Chess Olympiad in 2014 in Tromso, Norway, and competed for Canada at the Women’s Chess Olympiad ever since.
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May has been observed as Mental Health Awareness Month in the United States since 1949 to reach people through various media, local events, and available resources and screenings. Mental health is something we all should care about.
