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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.

The decisive game rate remains very high in the sixth round of the Lopota Grand Prix tournament – only one game ended in a draw.

GM Karen Grigoryan

The 7th Annual Karen Asrian Memorial took place from 16th to 25th June, 2014, in the prominent SPA resort of Jermuk, Armenia.

The 42nd Annual World Chess Open will be held from June 30-July 6, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia.

The event has 10 sections: Open, Under 2400/Unrated, Under 2200, Under 2000, Under 1800, Under 1600, Under 1400, Under 1200, Under 900/Unrated and Unrated/Provisional.

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

The event has one Open section, which will be 9 rounds. FIDE norms are possible. The guaranteed prize fund is $10,000.

Prizes: $3000-1500-1000-700-600-500-400-300-200, top FIDE under 2300 or unrated $1200-600.

Minimum prize $800 to foreign Grandmasters, $400 to foreign IMs or WGMs, $200 to foreign FMs who complete all games with no byes.

The Visma Chess Tournament 2014 is held from 25th to 29th June, 2014 at Vaxjo Konserthus in the city of Vaxjo, Sweden.

The format of the event is 10-player round robin with three groups – one GM-group and two IM-groups with a time control 90′ + 30″.

Top seed in the GM-group is GM Tiger Hillarp Person.

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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.

The 5th Hainan Danzhou GM Chess Tournament is taking place from 25th June to 4th July 2014 in Danzhou, a city in the northwest of the Chinese island province of Hainan.

The tournament format is a 10 player round-robin with a time control 90′/ 40 moves plus 30′ for the rest of the game plus 30″ increment starting from move one and total prize fund in the amount of 320.000 CNY.

After winning the FIDE Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships to claim three titles in three formats, World Champion Magnus Carlsen continued to Armenia for a three-day visit where his host was World N2 Levon Aronian.

Honolulu, Hawaii – Slated for March 14th-22nd, 2015, the inaugural “Hawaii Chess Festival” is being put on to attract chess players from all over the world to the island of Oahu.

Centered at the Hilton Waikiki Beach (but moving around to different venues), this inaugural Festival will consist of a series of chess events for players of all ages and abilities.

The Asian Chess Clubs Champions League is organized by the Al Ain Chess Club under the auspices of the UAE Chess Federation from 20th to 28th June, 2014 in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.