Welcome to another chess review where we comment on last week’s news from our own club, county, country and the world. We will also take a look at what to expect next week.

In our own club, we celebrated another win for the second team along with the debut of our first female competitor Deepa. Although she had a tough game, we are wishing her many more games to come with many wins to be achieved! For more on the match, follow this link.

For next week, there will be plenty of action for all players with both teams hosted by Market Harborough’s second and third teams on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. On Thursday as usual there will be a club night in the Anstey Methodist Church from 7:30pm. All abilities welcome!

In the county, there were several games played last week. In Division 1, Syston 1 and Shepshed 2 secured wins against Thurnby and Market Harborough 1, respectively. In the second division Loughborough 1 defeated Wigston 2 away while Melton Mowbray’s first won against their own second team. In Division 3 all teams took a break while in the fourth division Braunstone 2 defeated Wigston 4.

In the country, the ECF has announced a new ECF Manager of Arbiters in the face of FA Ravi Sandhu who is replacing IA Alan Atkinson. We wish him long and successful career. More on the story on this link.

Worldwide, the Airthings Masters 2022 finished in a dramatic way after Magnus Carlsen managed to break again Ian Nepomniachtchi in their first meeting after the World Championship 2021. In addition to the Norwegian’s excellent performance, the tournament showcased some great young chess talents such as Andrey Esipenko, Vladislav Artemiev, Vincent Keymer, Eric Hansen and the teenager Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa who managed to defeat the world champion during the prelims. All action was streamed on our own website and a replay of the second day of the final is currently on our home page (to watch it follow this link).