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This is a "No Vacation" tournament!
This is the official 2022 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship. Participants will play 22 games at one time (one as Black, one as White per opponent) at the time control of one day per move in 12-player sections. Please anticipate the challenging schedule; the timeout rate in this tournament is consistently high due to the demanding schedule. Only the section winner(s) advance.
This tournament is expected to complete late in 2022.
Opening databases and opening books are permitted in Daily Chess, but the use of engines and tablebases is never permitted. All section winners will be subjected to fair-play analysis.
Post your most interesting games in the comments and share on Twitter with #dailychess, and we'll publicize the best ones! Selected games win prizes!
Worried you'll forget to move? Turn on your daily chess notifications here!
Questions? See our frequently asked questions for tournaments!
This year the Daily Chess Championship will feature $5,000 in cash prizes. Prizes will be awarded in each round for the best video analyses, blogs, social media posts, and games:
Round 1: 3 video analyses prizes ($100 each), 3 best blog prizes ($100 each), 3 most popular social media post prizes ($100 each), and 10 best game prizes ($100 each)
Round 2: 3 video analyses prizes ($100 each), 3 best blog prizes ($100 each), 3 most popular social media post prizes ($100 each), and 7 best game prizes ($100 each)
Round 3: 2 video analyses prizes ($100 each), 2 best blog prizes ($100 each), 2 most popular social media post prizes ($100 each), and 5 best game prizes ($100 each)
Round 4: 1 video analyses prize ($100), 1 blog prize ($100), 1 social media prize ($100), 1 best game prize ($100)
Prizes will be awarded by a committee of Chess.com staff members. Social media posts will be awarded to the most liked posts on any platform. To be considered for a prize, submit at https://forms.gle/yygmp6q5qJeN6cvr6. Social media posts must use #dailychess to be considered.
Announcements
2022 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship: Round 3 Prize Winners
Round 4 Prize Winners:
Best Game:
Andrei_Belozerov
Social Media Post:
Novik89
Best Blog Post:
EmilioChess
Best Video Analysis:
tsubasaozora
We hope you enjoyed the 2022 Daily Chess Championship. Thanks again for submitting all of your amazing games, blogs, videos, and social media posts.
Hi all,
The Daily Chess Championship Round 3 prize announcement is here. Thank you for all of your entries, and congratulations to all winners!
Best Game (In Alphabetical Order)
Best Blog
- Round 3: a hyper-theoretical slog by dmfox
- CRÓNICA Chess.com Daily Chess Championship 2022 RONDA 3 by emiliochess
Best Video Analysis
Social Media Post
If you see your name on the list, a Chess.com staff member should be reaching out to you shortly for more information.
2022 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship: Round Two Winners
Hi everyone,
We're happy to announce the Daily Chess Championship Round Two prizes. Once again, there were lots of great submissions for the team to review. Thank you for all of your entries!
Here are the winners:
Best Game (In Alphabetical Order)
chuddog
dmfox
gamarix
Ian57575
Kizi22
lucaflute
Novik89
Best Blog
ROUND 2: A Story of 1. b3 by SheldonOfOsaka
Round 2: a lucky, undeserved win by dmfox
CRÓNICA Chess.com Daily Chess Championship 2022 RONDA 2 by emiliochess
Best Video Analysis
Social Media Post
If you see your name on the list, a Chess.com staff member should be reaching out to you shortly for more information.
Congratulations to all of our winners, and we're looking forward to receiving more of your entries for Round Three.
We're still accepting submissions, so send in your best games, social media posts, videos, and blogs!
2022 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship: Round One Winners
Hi everyone,
We're pleased to announce the winners of the Daily Chess Championship Round One prizes.
First of all, apologies for the delay! There were so many great entries that it took us some extra time to go through them all. After careful review, we've identified the very best submissions from all four categories.
To make things smoother (and fairer) for the next round, please note that we'll be limiting 'Best Game' entries to one game per user. So think carefully about your best game before submitting it!
Without further ado, here are the winners for Round One:
Best Game (In Alphabetical Order)
Best Blog
- 2022 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship: Pour Another Round by GrunkleMike
- So here's how my 2022 Daily Chess Champs went… by beccrajoy
- Round 1: a Petrosian-esque Caro-Kann by dmfox
Best Video Analysis
- I blundered my QUEEN in DAILY CHESS. Here's what happened! by HashtagChess
- 2022 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship Round 1 Analysis by pvladim
- Chess.com Daily Chess Championships 2022 Game Analysis Round 1 by HorseyChess
Social Media Post
If you see your name on the list, a Chess.com staff member should be reaching out to you shortly for more information.
Congratulations to all of our winners, and we're looking forward to receiving your entries for Round Two!
The 2022 Daily Chess Championship Starts In ~28 Hours
Hello to all 32,000 fine people who are playing in this year's Daily Chess Championship! We are THRILLED to see such interest in this event and look forward to many exciting games and lots of friendly competition.
As the 2022 Daily Chess Championship's launch is upon us, I want to share a few notes. First and foremost, this is a "no vacation" tournament so you WILL FORFEIT in any game if you do not move within 24 hours of receiving an opponent's move. Do make sure that you log in daily starting on January 1st to make your moves. It would also be wise to turn on daily chess notifications at https://www.chess.com/settings/notifications to make sure that you don't miss any moves. It's also very important to have these notifications turned on if you win your section as subsequent rounds will begin automatically once all games in all sections are completed. It's easy to miss the start of the next round if notifications are off.
As noted in the description, the tournament is demanding, and on January 1st, the server will start all of the games in your section - 22 in total. If the schedule of 22 games at one time seems overwhelming and you no longer wish to play, now is the time "Withdraw" in the upper right at https://www.chess.com/tournament/2022-chess-com-daily-chess-championship.
That said, we certainly hope you do play and have a great time. Here are a few common questions that we get as the tournament gets underway:
- Games will start early on January 1st no earlier than 12:00 a.m. PT but likely several hours later. The starting process with our tournament setup is manual so do be patient as staff sort things out and start the tournament.
- It will take multiple hours for the server to create all the games so don't worry if you see the tournament started, but your games have not yet begun.
- Every time your opponent moves, you have 24 hours to respond. You may use all of your 24 hours or none of it. It is completely at your discretion.
- If any players forfeit on time without moving (and we do typically see plenty of forfeits), it will not affect either players' rating. Once the game is underway, forfeits on time will affect rating.