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The amount of decisive results in this tournament is staggering. Not a round has gone by without at least two decisive games, most rounds have between three and four and today no less than five of the six games finished with a winner.

Compared to most of the top elite events, the drawing percentage is notoriously low, to a large extent based on the fighting spirit of the players: all of them good friends away from the board but fierce competitors when the games begin.

After World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen won the Julius Baer Generation Cup, he announced to publish the official statement on the controversial happenings related to his withdrawal from Sinquefield Cup 2022 and resignation against Hans Niemann after only two played moves.

The greatly anticipated course by Vladimir Kramnik – Understanding Chess Openings with 1.e4 is finally here! With a brand new Part 3, the 14th World Champion reveals his ‘user manual’ for playing and winning with 1.e4.

A world-famous racing driver who clinched the World Drivers’ Championship in 2016, Nico Rosberg, yesterday joined the Julius Baer Generation Cup live studio for the celebrity charity chess challenge. Nico Rosberg played against the World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen’s computer bot that simulates Carlsen’s play when he was aged 10. Rosberg had two minutes on the clock and lost to 10-year-old Magnus Carlsen bot on time after 18 played moves.

The Educational Chess Summit 2022 is organised by Judit Polgar Chess Foundation in partnership with the European Chess Union will take place on 8th October 2022 as part of the Global Chess Festival 2022.

European Chess Union, taking in account the received applications, the proposals and selections by the Chairpersons, and the wider representation, appointed the following members for ECU Commissions:

ECU Arbiters Council:

American live streamer, YouTuber, esports commentator and competition Ludwig Anders Ahgren, known simply as Ludwig, announced the Mogul Chessboxing Championship, a hybrid event where participants play alternating rounds of chess and boxing until one side wins either by checkmate or knockout. 

Grand Prix events are long and tiring. Eleven games plus travel essentially means two full weeks abroad, in addition to time allocated for training purposes. The free day at the halfway point of the event is very much appreciated by the players – and officials/volunteers – to recharge their batteries for the last rounds.

Magnus Carlsen won the Julius Baer Generation Cup today after he convincingly defeated his younger opponent Arjun Erigaisi in the two-day final match.

After defeating Arjun Erigaisi in the two-day Julius Baer Generation Cup match with a convincing 2-0 score, Magnus Carlsen clinched the Julius Baer Generation Cup – the 7th event of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour!