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Capablanca Memorial 2022 is taking place 19-28 April in La Habana, Cuba. This year the event features strong round robins for men and women as well as an open event. In the men round robin, aka Grupo Elite, the ten players are GM Sandro Mareco, GM Hans Niemann, GM Surya Ganguly, GM Mustafa Yilmaz, GM Vasif Durarbayli, GM Yasser Quesada Pérez, GM Carlos D.

Arjun Erigaisi, who recently won Delhi Chess 2022 and won the MPL Indian Chess Tour first leg, is the top seeded player in Menorca Open 2022. The tournament is going to take place 20-24 April and is going to feature impressive Indian participation – GM Nihal Sarin, GM Gukesh, GM Adhiban, GM Raunak Sadhwani, GM Aryan Chopra, WGM Nandhidhaa are also in the list.

GM Hrant Melkumyan is the winner of the 2022 Doeberl Cup. Melkumyan secured the gold with 7,5/9, ahead of Temur Kuybokarov with 7,0/9. Here are the winners by category

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1st Place: GM Hrant Melkumyan (ARM) 7.5/9

GM Jules Moussard is the winner of the 2022 edition of Open Internacional de ajedrez Semana Santa en Torrevieja. The French Grandmaster collected 8,0/9, half a point ahead of GM Karen Grigoryan and GM Eduardo Iturrizaga. A total of 450 participants entered the event, one of the largest chess opens in recent times.

We have just reached the halfway mark of the TCEC Season 22 Superfinal. Defending champion Stockfish leads Komodo Dragon by 12 points (+17 -5 =28), a dominant performance that all but ensures that it will win the Superfinal. Stockfish signaled its intent straight from the get-go by winning the first opening with its signature move g4!, and reeled off two more opening wins before Komodo Dragon won its first game in game 9.

After the Airthings Masters 2022 and the Charity Cup 2022, both won by Magnus Carlsen, the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour breaks new ground next week with the launch of the first fully in-person esports event in chess – the Oslo Esports Cup. A star-studded gala event will open the tournament as Norway’s World Champion Magnus Carlsen goes for an unprecedented hat-trick of titles in his home city.

Financial Times has published an article, dedicated to the just finished Reykjavik Chess Open and the win of Praggnanandhaa. “Half a century ago, Bobby Fischer captured Boris Spassky’s world title in Reykjavik and sparked a global chess boom,” starts the analysis of FT and continues:

The Doeberl Chess Cup 2022 is going to take place 14-18 April in Canberra, Australia. GM Hrant Melkumyan, the winner of the 2019 Deoberl Cup, is the top seeded in the event. Scroll down for full participants list. Throwback: Nisipeanu and Vajda share first place in 2014

Live games Doeberl Chess Cup 2022

The Mitropa Cup 2022 will be held from 27th April – 8th May in the Sports complex (COSEC) of Corte, Corsica, France. The following chess federations are entitled to take part in the Mitropa Cup 2022: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland.

The VI Open Internacional de ajedrez Semana Santa en Torrevieja (Alicante) 2022 is going to take place 13-17 April in Spain. A total of 450 players from 41 countries will participate in the event, including 19 GMs and 23 IMs. Top seeded is GM Karen Grigoryan, while the young U18 star GM Daniel Dardha is 8th seeded.

VI Open Internacional de ajedrez Semana Santa en Torrevieja (Alicante) 2022 participants