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Nigel Short two days ago announced his resignation as FIDE Vice-President with immediate effect after 4-years long service in the Arkadij Dvorkovich administration. Short’s resignation came while he is playing the FIDE World Senior Team Chess Championship in Acqui Terme, and shortly after a decision by the FIDE Ethics Commission which included the case involving a trip to the US Virgin Islands, where there were two rival organisations claiming to be the legitimate federation.

The Alsterufer Tournament 2022 took place today at Rathausmarkt with the participation of more than 2500 kids. In this traditional event, schools from one half of Hamburg compete against the other one playing chess each year.

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

This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with GM Daniil Yuffa and WIM Anna-Maja Kazarian, in collaboration with Worldchess.com. Round 6 pairings (follow the links for each game) Teimour Radjabov – Richard Rapport / Alireza Firouzja – Fabiano Caruana / Hikaru N

This is the FIDE Candidates 2022 live video with GM Alejandro Ramirez, GM Yasser Seirawan and GM Cristian Chirila, in collaboration with Saint Louis Chess Club and Today in Chess Candidates edition. Round 6 pairings (follow the links for each game): Teimour Radjabov – Richard Rapport / Alireza Firouzja – Fabiano Caruana / 

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

Heading into the 6th round of the FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 Ian Nepomniachthi maintained the sole lead with 3.5 points. Fabiano Caruana is just behind him with 3 points, and three players are tied for third scoring 2.5 points: Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Richard Rapport and Hikaru Nakamura.

In his Chessable recap, Anish Giri reviews all games of round 5 of the FIDE Candidates Chess 2022. New: a special course by Anish Giri on the Candidates

Candidates R5 recap by WGM Anastasiya Karlovich

Replay Round 5:
Fabiano Caruana – Richard Rapport 1/2-1/2
Teimour Radjabov – Ding Liren 1/2-1/2
Alireza Firouzja – Jan-Krzysztof Duda 1/2-1/2

More than 1500 players took part in the Olympiad Torch Run Open Rapid Chess Tournament 2022 which took place at Indira Gandhi International Stadium, New Delhi on 19th June 2022 on the occasion of the first-ever Chess Olympiad Torch Relay.