What a yr this has been for chess! We haven’t one, however two world championship challengers because the World Champion Magnus Carlsen stepped away from the competitors. A brand new wave of expertise from Uzbekistan, India, and different nations took the world by storm within the Olympiad. GM Hikaru Nakamura grew to become the second Fischer Random World Champion… 

And on high of that, on-line chess is stronger than ever! Chess content material creators are catching the media’s consideration like by no means earlier than—assume Botez sisters making it onto Forbes’ 30 Under 30 record. And chess occasions went large, with the Chess.com Global Championship, a stacked Speed Chess Championship, and the Candidates main the way in which. 

But what have been one of the best issues involving chess in 2022? That’s so that you can determine!

It’s time to forged your vote for the 2022 Chess.com Awards! If a specific recreation has blown you away or for those who actually appreciated all of the laborious work of your favourite content material creator, now could be the time to let the world know. This yr, you possibly can forged a vote for any (or all) of the next classes: 

• Game of the Year 
• Player of the Year 
• Rising Star 
• Tournament of the Year
• Creator of the Year 
• Commentator of the Year 
• Move of the Year 
• Computer Game of the Year
• Book of the Year

Fill out the official Chess.com Awards type beneath to forged your vote. You needn’t vote for all classes, however we’ll award 10 diamond memberships (one 1-year, 4 6-months, 5 3-months) to random respondents who vote for all of the classes. Voting closes on December 31, so ensure you forged your vote right now!

Please word that we needed to make some small changes to the voting type after we printed it this morning. We apologize to those that voted between 10:00 a.m. and 10:09 a.m. PT, and we kindly ask them to vote once more.