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This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with GM Daniil Yuffa and WIM Anna-Maja Kazarian, in collaboration with Worldchess.com.

This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with IM Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal, in collaboration with Chessbase.

In his latest Chessable recap, Anish Giri analyzes the FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament games from the 10th round. “As the tournament’s approaching the finish line, slowly but surely, it gets very tense. As it happens with every Candidates tournament that I have seen, towards the end, the desperate people are getting more desperate. We are entering the stage where some people are losing a mathematical chance of a victory, and those who still have this chance are going all out,” explained Anish before showing the games.

Ian Nepomniachtchi increased his sole lead in the FIDE Candidates Tournament by another half a point after yesterday’s bloody day in Madrid. The race for the second place becomes widely open and more interesting to follow, especially as Magnus Carlsen seriously considers to withdraw from the World Championship Match. Read more: FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 R10 recap

Round 11 pairings:

Today in Chess: FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 – R10 recap

The 15th annual Philadelphia International Chess Tournament took place from 24-28 June at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown which hosted the Philadelphia Open and will be the venue of the 50th World Open starting tomorrow.

The Philadelphia International Chess Open took place from 24-26 June at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown which will also host the 50th World Open starting tomorrow.

The event was played in 5 sections: Major, U2100, U1800, U1500, and U1200. GM Andrew Tang triumphed in the Major section, scoring perfect 5/5 points, and pocketing the money prize of 1600$. IM Thomas Bartell, Roger Martin, and Ben Johnson tied for second place, claiming 633.33$ each.

Hikaru Nakamura predicted the outcome of the FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 way before it started in Madrid. The chess statisticians and top grandmasters saw Alireza Firouzja and Ding Liren as the main favorites to win the event, and a chess legend Garry Kasparov added Jan-Krzysztof Duda on the list of the favorites.

The IX IBCA World Team Chess Championship for the Blind and Visually Impaired takes place in Ohrid, North Macedonia, from June 27 to July 08, 2022. The competition follows the “trademark” IBCA format that combines round robin and double knockout, similar to some high-level football tournaments. According to the results of the 2021 IBCA Olympiad, the sixteen strongest teams are seeded into two groups of eight teams each to play seven-round round-robins.

The FIDE Council approved a new set of regulations for the Women’s Candidates Tournament, adopting a knock-out system with 8 players to be played between 2022 and 2023. The event will be played in a knock-out system with 4-game matches (plus a possible tie-break) with the finals being played over the distance of 6 games. See the regulations here: Women’s Candidates Chess Tournament 2022/23 – The new system, Pools & Participants list