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We cannot help but put Danny Gormally’s tweet in our Tweet of the Day column. Discussing the new “world champion” title, Danny Gormally in a sarcastic answer to Jon Ludvig Hammer says, “I have crowned myself world champion of my bedroom.” Thank you Danny, now we are all champions!

For many days after the appearance of another “world champion” title, the governing body of chess FIDE is silent on the issue. FIDE’s silence has spurred into multiple theories ranging from FIDE’s looming bankruptcy to direct correlations with the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Read more: “Chess.com” world championship might open up a Pandora’s box / Video announcement of the “Chess.com world championship” / FIDE silent on the creation of another “world championship”

MrDodgy Invitational 3.0 is going to take place in 2022. The announcement comes from the Tournament Director and CEO of Chefable, MrDogy himself. A real upgrade in the event is planned, changing the motto from “Bigger Better Harder” to “Bigger, Better, Realer“.

Continuing the amazing line of April Fool’s humor renaming Chessable ot Chefable, the @ChefableWTF announced, “We’re pleased to announce the first-ever Chefable World Champignonship!

Magnus Carlsen upped his game for the big occasion today as he ended young pretender Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa’s unbeaten streak to go level at the top of the Oslo Esports Cup leaderboard. The World Champion shrugged off the illness he has suffered since the start of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour event to brush aside the challenge of the in-form Indian teen with a dominant 3-0 win.

The 15th edition of the Serbian National Youth Chess Festival commenced today in Novi Sad with the Serbian Youth Rapid Chess Championship 2022.

The 1st “Mikis Theodorakis” international chess tournament kicked off today in Chania, a city on the northwest coast of the Greek island of Crete.

The event takes place from April 25 to May 1 and it will be played in 9 rounds, Swiss system. 73 players from 11 countries take part in the event fighting for the total prize fund of 2.600 euros.

Starting rank list of players:

Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is “having fun” after recording a third straight match-win today to continue his perfect start to the elite Oslo Esports Cup. India’s 16-year-old superstar-in-the-making is the only player with 9/9 points and has won the maximum $22,500 so far after he crushed Liem Quang Le with a game to spare. Pragg now faces World Champion Magnus Carlsen in Round 4. Beat Carlsen, as he did two months ago, and the youngster will be the hot favorite to win the first Major of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour season.

Have you ever wondered what would Anish Giri do if he weren’t a professional chess player? Anish Giri answers 9 questions we all thought about: