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The 15th European Individual Women’s Chess Championship was held from 5th to 18th July 2014, in Plovdiv, the second-largest city in Bulgaria and one of the oldest in the world.

The format of the tournament was an 11-round Swiss with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds increment starting from move 1.

The news related to the exclusion of the nine teams from the Chess Olympiad 2014 continue coming.

A few hours after giving an exclusive interview for Chessdom.com where he confirmed the Olympiad will not be moved from Tromso, the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov issued a strong reaction to

Goran Urosevic: Mr Ilyumzhinov, thank you for taking time for this quick interview. Let’s start with the hottest topic of Chess Olympiad in Tromso.

The TCEC Grand champion Stockfish, modification 260614, maintains the lead in TCEC Season 6 – FRC after 26 rounds.

The 23rd Macedonian Team Chess Championship 2014 is taking place on 14-20th July 2014 at the Hotel Drim in Struga, a popular touristic town in the Republic of Macedonia, lying on the shore of Lake Ohrid.

The Tromsø Chess Olympiad organisers have written to FIDE on Wednesday to confirm their decision to exclude ten teams

The Russian news agency Itar-Tass revealed the list of teams excluded from the 2014 Tromso Chess Olympiad.

Men: Cambodia, Central African Republic, Gabon, Côte d’Ivoire, Oman, Pakistan, Senegal

Women: Russia, Afganistan

The Canadian Youth Chess Championships is the most prestigious annual national youth chess tournament in Canada. The tournament is being held from July 15 to 18, 2014 at the renowned five stars hotel, the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth.