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This year’s AGM (Annual General Meeting) of the English Chess Federation takes place on Saturday October 15th starting at 1.30pm at the Simister Hall, The Signing Tree Conference Centre, Ladywood Road, Birmingham B16 8SZ; The Annual General Meeting will conduct the election of Directors, the Chairman of the Council, the FIDE Delegate and members of Standing Committees.

Nominations for election at the AGM

Chair of Council
David Eustace
Nominated by Non-Executive Director Stephen Woodhouse, Past Chair of Council

The US Chess Championship 2022 is going to take place October 4-14 in the Saint Louis Chess Club. It will feature 14 of the strongest US chess players. The event boasts a prize fund of 250 000$ with additional $64,000 “Fischer Bonus Prize” available if a player finishes with a perfect score. The current US Chess Champion is Wesley So and he is going to defend his title in 2022.

The US Chess Championship 2022 is going to take place October 4-14 in the Saint Louis Chess Club. It will feature 14 of the strongest US chess players.

Live games with analysis will be daily on Chessdom.com

The Julius Baer Generation Cup is the 7th event of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour and takes place from 18-25 September on chess24.com. The event will feature 16 world-class players spanning the age spectrum. World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen will headline the field and meet again with 19-year-old Hans Niemann.

The Julius Baer Generation Cup is the 7th event of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour and takes place from 18-25 September on chess24.com.

Alireza Firouzja is having a wonderful moment in his career.

The Julius Baer Generation Cup is the 7th event of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour and takes place from 18-25 September on chess24.com. The event will feature 16 world-class players spanning the age spectrum. World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen will headline the field and meet again with 19-year-old Hans Niemann.

Hikaru Nakamura will participate in the Saint Louis 9LX Chess 960 event, starting this Wednesday in USA. In all play days of the event, Nakamura will provide live show on his Twitch channel together with GM Irina Krush, GM Benjamin Bok, and WIM Fiona Steil-Antoni.

More Chess 960: Stockfish wins TCEC Chess 960

Imagine you could sit down with one of the strongest players in the world for your tactics training. After every problem, you compare notes – what you saw, what he saw. You talk about your thought processes and tips for solving the problems. Every exercise, you get this same detailed explanation from a 2700+ rated Grandmaster. Well, that’s exactly the idea behind Shankland’s Chess Calculation Workbook.

FIDE has entered into a partnership with the German company WR Group Holding GmbH to launch together a new major competition: the World Open Teams Championship 2023. The first tournament is planned to take place in Düsseldorf in May-June 2023, played over three days under rapid time control. It will be open to clubs from all over the world, with the prize fund expected to reach 250,000€ already for the first event.