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Susan Polgar started playing chess in her early childhood. At the age of 4, she won the first chess tournament. 11 years later, at the age of 15, Susan Polgar became the top-ranked female player in the World, winning the Women’s World Champion crown in 1996.

The 2022-2023 series of Women’s Grand Prix tournaments features four events which will be held between August 2022 and June 2023.

The schedule and dates framework is as followed:

The Azerbaijan Women’s Chess Championship 2022 takes place in Baku from 16 to 23 May. Live broadcast of the games will be daily on Chessdom.com. (scroll down for more information about the event)

Teen Indian sensation Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa currently is giving his 11th-grade exams, same time expecting the start of the Chessable Masters which kicks off tomorrow, Thursday, 19th of May.

 The Chessable Masters kicks off tomorrow and takes place from 19 – 26 May. The 16-player $150,000 tournament is the 4th stage of the $1.6 million Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. 

Serbian Chess Federation today hold a press conference announcing the composition of National teams for the upcoming 44th Chess Olympiad 2022 which will take place in Chennai from July 28 – August 10.

Serbian Team (Open section):

The Peruvian Open and Women’s National Chess Championships 2022 will take place from 17-22 May in Lima.
LIVE now: Czech National Chess Championship 2022

The Czech National Open Chess Championship 2022 is an open tournament taking place from 14-22 May 2022 in Usti nad Labem.

15-year-old Indian grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju showed an amazing performance this summer winning three open tournaments in Spain: 1st Chessable Sunway Formentera Chess Festival 2022, 1st Menorca Chess Open 2022 and the 48th La Roda Open 2022.

The 2022 US National Elementary (K-6) Chess Championships took place from 13-15 May in Columbus Ohio’s Greater Columbus Convention Center.

The event gathered 1053 players and 472 teams from 40 states who fought for the National US Champion title in four sections: K-1, K-3, K-5 and K-6. The special guests of the event were: GM Josh Friedel, GM Elshan Moradiabadi, WGM Katerina Nemcova, FM Gauri Shankar and Danny Rohde. (scroll down for final rankings)