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The 4th All-Russian Summer Chess Universiade is taking place on 1-6th July at the Nezhmetdinov Chess School in Kazan.

The tournament format is 7-round Swiss in Open and Girls sections with the time control 60 min + 5 sec. The players from the same teams will not be paired one against another.

There will be individual and team medals. Winners in the team standings are decided by the highest number of points scored by all team members.

TCEC Grand Champion Stockfish, modification 260614, leads FRC aka Chess960 with perfect 4/4 score.

The 4th Lev Polugaevsky Memorial is taking place on 2–10th July at the Polugaevsky Chess Club in Samara. The tournament is the 5th stage of this year’s Cup of Russia.

You can find the list of participants here.

- This promotional delegation, sponsored by Be Basque, presented this morning in Moscow the sports event that in September will put Bilbao in the spotlight as world chess capital.

- The aim of this presentation, attended by authorities, sports teams and tour operators, was to attract the participation of Russian clubs in the European Chess Club Cup and, at the same time, to promote Bilbao and Biscay as a destination in this emerging tourist market.

Men’s and women’s Russian Championship Superfinal will this year be held in Kazan, the Russian Chess Federation CEO Mark Glukhovsky confirmed for R-Sport.

Kazan is a beautiful city with rich chess tradition, Glukhovsky noted. He added that only the chess school named after Rashid Nezhmetdinov has more than one thousand students.

The sixth edition of Abierto International Chess Tournament Carlos I took part from 21st to 29th June 2014 at Hotel Carlos I in Sanxenso, a municipality in Galicia, Spain.

The event was a 9 round Swiss with a time control 90′ + 30″.

The 2014 Commonwealth Chess Championships are being held at Glasgow City College, in Glasgow, Scotland, from 30 June to 8 July 2014.

Last-year’s winner GM Abhijeet Gupta is top seeded.

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The 4th Lev Polugaevsky Memorial is taking place on 2–10th July at the Polugaevsky Chess Club in Samara. The tournament is the 5th stage of this year’s Cup of Russia.

A big field of 139 participants testifies of the popularity of chess in this region. 17 Grandmasters and 12 International Masters honor the memory of the legendary Soviet player.

The 2nd D.C. International was held from June 26-30, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Arlington, Virginia.

The 9-round Swiss event with one Open section attracted 83 participants.

The 5th tournament of the FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix 2013-2014 is taking place from 18th June to 2nd July in Lopota, Georgia.

Twelve players compete in the round robin tournament. The event is organized by the Georgian Ministry of Sport and Youth, FIDE and Georgian Chess Federation, and sponsored by SOCAR.