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Hikaru Nakamura and Welsey So drew their second game in the final match of the third stage of the FIDE Grand Prix organised by World Chess. The winner of the event will be determined tomorrow in a tiebreaker. Hikaru Nakamura picked White for the first rapid game against Wesley So during the drawing of lots procedure. It was a short draw in the Berlin Variation of the Ruy Lopez today, where both players deviated from the playable lines and quickly entered a famous drawish variation.

Ding Liren needs to paly a total of 26 classical games to qualify for the Candidates 2022. After Nakamura and Rapport qualified from the Grand Prix, only one spot remains open – that of Sergey Karjakin, who was banned by FIDE for 6 months.

After a long theoretical debate, Wesley So and Hikaru Nakamura drew the first game in the final of the third leg of the FIDE Grand Prix Series organized by World Chess. Hikaru Nakamura will have white pieces in the second game of the mini-match.

Bharat Singh Chauhan and Arkady Dvorkovich signed the contract for the Chess Olympiad 2022 in Chennai. Here is the video of the moment of the signing of the Chess Olympiad Chennai contract. Read the full news here

FIDE and India agreed this March 15th that the Chess Olympiad 2022 will be moved to Chennai.

The 3rd edition of the Gujarat International GrandMaster Chess Open is going to take place March 31 – April 7 in Karnavati Club, S.G.Highway, Ahmedabad. A total of 377 players of which 60 titled are going to participate. Top seeded are GM Neuris Delgado Ramirez, GM Boris Savchenko, GM Stany, and GM Bharathakoti Harsha.

India’s own elite online chess tour starts on March 31 with a star-studded line-up of 16 top talents from every corner of the country.

Wesley So defeated Sam Shankland in the rapid tiebreak games by a score of 1½:½ to reach the semifinals of the third stage of the FIDE Grand Prix Series organised by World Chess in Berlin. The tiebreak games were played with the quicker time control of 15 minutes per game with an increment of 10 seconds per move starting from the first move. In the second tiebreak match, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the first game against Vincent Keymer, but the 16-years-old local hero managed to win on demand and levelled the score.

Grandmaster and National Champion Arjun Erigaisi came up with another inspired effort and crashed through the defenses of Karthik Venkataraman to annex the 19th Delhi International open chess tournament that concluded here at the Tivoli Gardens.

Hikaru Nakamura and Richard Rapport are officially in the Candidates Chess 2022.