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The 21st Space Coast Open Chess Festival will take place on 25-27th April at the International Palms Resort, 1300 North Atlantic Avenue (Hwy A1A), Cocoa Beach, Florida.

The event will be held over 5 rounds of Swiss system and in six sections: Master/Expert (FIDE rated), Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D and U1200.

Hou Yifan express keeps a steady pace forward in Khanty-Mansiysk FIDE Grand Prix after today’s win against Anna Ushenina, to the despair of second place, requested by Anna Muzychuk, who also won her game against Zhao Xue.

Just like in yesterday’s standings, third comes the local hero, Olga Girya, with a remarkable 4.5/7, after winning a beautiful game against her compatriot and former women world champion, Alexandra Kosteniuk.

The Russian Junior U20 chess championships are taking place in Loo, Russia from 16th to 24th April, 2014. Live games with triple engine analysis daily at 13:00 CET.

Bulgarian Grandmaster Kiril Georgiev recently won the incredibly strong Karpos Open Tournament in Skopje. WGM Iva Videnova interviewed the winner for Chessdom.

Chessdom: Kiril, congratulations for winning Karpos Open, one of the strongest open tournaments in Europe. Would you share your impressions?

The fourth edition of Karpos Open took place in Skopje from 29 March-5 April 2014, at Hotel Aleksandar Palace.

The event was a 9 rounds open tournament with a prize fund of 25,000 EUR and a total of 262 players from 38 different countries, 17 of which over 2600 ELO.

The Bulgarian Grandmaster Kiril Georgiev had an amazing finish, winning his last four games in a row, thus taking clear first place with 7.5/9.

WIM Marija Rakic

Ten participants are competing in the Chess Ladies Vienna round-robin tournament, in Vienna, Austria from 12^th to 20^th April, 2014.

French Grandmaster Romain Edouard convincingly won the 2014 Dubai Open after turning the tables against the top seed GM Anton Korobov in the last round.

Croatian Grandmaster Davorin Kuljasevic is the winner of the 1^st International Open Tournament “Castelfranco Veneto”.

The event took place in the walled city with medieval castle Castelfranco Veneto, Italy, on 10 – 13 April, 2014.

The Russian Team Chess Championships for Men and Women took place in Loo, Russia from 7th to 13th April, 2014. The top seeded team of Malakhit took the gold medal with 12 points, leaving ShSM Moscow one point behind.