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404 international players from 60 clubs and 31 European federations have registered to compete at the European Chess Club Cup, which will take place in Bilbao from 14 to 20 September 2014.

The FIDE General Assembly will start on Monday 11th August at 9am. Already in the first session FIDE elections will take place, as a culmination of the campaign that started in Tallinn last year.

In the last day before the elections, both campaigns have issued open letters that address the election procedures.

The 24th FIDE World Senior Chess Championships are scheduled to take place from 23rd October to 5th November at the conference center of the 5-star hotel “Mediterranean Village” in Katerini, Greece.

The World Senior Chess Championships are open to all players, regardless of rating and title, who have reached the age of 50 and represent National Chess Federations which are members of FIDE. There is no limit in the number of participants per federation.

The 23rd Open International Tournament of Kavala took place on 2-9th August 2014 at the Foyer of Kavala Prefecture Amphitheater in Kavala, a city in northern Greece.

The Fidefirst campaign team has published in one of its daily bulletins a shocking letter by the ECU Executive Director.

The FIDE World Chess Championship match Carlsen – Anand 2014 is coming this November.

The Russian Chess Federation has filed a lawsuit against the COT2014 – organizers of the Chess Olympiad – in the local Tromsø court, Newsinenglish.no reported.

Russian newswire ITAR-TASS reports that Andrey Filatov, President of the Russian Chess Federation, has made a statement noting that FIDE presidential candidate Garry Kasparov’s comment that the Russian women’s national team should have been banned from the World Chess Olympiad appears both insensitive and inappropriate.

World #2 Levon Aronian headlined as the lead instructor for the 2014 Metropolitan & ACA Summer Chess Camp, held in Glendale, California from July 9th-13th. This was the first joint effort between Metropolitan Chess and American Chess Academy, a local educational organization based in Los Angeles.

Chessbet.com, the site that allows you to freely predict the outcome of chess events, has launched several quizzes for the Chess Olympiad.