#GibChess Battle of the Sexes - 24 January - 3 February 2022 - Introduction

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 a6?! Aditya Mittal vs Daniel Dardha |Sunway Sitges 2021 Blitz

Loek or Hans, Who comes back from 1 sec several times to finish an intense blitz with a checkmate

Round 2 report of the #GibChess Battle of the Sexes tournament by John Saunders - another amazing day for Team Pia, defeating Team Sabino by 6.5-3.5 at Gibraltar Garrison Library

https://gibchess.com/bos-2022-round-2

👏Congratulations to GM Hikaru Nakamura for coming back and taking first 🏆 in January's last #TitledTuesday 👏!

Starting next week, there will be two Titled Tuesdays each time!

Read more ➡️ https://www.chess.com/news/view/titled-tuesday-doubles-tournaments-and-triples-prizes

Fridrik Olafsson, the legendary Icelandic grandmaster and former FIDE president, was born on this day in 1935.
He was the first top-class chess player from this small nation, which would later grow to become a noteworthy chess power; he is immensely respected in his homeland.

Fridrik won the Icelandic Championship 6 times, was twice the Nordic Champion, and participated in several top events, including a Candidates tournament (1959) and 2 Interzonals. He succeeded Max Euwe as FIDE President in 1978, and served in this post until 1982.
Happy birthday!🎂🎉

Russia's No 12 Alexey Sarana turns 22 years old today!

In July 2019, Sarana won the Russian Championship Higher League qualifying for the Superfinals of the Russian men's Chess championship for the 2nd year in a row.

Magnus Carlsen was already getting ready for a possible 2-horse race with Anish Giri when he joked about his rival's free point against Daniil Dubov! Round 9 report:

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/tata-steel-9-carlsen-teases-giri-as-both-win

♟💙 | Game of the day - round 10: Sergey Karjakin - Magnus Carlsen. Can Karjakin come close to the leader of the #TataSteelChess tournament?

♟💙 | Round 10 of the #TataSteelChess Tournament starts at 14:00 (CET) Follow the game via the international livestream

Nakamura knightmare for Michalik | Nakamura vs Michalik | World Blitz 2021

Happy birthday to FIDE Vice President Anastasia Sorokina! 🎂🎉

Sorokina is a WIM, an International Arbiter with many major events under her belt, a chess coach, and an experienced organizer.

"The combination of human curiosity and a powerful reinforcement learning system allowed us to reimagine what chess would have looked like if history had taken a slightly different course."

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/2/258230-reimagining-chess-with-alphazero/fulltext

Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero

Ulrich Paquet, Nenad Tomašev, and Vladimir Kramnik discuss "Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero," a Contributed Article in the February 2022 CACM.

Tata Steel Chess 2022 R10: Black Is OK

Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin called it a day after 18 minutes: draw