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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. Round 7 pairings: Richard Rapport –  Ian Nepomniachtchi / Jan-Krzysztof Duda – Hikaru Nakamura / Ding Liren – Alireza Firouzja /

The FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 reaches its halfway. Ian Nepomniachtchi and Fabiano Caruana separated themselves from the rest of the field, scoring 4.5 and 4 points, respectively.

FIDE Council decided to waive rating fees for Rapid and Blitz over-the-board tournaments held in 2021-2023. The Financial rules of the FIDE Handbook have been updated accordingly, says FIDE, adding that FIDE constantly works on reducing various fees.

Leading Stockfish developers have filed suit against ChessBase to enforce their license termination claiming Chessbase has “repeatedly violated central obligations of the GPLv3 license”. The court hearing in the case Tord Romstad and Stéphane Nicolet vs. ChessBase GmbH will take place on Monday, July 4th, and Stockfish calls all interested parties to attend the hearing.

The Azerbaijani grandmaster Teimour Radjabov played against Richard Rapport in the 6th round of the FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022. He had a dominant position but blundered the win away just one move before the time control. @ChessMike captured a moment when Radjabov checked his phone for the truth after the game and he truly seems unhappy with what he sees (see the video below).

After a thrilling round 6 of the FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Fabiano Caruana separated further from the rest of the field. Both players won their R6 games, with Nepo maintaining the sole leadership with 4.5 points and Caruana following him with clear second place and 4 points.

7-year-old Kazakhstani chess player Malika Ziyadin made a sensation on the recently finished FIDE World School Chess Championship 2022 in Panama. Scoring the “Fischer result” 9/9 Malika won the merged section of boys and girls aged under 7 and claimed two titles of a single event – she became the FIDE World School Chess Champion for both Open and Girls age categories U7. The second-ranked player on the final rankings Raben Goel scored 2.5 points less.

The FIDE World School Chess Championship 2022 took place from June 10-19, 2022, at the Wyndham Panama Albrook Mall Hotel & Convention Center, Panama City, under the auspices of FIDE and the Panama Chess Federation.

After 9 played rounds in 6 age categories (U7, U9, U11, U13, U15, U17 open and girls sections) and the Winners are: (scroll down for final rankings of each section)

U7 & GU7 – Ziyadin Malika (Kazakhstan)

The Women’s National Team and the representatives of the Kazakhstan Chess Federation met with Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. The 44th Chess Olympiad 2022 starts on 28th July in Chennai, and Kazakhstan Women’s Team will compete with the following composition:

Kazakhstan Team (Women’s section):

Anish Giri publsihed his Chessable round 6 review of the FIDE Candidates tournament, where he takes a detailed look of the victories of Caruana and Nepo