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The Grand Chess Tour Romania 2022 commenced today in Bucharest, Hungary. Following last year’s popular classical framework, the event gathers ten players competing in a classical round-robin struggle for the $350,000 in prize money. Replay the Round 1 games

Fabiano Caruana, Richard Rapport and Leinier Dominguez Perez shared their opinion about the Romanian Parliament venue which hosts the GCT Romania 2022.

The Latvian Chess Championship 2022 and Latvian Women’s Chess Championship 2022 took place from April 27 – May 4 in Riga.

GM Ilmars Starostits convincingly won the men’s championship scoring 8/9 points. Starostits became the Latvian Champion for the second time in his career, 20 years after his first National triumph in 2002.

The 44th Chess Olympiad starts on July 28 in Chennai, India. A good three months in advance, the German Chess Federation disclosed the team composition for the Open section:

The famous chess streamer and the women’s grandmaster Qiyu Zhou (AkaNemsko) will be the part of Canada Women’s Team for the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai.

Leading off the 2022 Grand Chess Tour will be the Superbet Chess Classic held from 3-15 May in Bucharest, Romania.

The 2022 Romanian Grand Prix series kicked off with the Super Chess Rapid tournament which took place from April 30 to May 1 in Bucharest, shortly before the start of the 1st Grand Chess Tour event in Romania.

Three months before the start of the 44th Chess Olympiad 2022, the compositions of Indian teams have been announced. Two teams in each Open and Women’s section will represent India in Chennai from July 28 to August 10.

The National Chess Championship of Malawi took place at the Grand Palace Hotel in Mzuzu from 14th to 18th April 2022.

The event served as a qualification for the 44th Chess Olympiad with the top 5 players in each category making it to the national team. Twenty-six players battled it out in the Open and 13 in the Women’s section.

The Japan Chess Championship 2022 was held from April 30 to May 4 in Tokyo with participation of 63 players and a total prize fund of 100.000 yen.

The Sri Lanka National Chess Championships 2022, with a half-million rupees prize fund, took place from April 23 to May 1 in the Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research Institute, Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo. Both tournaments, organized by the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka, were 14-players round-robins with classical time control.