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Indian Chess School is organizing ICS International Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament at Thakur College of Science & Commerce, Thakur Village, Kandivali (East), Mumbai, India from 8-16 May, 2014 (both days inclusive).

The tournament is being organized under the aegis of the All India Chess Federation (AICF Event Code 94155/MAH/2014), Maharashtra Chess Association and Mumbai Suburban Chess Association.

From 25 to 27 April 2014 a Workshop for the training of the International Arbiters was organized in Brussels, Belgium, by the Antwerp Chess Clubs Union (Antwerps Schaak Collectief), in cooperation with the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and under the auspices of FIDE.

The venue of the Workshop was the conference hall of the Novotel Diegem Hotel, in Brussels, where all the participants were accommodated.

Greek Ministry of Education announced on 25th April that chess is included in compulsory program for the primary schools.

Stockfish (3157) leads TCEC Season 6 – Stage 4 with 4.5/7 points.

The 2014 Kazakhstan Chess Championships for men and women are taking place from 3rd to 12th May, 2014 in Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan.

The Men championship is a 12 player FIDE round robin with an average rating 2417 (seventh category). GM Murtas Kazhgaleyev is the first seed. The tournament is valid for achieving GM and IM norms.

The Heroes Day International Chess Festival took place from 26th April to 1st May, 2014, at the Chess Center, Cavans Lane, in Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados.

The International Chess Festival Nakhchivan Open 2014, dedicated to the memory of Heydar Aliyev, is taking place from 4th to 12th May, 2014 at the Nakhchivan Chess Center in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. More information here.

Grandmaster Timur Gareev won the main Open section of the 3rd Annual Larry Evans Memorial in Reno, Nevada.

The event, formerly known as Far West Open, was held on 18-20th April. A total of 200 players competed in five regular and two extra sections.