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65+ FIDE World Senior Chess Championship will be held from 14-27 November in Assisi – Umbria Italy. The Championship will be played with time control 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1. In category 65+ will participate John D M Nunn, Vlastimil Jansa, Jean Hebert, Fikret Sideifzade, Nona Gaprindashvili, Boris Maryasin, Nathan Birnboim, Terry P D Chapman, Peter Petran, etc.

50+ FIDE World Senior Chess Championship will be held from 14-27 November in Assisi – Umbria Italy. The Championship will be played with time control 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1. In category 50+ will participate Darcy Lima, Maxim Novik, Eric Prie, Frank Holzke, Ivan Morovic Fernandez, Rogelio Jr Antonio, Laszlo Krizsany, David H. Cummings, Stephen Dishman, etc.

The Norwegian Youth Championship will take place in Molde, Norway from the 18th to the 20th of November. It is a 7-round Dutch Swiss with Johan-Sebastian Christiansen, David Hellesoy, Mathias Unneland, Leo Moen Eidet, Nikolai Olsen Wernberg, Shazil Shehzad, Elma Selvik, etc.

Time control :
Rounds 1-2: 15 minutes for the entire game with a 5-second increment beginning from move 1.
Rounds 3-7: 90 minutes for the entire game with a 30-second increment beginning from move 1.

The final event of the 1.6$ Meltwater Champions Chess Tour 2022 will be held from 14-20 November in San Francisco. Eight elite chess stars will take part in the third and final major in a unique online and in-person hybrid chess event. Four players will compete from SHACK15 in San Francisco, while four will play remotely. 

Magnus Carlsen racked up his seventh straight rapid game win to snatch the sole lead in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals in San Francisco. The World Chess Champion put on another sparking display in Round 4 of 7 as he thrashed Dutch No.1 Anish Giri 3-0 to march on towards victory in the $1.6 million Tour’s end-of-season hybrid event.

There were no major surprises in the Superfinal of the Top Chess Engine Championship, as Stockfish came out the comfortable winner – the final +17 score even surpassed most viewers’ expectations. 

The 23rd European Women’s Chess Championship 2022 will take place from 17-30 March 2023 in Petrovac, Montenegro. The event is open for all women players from National Chess Federations members of the European Chess Union (ECU) without rating or title limitations and according to the decisions of the ECU Board and General Assembly.

The 64th World Congress of Chess Composition (WCSC) is in full swing in Fujairah, UAE. The first day of the World Solving Chess Championship saw FM Bilguun Sumia (pictured below) from Mongolia grab the lead. The member of the Mongolian chess national team he pulled a half-point ahead of the World Champion in solving Danila Pavlov and Nikos Sidiropoulos.

Italian Championship U20 is a 8-player round-robin tournament, held from November 17th to 23rd in Cagliari, Italy with Joshuaede Cappelletto, Neven Hercegova, Gabriele Lumachi, Nicolò Orfini, Andrea Rindone, Ieysaa Bin-Suhayl,Francesco Bettalli and Luca Ballotti.

Nakhchivan Chess Center IM is taking place from 17–22 November 2022 in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is a 10-round Scheveningen tournament with Barad Yeganegi, Tunahan Makaraci, Parva Behzad Nazif, Toghrul Hasanzade, Urfan Sevdimaliyev, Arvin Danesharaste, Sadig Mammadov, Parviz Gasimov, Arsalan Zarinfam and Morteza Darban.