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The 1st Chessable Sunway Formentera Chess Festival starts tomorrow in Formentera – the smallest Spanish Balearic island in the Mediterranean Sea. The Festival takes place from April 29 to May 8 with a total prize fund of 20.500 euros and a wide range of events.

The main events are Open tournaments: A and B, being played in 10 rounds, swiss system. 51 players from 20 countries will compete in the A tournament, including 33 titled players.

Starting rank list 1st Chessable Sunway Open A:

Both GM Fabiano Caruana and GM Irina Krush managed to qualify to the finals in day 6 of the American Cup, after drawing the second game and avoiding a playoff in their Champions Bracket matches against GM Leinier Dominguez and FM Alice Lee. In the Elimination Bracket, GM Levon Aronian defeated GM Ray Robson 2-0, while WGM Tatev Abrahamyan ended up winning a playoff against WGM Begim Tokhirjonova. Taking place tomorrow will be the finals of the Elimination Bracket, with Aronian facing Dominguez and Lee taking on Abrahamyan for one more chance at overall tournament victory.

Now close to a week after the creation of a new world championship , there is no official reaction by FIDE. This middleground of no rectification by Chess.com and no reaction by FIDE only fuels the rumors on behind the scenes deals, while at the same time the attrition to the image of chess and the World Champion title.

Devaluation of chess titles, disrespect to history, possibility for behind the scenes deals, confusion. These are just some of the issues pointed out by chess fans on the internet regarding the recent decision of Chess.com to hold “Chess.com world championship”. For those knowing chess history and possessing knowledge of the foundations of the chess world, the handing of another non-FIDE “world champion” title is a huge multi-level problem that might open up a Pandora’s box.

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.