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Following detailed discussions with all parties concerned regarding the new wave of Covid19 appearing in China, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Executive Board decided to postpone the 19th Asian Games, which were scheduled to be held in Hangzhou from 10 to 25 September 2022.

The 5th edition of the Sharjah Chess Masters international tournament will be held from 20th-30th May in Sharjah Cultural & Chess Club.

The event will be held as an Invitational Tournament, with (maximum) 80 players of FIDE standard rating of 2300 and above, as of May 2022 FIDE rating list.  Out of these 80 players, the 60 were selected by the middle of April 2022 and the rest 20 were given Wild Card participation permission.

The 2022 Open and Women’s Chess Championships of North Macedonia concluded yesterday in Skopje. The events simultaneously took place in Hotel Continental, being played from April 29 – May 5.

59 players competed in the 9 round swiss system Open tournament, while 12 women played the 7 rounds swiss system Women’s Championship.

The Grand Chess Tour kicked off with its first event of the tour –  the 2022 Superbet Chess Classic – a 10-player classical round-robin event taking place in Bucharest, Romania.

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.