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Diego Rasskin Gutman @drasskin provides us with useful tips on where to go while staying in Madrid for the FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022. Only chess nut locals know about the hidden place in El Retiro Madrid’s park where you can play chess in the shade of amazing pine trees.

It is not unknown that Richard Rapport likes to show the last fashion outfits at the elite chess tournaments. But who chooses his outfits? Answering @nigarhan questions, Rapport disclosed he is very much into fashion and that his wife WGM Jovana Rapport helps him choose what to wear.

FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 is breaking interest records before it actually started. A massive interest is building up in the audience in what can be the most unpredictable Candidates of recent years. We feel the heat here at Chessdom as one day before the start of the event 186 and news articles and 56 game articles on the topic have generated close to 500 000 visits! We are used to seeing such numbers for the Chess Olympiad or the World Chess Championship, but never for a Candidates tournament, a day before it starts.

Skolkovo foundation published news back in April 2021 that Ian Nepomniachtchi uses Zhores Supercomputer to prepare for FIDE Candidates Tournament and FIDE World Championship Match against Magnus Carlsen. Peter Heine Nielsen wrote about the case which could be problematic as FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich heads the Skolkovo Foundation. “If any from the FIDE leadership is helping a player this time, it should be declared“, said Nielsen.

The final preparations for the live broadcast of the most anticipated tournament of 2022 – the FIDE Candidates Chess are being done in Madrid.

Everything is ready for the start of the most anticipated tournament of 2022 – the FIDE Candidates Chess. The Opening Press Conference announced the start of the competition which will be officially opened tonight at 19:00 CET.

The 2022 European Corporate Chess Championship takes place over the weekend 18-19 June in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

The tournament is played on a luxury cruise ship of Royal Spido (named James Cook), while sailing in the Rotterdam harbour. 17 teams will participate in the event which will be played in 9 rounds, Swiss system, with time control: 15 minutes for the whole game, plus 5 seconds of an increment starting from the move one.

The tickets for the FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 are sold, and many fans were not able to fulfill their dream of visiting the tournament. Therefore it was decided to open the Fan Zone space at the ARGO Club (Asociacion Racional de Gastronomia y Ocia), offering an entire floor for chess fans who will be able to follow broadcasts of the games live, analyze and play chess.

The Opening Press Conference of the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2022 took place today in the venue of the event with presence of Deputy Minister of Sports for the regional government at Comunidad de Madrid Alberto Tome Gonzalez, FIDE Managing Director Dana Reizniece-Ozola and GM Fabiano Caruana.

German grandmaster Alexander Donchenko scored incredible 7/7 points playing the first table for Vandoeuvre-Echecs team at the French Top 16 Team Championship. The team finished in 4th place after the pool stage of the event, but attracted lots of attention thanks to the Board 1 team’s leader.