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Women's Candidates 2022-23 Pool A QF: Humpy makes a perfect start

26/10/2022 -

Koneru Humpy made a perfect start at FIDE Women's Candidates 2022-23. She won the first game of the Quarterfinals in just 24 moves against Anna Muzychuk. The India no.1 and World no.3 woman did not expect her opponent to opt for Queen's Gambit Accepted line. Soon she landed in trouble and Humpy seized her opportunity. Mariya Muzychuk also had a tough start. She lost to the Candidates debutant, Lei Tingjie in the first game. Both games were won with the white pieces. Three more games to go in the Pool A Quarterfinals. Game 2 starts at 3 p.m. local time, 6:30 p.m. IST. Photo: FIDE/Michal Walusza

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Praggnanandhaa and Tania Sachdev are the top seeds at Asian Continental 2022

25/10/2022 -

Asian Continental Open and Women's championship is less than 24 hours away now. It is the strongest tournament India is hosting a little over 75 days after the successful completion of the globally acclaimed 44th Chess Olympiad. The top four in Open and top two in the Women will qualify to the respective FIDE World Cup 2023. Total US$ 60000 prize is up for grabs. Top three prizes in the Open section are $7000, $6000 and $5000, it is $6000, $5000 and $3000 in the Women's. GM R Praggnanandhaa and IM Tania Sachdev are the top seeds in the Open and Women's event respectively. Round 1 starts tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. IST. Predict the winners in both Open and Women's event. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Humpy to face Anna Muzychuk in the Pool A Quarterfinals of FIDE Women's Candidates 2022-23

25/10/2022 -

One half of the FIDE Women's Candidates participants will battle in Monaco. The tournament to determine the Challenger for Ju Wenjun and play for the Women's World Championship will be held in two phases. Pool A comprises Anna Muzychuk, Koneru Humpy, Lei Tingjie and Mariya Muzychuk. Anna will face Humpy and Tingjie will battle against Mariya in two Quarterfinal matches in a best of four games. The winner of each Quarterfinal matches will face each other in the Semifinals which will also have the same number of games. The winner of the Pool A Semifinal will face the winner of Pool B Semifinal at a later date. The Quarterfinals Game 1 starts at 3 p.m. local time, 6:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Michal Walusza

World Fischer Random Championship 2022 starts today in Reykjavik, Iceland

25/10/2022 -

The second edition of FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship will take place from 25th to 30th October 2022 in Reykjavik, Iceland. The defending champion Wesley So, reigning world champion and the world no.1 Magnus Carlsen, Iceland no.1 GM Hjorvar Steinn Gretarsson (Organizer Wildcard), World Championship Challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE President Wildcard), chess.com Qualifiers - Vladimir Fedoseev and Matthias Bluebaum, lichess Qualifiers - Hikaru Nakamura and the reigning World Rapid champion, Nodirbek Abdusattorov. Match 1 game 1 starts today at 3 p.m. GMT, 8:30 p.m. IST. Photo: FIDE/David Llada

The Chennai Chess Olympiad Documentary

24/10/2022 -

The Chess Olympiad 2022 was held in Chennai. It was the single biggest chess event held in India so far - a total of 188 nations took part in this mega chess festival. Abhyudaya Ram from the ChessBase India team created a documentary on the full Chennai Chess Olympiad and the events which lead up to it. In this article, we share the whole documentary with timestamps, and a short Q&A with the chief editor of this documentary, Abhyudaya Ram. This will give you a good idea on the overall work of the ChessBase India Team in the Chennai Chess Olympiad. Thumbnail: Abhyudaya Ram

Hage Lasa Nado wins 1st Garo Hills Rating Tournament 2022

24/10/2022 -

Hage Lasa Nado scored 8/9 to win 1st Garo Hills Rating Tournament 2022. Despite losing his second round game, Hage registered seven consecutive victories, including an important win over the top seed Dupit Tabu in the final round to become the champion. Dupit scored sole 7.5/9 to finish second. Five players scored 7/9. Barbith M Sangma was placed third according to the tie-breaks. The total prize fund of the tournament was ₹177000. The top three prizes were ₹30000, ₹20000 and ₹15000 along with a trophy each. This was the first-ever Rating tournament in Meghalaya for the players of Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh players only. Photo: Francis A Sangma

You are your own enemy

24/10/2022 -

It is believed that the hardest battle one can have is with their own self. We often doubt ourselves, question our decisions, judgments, wonder if we could have done something differently. Once we are past the battle with ourselves, we are ready to conquer whatever we put our mind to. The things we know to be as correct, can sometimes prove to be not. Automatic decisions and moves can prove to have quite the opposite of our desired result. GM Sundararajan Kidambi explains the beautiful concept of using your opponent's piece to your advantage instead of always being bent on recapturing a piece, pawn in this particular case. Check out the detailed analysis by Kidambi and enrich your knowledge. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Robert Hovhannisyan wins Hoogeveen Open 2022, Bharath Subramaniyam third

