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The 16th International Chess Festival of Trieste is scheduled to take place from 30th August to 6th September 2014 in the city of Trieste, Italy.

The 56th International Chess Festival of Imperia will be held from 31st August to 7th September at the Palazzetto dello Sport, Località San Lazzaro, in Imperia, Italy.

The 5th International Chess Festival “Yaroslav the Wise” featured a tournament of six European Chess Champions in the period 2009-2014.

The double round robin rapid event with the time control 15′+10” was held on 26-27th August at the Yaroslavl State Historical and Architectural Museum.

The Royal Moroccan Federation of Chess has the honor to invite all Chess Federations in Zone 4.1 affiliated to FIDE, to participate in the 2014 Zone 4.1 Open and Women Championships.

The 21st Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival Masters Tournament is taking place from 20-29th August at the Abu Dhabi Chess & Culture Club in United Arab Emirates.

The main event of the Festival is Masters Tournament for foreign players rated above 2000 elo and all Abu Dhabi players.

Heading into the final round Indian Grandmasters Gopal G.N. 2558 and Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2602 are sharing the lead with 6,5 points each.

Harika Dronavalli from India defeated Nafisa Muminova from Uzbekistan to become the sole leader after two rounds of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix in Sharjah, UAE.

Harika’s compatriot Humpy Koneru recovered after the unfortunate start and confidently won against Alina L’Ami.

There were two more decisive games as Anna Ushenina and Ju Wenjun outplayed Elina Danielian and Zhu Chen respectively.

The 2014 Sinquefield Cup will be the strongest chess tournament in the history of chess, bringing six of the world’s top-nine Grandmasters together at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.

The organizers of Tata Steel Chess tournament (Wijk-aan-Zee) and the ACP are glad to announce the start of cooperation, commencing from the next edition of Tata Steel Chess in January 2015.

The Ferrari online store is offering a luxurious chess and draughts set made from carbon fibre covered wood, personalized with the enamelled metal Ferrari shield on the front.

The playing board alternates squares in carbon fibre and fibreglass.

The chess pieces inside are made from black and red varnished wood. The knight piece is inspired by the PH.

It also comes with 16 black and 16 red pieces to play draughts.

GM Sanan Sjugirov (Russia) and WIM Klaudia Kulon (Poland) are champions of the 13th World University Chess Championship 2014 that took place from 17th to 24th August 2014 at the Conference Center of the Park Hotel Diament Katowice in the splendid city of Katowice, Poland.