Σκακιστικά νέα

FM Nicolas Lopez Azambuja convincingly won the Uruguayan chess championship 2014 that was held from 2nd to 11th April at the House of Sports Artigas in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.

German national captain GM Dorian Rogozenco has nominated the teams for the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway.

Schachfestival Dresden e.V., German Chess Federation and sponsor UKA have announced the German Women Masters tournament which will be held from 16-25th November at the Hotel Wyndham Garden in Dresden.

The tournament format will be 10-player round robin with the prize fund of 10,000 EUR.

The city of Nalchik hosted the North Caucasus Federal District Championships for men and women.

The men’s event was 9-round Swiss with 38 participants, while the women’s event was 10-player round robin.

Grandmaster Artur Gabrielyan from Georgievsk (Stavropol Krai) emerged champion for men, while the second place went to Oleg Nechaev (Stavropol Krai) and third to Tigran Nazaretyan (North Ossetia-Alania).

Heart of America Spring Class Championships are set to take place on April 19-20, 2014, at the Ramada Inn, 1601 N Universal Ave., Kansas City MO 64120.

Sergei Tiviakov and Aravindh Chithambaram drew their game after three hours of play, a result that confirmed that Tiviakov would successfully defend his title and in doing so become a three time winner of the KL International Open.

The 3rd Iraq International Chess Championship was held on 23-29th March at the Al Mansoor Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq. 66 participants from 16 nations, of which 28 title holders, competed.

Open letter
To:
The ECU board members,
The National Chess Federations of European Continent
The ECU Secretariat
The FIDE Secretariat

Dear Friends,
We would like to draw your attention to some important issues:

The 8th Annual Philadelphia Open will be held over the Easter week from April 16-20, 2014, at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The event has 7 sections: Open, Under 2200, Under 2000, Under 1800, Under 1600, Under 1300 and Under 1000/Unrated.

The second Stage of TCEC Season 6 is completed. According to the rules of the strongest computer tournament 8 engines move on to the next Stage.