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European Youth Team Chess Championships 2022 take place from 12 July to 18 July in the Conference Hall of the 5 stars Lazart Hotel in Thessaloniki, which will host also the European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship 2022 from 19 July to 23 July 2022.

European Youth Team Chess Championships 2022 commence tomorrow and will be played from 12 July to 18 July in the Conference Hall of the 5 stars Lazart Hotel in Thessaloniki, which will host also the European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship 2022 from 19 July to 23 July 2022.

The European Youth Team Chess Championships (EYTCC) will include four (4) separate competitions, an open competition and a girl’s competition in categories U12 and U18.

Fifty years to the day since Bobby Fischer took on Boris Spassky in the most famous match in chess history, another American showed off his supreme talent on the game’s biggest stage online.

The ACCENTUS Chess960 (ACC) took place today at the Main stage of the Concert Hall, Biel Congress Center within the Biel International Chess Festival 2022. The event was played in 7 round-robin rounds, with the starting position of pieces determined before the start of each round. The time control for the games was: 15 minutes + 5 seconds increment per move.

The World Chess Championship Match 1972 between the challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union started on July 11th, 50 years ago. The match took place in the Laugardalshöll arena in Reykjavík, Iceland, and has been dubbed the Match of the Century.

The 127th edition of the Scottish Chess Championship took place from 2-10 July 2022 at the Edinburgh Chess Club in Edinburgh. FM Murad Abdulla won the event clinching his third Scotland National Chess Champion title.

28th 4NCL Congress Open took place from 8-10 July at Woodland Grange, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, featuring three tournaments: Open, Under 2000 and Under 1700. All events were played in 5 swiss rounds and gathered nearly 200 participants.

The 2022 Swedish Chess Championships (Championship, Masters Elite, Masters, Seniors 50+, Seniors 65+ and Juniors) took place from 1-10 July in Uppsala, being played as 9 round-robin tournaments and 9 swiss rounds tournaments.

The 2022 Swiss Chess Championship took place from 4-10 July in Samnaun, being played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with 68 players. Simultaneously with the National Open and Women’s Chess Championship, the Swiss National Seniors Chess Championship took place with participation of 16 players who fought over 7 swiss rounds.

The Biel International Chess Festival was opened for the 55th time yesterday by OC President Peter Bohnenblust and in the presence of Martin Schlup, President of the Grand Council of the Canton of Berne and André Vögtlin, Central President of the Swiss Chess Federation.