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The first event of the Southeast Asian Games 2022 (standard individual tournament), concluded today in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. The event was played in two sections: Open and Women’s, from May 10-15, 2022. The Individual Rapid chess championship of the SEA Games starts tomorrow and will be played on 16-17 May, followed by the Individual Blitz championship and team rapid and blitz tournaments.

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the Grand Chess Tour Romania 2022, the first event of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour series.

The National Open, Women’s and Senior Chess Championships of South Africa took place from 7-14 May in Cape Town. The Open and Seniors events were played in 9 round robin rounds, while the Women’s event had 8 players who battled it out through 7 round robin rounds.

After an intense and final day of the Superbet Chess Classic Bucharest, three players tied for first with 5.5/9.

A few days ago, one of the most popular American models – Cindy Crawford was spotted playing chess with her daughter Kaia Gerber who follows the mother’s steps in modeling. The Instagram post of Cindy’s husband Rande Gerber became viral and spread all over the social networks and various internet portals.

The first event of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour series is coming to an end as the last round is underway in Bucharest. Levon Aronian and Wesley So headed into the last round in the co-lead scoring 5/8 points and none of them didn’t manage to score the full point in the last round. Two draws in the last round secure the co-lead for Aronian and So, meaning that the playoff match will determine the Winner of the Superbet Chess Classic 2022.

The “ChessMood” International Open Chess Tournament will take place from September 29 to October 09 at the 5 star Tsaghkadzor Marriott Hotel in Armenia.

Uganda Olympiad Qualifiers event, determining the composition of both Women’s and Men’s Uganda Teams, took place in March this year. The event had 14 players in both Open and Women’s sections who battled it out through 13 rounds played in a round-robin system. The top five players of each section made it to the team and will represent Uganda in the 2022 Chess Olympiad in Chennai.

The Chess in school conference under the name “Chess: a Game to be spread in Schools” (CGS) has started in Zurich and takes place on 14th of May, in Dorint Airport Hotel.

The Conference features the following themes:

GM Judit Polgar, the best female chess player of all times, yesterday paid a visit to the Real Madrid home stadium Santiago Bernabéu. The President of Real Madrid CF, Florentino Perez, hosted the chess legend presenting her the Real Madrid shirt holding her name. Judit Polgar later followed the La Liga match between Real Madrid and Levante together with 38000 visitors, enjoying the hometeam’s victory of 6-0.