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Russian grandmaster and the 14th World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik yesterday participated in Chess.com’s Online Rapid Chess Championship. Kramnik was disappointed with the new online flagging fashion, writing on his chess.com account: “Thank you, it was the first and last time I participate in this event. It is decadence and shame flagging like almost everyone does. I am not going to participate in this moral degradation show :)“. Kramnik later amended the text, and explained in details what happened.

The El Retiro Park in Madrid yesterday attracted the world’s top chess players, streamers, and many chess enthusiasts. World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, World No 9 Anish Giri, and the best female chess player of all times Judit Polgar played chess against the visitors, but also enjoyed blitz games against each other.

The Chess24 Premium Blitz Tournament was played yesterday in Madrid at the Ajedrez con Cabeza chess club. The field included reigning World Chess Champion GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Anish Giri, GM Daniel Naroditsky, GM David Anton Guijarro, and eight more grandmasters.

MrDodgy, the CEO of Chefable and the Tournament Director of MrDodgy Invitational 2022 says he enjoyed the Candidates recap. MrDodgy published a hilarious video describing the tournament situation for Ding Liren, Alireza Firouzja and Fabiano Caruana.

This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with GM Judit Polgar and GM Jan Gustafsson, in collaboration with Chess24.com.

This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with GM Alejandro Ramirez, GM Yasser Seirawan and IM Dorsa Derakhshani, in collaboration with Saint Louis Chess Club and Today in Chess Candidates edition.

This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with GM Daniil Yuffa and GM Evgenij Miroshnichenko, in collaboration with Worldchess.com. Round 13 pairings: Ian Nepomniachtchi – Richard Rapport / Hikaru Nakamura – Jan-Krzysztof Duda / Alireza Firouzja

This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with IM Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal, in collaboration with Chessbase.  Round 13 pairings: Ian Nepomniachtchi – Richard Rapport / Hikaru Nakamura – Jan-Krzysztof Duda / Alireza Firouzja – Ding Liren /

FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 is coming to its end. Two rounds to go and a two-point lead for Ian Nepomniachtchi – the winner is almost known. However, the stakes for second place could be high, as Magnus Carlsen still didn’t decide whether he’ll play the World Chess Championship Match. After yesterday’s free day, the event continues today with R13 starting from 15:00 CEST.

This summer the International Chess Forum Moscow Open 2022 will take place from the 14th to the 20th of July in the Irina Viner-Usmanova Gymnastics Center. The program will include open tournaments for men and women, stages of the Cup of Russia, as well as stages of the Children’s Cup of Russia.