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The Peruvian Open and Women’s National Chess Championships 2022 will take place from 17-22 May in Lima.
LIVE now: Czech National Chess Championship 2022

The Czech National Open Chess Championship 2022 is an open tournament taking place from 14-22 May 2022 in Usti nad Labem.

15-year-old Indian grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju showed an amazing performance this summer winning three open tournaments in Spain: 1st Chessable Sunway Formentera Chess Festival 2022, 1st Menorca Chess Open 2022 and the 48th La Roda Open 2022.

The 2022 US National Elementary (K-6) Chess Championships took place from 13-15 May in Columbus Ohio’s Greater Columbus Convention Center.

The event gathered 1053 players and 472 teams from 40 states who fought for the National US Champion title in four sections: K-1, K-3, K-5 and K-6. The special guests of the event were: GM Josh Friedel, GM Elshan Moradiabadi, WGM Katerina Nemcova, FM Gauri Shankar and Danny Rohde. (scroll down for final rankings)

After returning from the April holidays, the students of the Roger-Martin-du-Gard college in Belleme, west France, were able to take advantage of the gift offered by the socio-educational center – a giant chessboard painted on the floor of the school playground!

As part of the school project that aims to develop all students’ academic ambition, it was decided to make a giant chess set in the schoolyard, offering students to play outdoor chess during the breaks of school hours.

The 79th LOTTO Polish Championship and the 74th Polish Women’s Chess Championship simultaneously take place in Kruszwica, from 9-17 May 2022.

The award named after Serbian grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric was established by FIDE in 2012. FIDE General Assembly in 2012 has accepted the proposal of the Serbian Chess Federation to establish the award for fair play which would be named after the legendary Svetozar Gligoric who passed away earlier that year. The FIDE Presidental Board decided to reestablish the award setting the clear nomination process in 2019.

True to her Petrosian-esque reputation of a strong match player who does not often win tournaments, Leela Chess Zero defeated Komodo Dragon 54.5-45.5 (+24 -15 =61) to win the TCEC Subfinal. The match started out closely contested, with Leela scoring wins in games 1 & 5 before Komodo Dragon evened the score with its own wins in games 7 & 13.

The 10th jubilee edition of the TCEC Cup starts this Tuesday at 17.00 UTC (19:00 CEST, 13:00 ET). The best 32 engines are going to meet in a direct knockout event. Top seeded is the winner of TCEC Cup 9 and the TCEC League – Stockfish. The other participants are seeded by their final standing in the league season. Scroll down for the full list below.

The Ontario Open Chess Tournament will take place from May 21 through May 23, at the beautiful West Toronto Masonic Temple.

The event features 4 tournaments: Crown, U2200, U1800 and U1400. Each tournament will be played in six rounds with a time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds per move. The total prize fund of the event will be 8.500$.