CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -GM Magnus Carlsen earned the 2022 FIDE World Blitz Championship title on Friday with a score of 16/21, one point ahead of silver medalist GM Hikaru Nakamura and bronze medalist on tiebreak, GM Haik Martirosyan.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wesley So wins FIDE Grand Prix Berlin. The last battle of the entire 2022 FIDE Grand Prix series organised by World Chess has finished on the 4th of April. In the final match tiebreaker, Wesley So outplayed Hikaru Nakamura by a score of 1½:½ and won the third leg of the Grand Prix in Berlin.

Detailed explanation-3: -India will be hosting prestigious chess tournament FIDE Women’s Grand Prix early next year, a top official of the All India Chess Federation (AICF) said on Monday.

Detailed explanation-4: -From 1927 to 1939, one player dominated them all: British-Czechoslovak-Russian Vera Menchik. She won the first Women’s World Championship and successfully defended her title six times in every tournament held during her life.