Hikaru Nakamura is granted wild card to FIDE Grand Prix
Hikaru Nakamura has been selected as the Presidential nominee to be one of the 24 participants in the FIDE Grand Prix, organized by World Chess. The series will take place in February — April of 2022 and will consist of three tournaments: two in Berlin and one in Belgrade. Not having played any official rated game […]
European Rapid and Blitz Championships: Duda and Motylev win titles
The European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2021 finished on Sunday, December 19 in Katowice, Poland, after three days of play. After 11 double rounds in the Swiss blitz tournament, Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland) came out on top with 18 points. It was not an easy walk for the rating favourite as his compatriot Maciej Klekowski was hard on his […]