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The Czech National Chess Championship 2022 took place from 14-22 May 2022 in Usti nad Labem. The best rated Czech player, GM David Navara, won the tournament to become Czech National Chess Champion for the 11th time in his career.
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The Czech Women’s Chess Championship 2022 kicked off in Jaromerice nad Rokytnou, taking place from 21-29 May.

The 1/8 finals of the jubilee edition of the TCEC Cup are history. The 16 best engines from the TCEC S22 qualified for this round without trouble. The league winner Stockfish, the Superfinal participant KomodoDragon, and the subfinal winner Lc0 had no problems in their matches, winning with significant margin. Stoofvlees, Slowchess, and Igel followed suit.

Magnus Carlsen played one of the worst possible opening moves and still secured his place in the Chessable Masters knockout on a day his Dutch rival Anish Giri powered into the lead.

The rapid portion of Superbet Rapid and Blitz Poland came to an end with GM Vishy Anand winning the rapid section, though his two points lead was diminished to one after the Indian legend conceded his first loss in the last round to his closest rival GM Richard Rapport.

The Slovak Youth Chess Championships 2022 take place from 21–28 May 2022 in Ľubovnianske kúpele. The event is played in 6 age categories: U8, U10, U12, U14, U16 & U18, open and girls sections separately.

South Sudan determined the team for the upcoming 44th Chess Olympiad 2022 after the selection process which featured three tournaments.

More than 120 players took part in the first phase with the top 40 proceeding to the second stage. The second event determined 12 players who competed in the final 11 rounds round robin event for five seats in the South Sudan National Team. The 6th player will be the team’s captain.

The 31st edition of the annual Chicago open will be held from 26-30 May in Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel.

The event features 8 tournaments being played in different rating categories: Open (for players rated 2200+ UCF), U2300, U2100, U1900, U1700, U1500, U1300 and U1000. The total prize fund of the events is 100.000$ with 10.000$ reserved for the winner of the Open event.

The Ukrainian Grandmaster Andrii Baryshpolets is running for president of FIDE in the upcoming presidential elections during the Chess Olympiad 2022. Baryshpolets announced today his intention to challenge Dvorkovich, pointing corruption practices, systematic reputational issues, misrepresentation of federations, and failures to observe democratic, liberal and corporate governance principles.

Martin B. Justesen is an avid chess player from Denmark. Justesen is a chess author who published seven chess books and he creates content about his own journey towards chess improvement on Youtube, Twitch, and his newsletter saychess.substack.com. For years the brand of his social media accounts and the newsletter says #SayChess – exactly what Arkady Dvorkovich chose to be the motto of the new campaign for 2022 FIDE elections.