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Georgian Club Chess Championship 2014 is taking place from 26th September to 4th October 2014 in Ureki, a town in Georgia situated on the Black Sea coast.

The event is a 7-round Team Championship with round-robin format. The time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds increment starting from move 1.

The FIDE Grand Prix starts the new season 2014-2015 with the first tournament to be held in Baku (Azerbaijan) from 1-15th October 2014.

The 40th Berger Paints National ‘A’ Chess Championship 2014 is organised by Bangladesh Chess Federation and sponsored by Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited from 20th September 2014 to 10th October 2014 at the Media Center of Bangladesh Olympic Association in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

The 40th Berger Paints National ‘A’ Chess Championship-2014 is organised by Bangladesh Chess Federation and sponsored by Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited from 20th September 2014 to 4th October 2014 at the Media Center of Bangladesh Olympic Association in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

14 players, including four GMs, one IM, four FMs and 2 CMs, are playing in a round-robin system.

Top seed is last year’s winner GM Al-Rakib Abdulla (2521), Bangladesh best player.

Chess in Schools and Communities announced the 6th London Chess Classic which will take place on 6-14th December at the Olympia Conference Centre in Kensington, London.

The Rapid Match Alexei Shirov vs Evgeny Sveshnikov 2014 is taking place on 26-28th September 2014 in the Latvian capital Riga.

The event is played in a 6-round format with a time control 50′ + 10″.

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The Annual Women’s Tournament Satka Autumn 2014 is organized by Chess Club “Vertical” on 20-30th September 2014 in Satka, a town on the western slope of the Southern Ural Mountains in Russia.

32 female players are vying in a 9-round Swiss format.

The first Russian Chess Museum was opened on 25th September in the renovated halls of the historic mansion on Gogol Boulevard in Moscow.

The new capital Museum will be the successor to the chess Museum facilities, which were situated at the Central House of Chess in the 80s of the 20th century.

The 16th International Réunion Island Open will take place from 18th to 25th October at the Salle des Fetes de Bellepierre in Saint-Denis, Réunion Island.

The tournament is organized by the Echiquier du Nord and will be held over 9 rounds of Swiss system.

The prize fund is 6600 EUR, with the top seven prizes being 1200 / 1000 / 800 / 600 / 500 / 400 / 300 EUR. There are also special prizes for Women, Veterans, Reunion players, Clubs and elo categories.