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Today in Chess: FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 R13 recap

With today’s draw against Richard Rapport, Ian Nepomniachtchi secured the victory at the FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 with a round to spare. Nepo joined WGM Dina Belenkaya for the post-game interview, but the ovations wouldn’t let it start. See the video below.

Russian grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi drew the round 13 game against Richard Rapport and secured the trophy at the 2022 FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament with a round to spare! Nepomniachtchi is the second player ever who managed to win the Candidates Tournament two consecutive times, repeating Vasily Smyslov’s feast from 1956.

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.