24/10/2022 -

GM Robert Hovhanniyan (ARM) defeated IM Nico Zwirs (NED) in the Finals to win Hoogeveen Open 2022. GM Bharath Subramaniyam H won the 3rd-4th place match against GM Evgeny Romanov (NOR) to finish third. Bharath drew their Classical encounter and then won both Blitz tie-breaks against Romanov. Earlier Bharath had defeated the eventual champion Hovhannisyan in the sixth round before the final four played their Semifinal matches. The total prize fund of the tournament was €9500. The top three prizes were €2500, €1500 and €1000 each respectively. Photo: Hoogeveen Chess

Chakravarthy Reddy clinches Sushruta Reddy's 1st Rating Open 2022

23/10/2022 -

Top seed of the tournament, IM Chakravarthi Reddy scored an unbeaten 8/9 to win Sushruta Reddy's 1st Rating Open 2022. Dhanush Ragav N S and Arpan Das also scored 8/9 each. However, they were placed second and third according to tie-breaks. Third to fifth seed finished in the same order. The total prize fund of the tournament was ₹600000. The top three prizes were ₹50000 and a trophy, ₹40000 and ₹30000 each respectively. A total of 247 players took part from various parts of the country, Australia, Mongolia, Scotland and USA. The five-day nine-round Swiss League Rating tournament was organized by Innovators Chess Academy from 1st to 5th October at Virginia Mall, Whitefield in Bangalore, Karnataka. Photo: FI NA Sushruta Reddy

1st Indian Chess Club tournament in Bahrain

22/10/2022 -

The 1st Indian Club Rapid Chess Tournament 2022 was held at the Indian Club, Manama Kingdom of Bahrain on 14th of October 2022. There were a total of 140 participants from 11 countries. The event had a total prize fund of $1500. Mero Aghiad from Syria won the event scoring 6.5/7. Vismay Sachar was the best-performing Indian player - he scored 5.5/7 and finished in 11th position, also getting the 1st prize in the Under-14 age category. A lot of the Indian players won category prizes, which were distributed by Shaikh Abdulrahman Bin Rashid Al Khalifa. Photo: Arjun Kakkadath.

FM Nikhil Dixit wins the 5th TMCA Rapid

22/10/2022 -

FM Nikhil Dixit won the Open section of the 5th TMCA One Day Rapid Chess Tournament, held in Chinchwade Lawns, Pune. Both Nikhil Dixit and Aniruddha Potawad scored 6.5/7, but Nikhil clinched the 1st place due to better tiebreaks. The total prize fund of the tournament was Rs.49000, and there were a total of 49 trophies awarded. There were a total of 4 categories - Open, Under 8, Under 10 and Under 14. The most number of participants trophy was won by host of the event - Tactical Moves Chess Academy (TMCA). Photo: Shri Madhav Mulay.

India wins 46 medals at Asian Youth Chess Championships 2022

22/10/2022 -

India has won a mammoth 46 medals including 27 individual (13 Gold, 6 Silver and 8 Bronze) medals, 19 team (8 Gold, 4 Silver and 7 Bronze) medals at Asian Youth Chess Championships 2022. 27 out of 108 individual medals were won by Indian players. Madhvendra Pratap Sharma is the only Indian who has won a Gold medal in all three formats - Classical, Rapid and Blitz in Under-10 Open category. He also remained undefeated in all 23 games. Charvi A, Ethan Vaz, Saparya Ghosh and WFM Bhagyashree Patil won two Gold medal each in their respective categories. India finished second overall with 10 medals, Vietnam first bagging 11 medals in the Classical format. Photo: IM FT FA Neeraj Kumar Mishra

Jan-Krzysztof Duda defies Mamedyarov's inspired comeback, clinches Aimchess Rapid 2022

22/10/2022 -

Poland no.1 Jan-Krzysztof Duda defeated Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the finals to win Aimchess Rapid 2022. It was certainly not an easy second set. Duda topped the Prelims then eliminated Vidit and Carlsen in the Quarterfinal and Semifinal matches without the need of tie-breaks. Mamedyarov had no plans of going down in two straight sets. He brought 'Shakh attack' and smashed Duda in the first two games. Duda made a prophylactic draw in the third to save energy and play Blitz tie-breaks. He won both Blitz games to win the Final and his second Meltwater Champions Chess Tour event of the season. Photo: Champions Chess Tour

Hans Niemann: "The lawsuit speaks for itself"

21/10/2022 -

The drama in the chess world has reached new heights. After cheating accusations in online and OTB chess from multiple sources including the World Champion Magnus Carlsen, Grandmaster Hans Niemann has filed a lawsuit! He has filed a 100 million USD lawsuit against Magnus Carlsen, Chess.com, Play Magnus, Hikaru Nakamura and IM Daniel Rensch (CEO of chesscom). What are the accusations he is bringing forward? In this article, we discuss the salient points of the 44-page lawsuit document which Hans put forward on twitter. Photo: Lawsuit PDF from Hans Niemann's tweet.

Queens in the castle: the 8th Global Chess Festival

21/10/2022 -

The 8th Edition of the Global Chess Festival 2022 started from 8th October 2022. It brought together participants from 15 countries in Budapest. More than 3000 people attended the festival and tens of thousands followed the events online. News of the festival spread overseas, with all of New York watching on the giant screens in Times Square as the greatest female player of all time made her winning move in an iconic game against the current world champion. This year, the organizers aimed to raise awareness about the importance of the role of girls in various scientific fields.

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