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The Las Vegas International Chess Festival – National Open Championship – was held on 12-15th June at the Riviera Casino & Hotel in Las Vegas, USA.

The Festival had eight sections: Championship, Under 2200, Under 2000, Under 1800, Under 1600, Under 1400, Under 1200 and Unrated.

The playing format was 6-rounds Swiss and the total prize fund was 80,000 USD.

The 9th Annual International Chess Tournament Open Teplice is in progress.

The 9-round Swiss event is taking place from 14th to 22nd June, 2014, at the Estrade Hall in Culture House of Teplice, Czech Republic.

The 111th edition of the traditional MGU Open took place on 14-15th June, 2014, at Chess Club MGU, in the Bulgarian capital and most populous city Sofia.

The event was a 6 round Swiss Open with a time control 50 minutes per player plus 10 seconds increment starting from move 1, organized in honor of Angel Tsenukov, born on 17th June, 75 years ago.

First place was shared in a four-way tie by NM Dobrotich Andreev, NM Yane Gelemerov, Andrey Mladenov and Nikolay Kostov on 4,5/6 points. However, National Master Dobrotich Andreev emerged a winner on his superior tie-break score.

The Montenegro Chess Federation has announced the lineups for the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway.

Dear Friends,

The Chess Federation of Canada has been following the FIDE Presidential campaign with continued interest. After lengthy consideration our Executive has opted to endorse Kirsan Ilyumzhinov for FIDE President.

Best regards,

Hal Bond
FIDE Delegate, Canada

Live video broadcast from the FIDE World Rapid 2014 Games start at 13:00 CET and will be live with analysis at Chessdom

FIDE World Rapid Championship 2014 LIVE

FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship 2014 LIVE

Opening ceremony report

The FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2014 have been officially opened in Dubai, UAE.

GM Alexander Nosenko (Ukraine) leads Alekhine Memorial (Master Open) Voronezh with perfect score 4/4 points.  Second place is shared in a 4-way tie by GM Vladislav Artemiev (Russia), GM Pavel Ponkratov (Russia), GM Dmitry Kokarev (Russia) and 

The 2nd International Golden Apricot Chess Tournament is taking place from 14th to 20rd June, 2014, at the Ataturk Sport Center in the city of Malatya, Turkey.

The event is organized by the Turkish Chess Federation, Malatya Metropolitan Municipality and Malatya GHSİM in a 9 round Swiss format with a time control 90 minutes per player plus 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.

The total prize fund is in the amount of 35 000 TL and the winner will be granted 4000 TL.