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The World Rapid and Blitz Championships were officially opened in Almaty on 25th December.

The 30th edition of the FIDE World Senior Championship began in Assisi, Italy. The country is hosting this event for the eighth time. After the tournaments in Arco (2001), Lignano Sabbiadoro (2005), Arvier (2006), Condino (2009), Arco (2010), Acqui Terme (2015 and 2017), Assisi, the capital of Umbria, a small town in the heart of Italy, picked up the baton. | Photo: FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich makes the first ceremonial move in the game between GM John Nunn (ENG) and FM Sameer Sursock (LBN) | Photo: FIDE

It seems we have arrived at the strongest of all chess star signs. No less than three World Champions are Scorpios - Mikhail Tal, Alexander Alekhine, and Raoul Capablanca - and there are several other top players joining them - Ding Liren, Alexander Grischuk, Vincent Keymer, Lev Polugaevsky, Salo Flohr, and Ernst Grünfeld - to name but a few. But why are scorpions so brutally strong?| Photo: Pixabay

An Armageddon game decided the Fischer Random World Championship 2022. In the finals of the World Championship Hikaru Nakamura played against Ian Nepomniachtchi and after a 2-2 tie in the four games of the initial mini-match, an Armageddon game had to decide. Here, Nakamura won with White to become new Fischer Random World Champion. The placement matches all ended 3:1: Magnus Carlsen won against Nodirbek Abdusattorov and came third, Vladimir Fedoseev beat Wesley So and came fifth, Matthias Blübaum made it to 7th place with his win against Hjorvar Steinn Gretarsson. | Foto: FIDE / Lennart ...

The Fischer Random World Chess Championship 2022 will have a new champion. Wesley So did not manage to go out of the groups, finishing 3rd in the group stage. However, this takes away just a pinch of the excitement, as the semi finals will see the participants in the last World Chess Championship – the […]