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The 2022 ECU General Assembly will take place on Saturday, 23rd July 2022 in Hotel Porto Palace Thessaloniki, Greece. The ECU Board meeting will be held a day before, on Friday, 22nd July 2022, in the same venue.

The morning session, Saturday 23rd July 2022: 09.30 – 13.30 live

The 23rd edition of the Pittsburgh Chess Open 2022 will be held from 22-24 July at the Doubletree Green Tree Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The program includes five different tournaments; Major (for players rated 1900+), Under 2100, Under 1800, Under 1500, and Under 1200, with a guaranteed prize fund of 15.000$.

The top female chess player GM Judit Polgar has released two free endgame courses for Chessable. The first one, titled How To “Cash In” On Your Passed Pawn, Polgar examines the passed pawns in endgames in cooperation with GM Mihail Marin. There you will find why passed pawns are a knight’s worst nightmare, Line-closing sacrifices which protect your VIP (very important pawn), How to lift the blockade and guarantee a new queen, and more.

The 30th edition of the Southern Chess Open will take place from 22-24 July in Wyndham Orlando Resort, Florida. The event features five tournaments: Major (for players rated 1900+), Under 2100, Under 1800, Under 1500 and Under 1200 with a guaranteed prize fund of 20.000$.

In a fitting end to the season, Stockfish once again defeated its rivals to win the final event – the Fischer Random Chess final, thus completing a quadruple crown at the Top Chess Engine Championship!

Garry Kasparov knows how it feels to retire from chess while being number one in the world. Yesterday, during the GCT Zagreb, he commented on Magnus Carlsen’s decision not to defend his World Champion title, underlining the fact that Carlsen is not retiring.

While Magnus Carlsen has occupied chess news headlines with his recent decision not to defend his World Championship title, his friend and title contender Ian Nepomniachtchi seems to be on an emotional roller coaster ride.

The 10th edition of the 2022 Amsterdam Science Park Chess Tournaments takes place from 18-24 July at the USC Universum Sports and Fitness Center Amsterdam, Netherlands. The event features three 9-round swiss system tournaments: A (for players rated 1900+), B (for players rated 1600-1950) and C (for players rated U1650), with participation of more than 300 players fighting for a total prize fund of 5.000 euros.

Magnus Carlsen has declined to defend his FIDE World Champion title. The news was announced by Carlsen himself in a sponsor’s podcast. “I have informed my team, FIDE and Ian [Nepomniachtchi] that I will not play the upcoming World Championship match in classical chess”, says Carlsen and adds that “I am not motivated to play another World Championship match.”

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The 1000 GM/IM St. Louis Norm Tournaments take from 19-23 July in Saint Louis, Missouri. Both IM and GM events will be played in 9 rounds, round-robin system. The time control will be: 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment.