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IX IBCA World Team Chess Championship for the Blind and Visually Impaired took place in Ohrid, North Macedonia, from June 27 – July 08, 2022. The event was organized by the National Sports Federation of the Blind of North Macedonia in cooperation with the Chess Federation of North Macedonia.

16-year-old Indian grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh continues to shine achieving his fourth consecutive triumph on the soil of Spain.

28th 4NCL Congress Open takes place over the weekend 8-10 July at Woodland Grange, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire featuring three tournaments: Open, Under 2000 and U1700. All events are being played in 5 swiss rounds, with time control: All moves in 90 minutes plus 30 second increment per move from move 1.

Playing Schedule (GMT +1):

The 2022 Warsaw Chess Festival opens today at the Warsaw sports hall and will be held from July 8 to July 17, 2022. The Festival features Jan Maciej’s Memorial in blitz chess (scheduled for July 8) and Mieczysław Najdorf Memorial in classic chess (taking place from 9-17 July).

28th 4NCL Congress Open starts today and will be played over the weekend 8-10 July at Woodland Grange, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

The event features three tournaments: Open, Under 2000 and U1700, with all events being played in 5 swiss rounds, with time control: All moves in 90 minutes plus 30 second increment per move from move 1. The total prize fund of the events is 3.000£.

The 15th edition of the International Chess Festival Paracin 2022 takes place from 8 – 16 July at the Pool Prestige Hotel in Paracin. Just two days after the end of one of the biggest European Open chess events in Novi Sad, Paracin hosts another massive and strong Open event.

The Trinidad & Tobago Chess Association organized the Trinidad and Tobago International Open Chess Tournament 2022 from 1-8 July at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.

The event featured two tournaments: the 10-player round-robin invitational Masters and the Open tournament (for players rated U2200). Both events were played in 9 rounds, with time control: 90 minutes for the whole game + 30 seconds of increment.

The 2022 New York GM/IM Summer Invitational kicked off yesterday at Hilton Garden Inn Midtown Park Ave, New York. The event takes place from 7-11 July with four 10-player round-robin tournaments for grandmasters and international masters norms. All information about the tournaments can be found here

GM Tournament A – LIVE:

16-year-old Indian chess star Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa has arrived in Serbia where he will play the 15th International Chess Festival Paracin. The event starts tomorrow and will be played from 8 – 16 July at the Pool Prestige Hotel in Paracin – a town located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia.

Hikaru Nakamura has just finished the FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 in Madrid and already published the schedule for this week’s streams. He yesterday had a Rollercoaster Rating Blitzing for 3200 online rating: “I will play six games. I will just win six games and I am gonna probably call it a day” said Hikaru.