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Just as the Candidates tournament 2014 is entering in its decisive phase, multiple live events are starting all around the world. Chessdom will provide 24/7 coverage with analysis, here is a list of the most important events of the week.

Latvian Railway Open

The 3rd Balkan Rapid Chess Festival will take place on 12-13th April in Hotel Geranion, near Nikiti-Halkidiki, Greece.

The 10-round Swiss-system FIDE rated event with the time control 15 min + 3 sec is organized by the Municipality of Sithonia in cooperation with Thessaloniki & Halkidiki Chess Union.

The scoring system is 3 points for win, 1 point for draw, 0 points for loss. Draw offers are forbidden.

Viswanathan Anand took a practical decision to accept draw against Dmitry Andreikin in a better, but extremely complicated position. Considering the other results, Anand is coming closer to challenging World Champion Magnus Carlsen to another match.

Levon Aronian – Vladimir Kramnik and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov – Sergey Karjakin were drawn, while Veselin Topalov won a nice game against Peter Svidler.

The Greek Chess Championships 2014 is taking place from 29 March to 6th of April.

Live games daily on Chessdom with analysis by Komodo, Houdini, and Stockfish.

The Greek Women Chess Championships 2014 is taking place from 29 March to 6th of April.

Live games daily on Chessdom with analysis by Komodo, Houdini, and Stockfish.

Riga Chess federation has a pleasure to announce the Latvian Railway Open, one of the strongest rapid chess opens in the World.

The tournament will be held on 28-30 March, 2014, at the Latvian railway museum in Riga, Latvia. The tournament will be held in three groups A, B and C.

Top participants include Vassily Ivanchuk, Alexei Shirov, Vladimir Malakhov, Sergei Zhigalko, Viktor Bologan, Loek Van Wely, Igor Lysyj, Ogor Kovalenko, Daniel Fridman, David Navara, Sergei Azarov, etc.

Montenegro Directorate of Youth and Sport, a government body, inspected the documents and accounts of 13 sport federations and 7 clubs.

The inspection found that the Montenegro Chess Federation broke the law during the organization of 2013 European Youth Chess Championships in Budva, “Sahovska Hronika” quoted the Montenegrin News Agency MINA.

Chess Insider March, dedicated to the Candidates tournament, is a daily PDF and PGN magazine. So far 15 editions have been published, with a total of 250 pages of commentary.

All four games of the 11th round of the FIDE World Candidates Tournament ended in draws.

The first to split the point were former World Champions Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand. Peter Svidler and Levon Aronian, Dmitry Andreikin and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, followed the suit around the first time control.

Sergey Karjakin was pressing for a victory against Veselin Topalov, but the Bulgarian was alert to parry all the threats.

The 8th Serbian Chess Championship for women is taking place from 27th March to 6th April in Banja Junaković, Apatin.

Twelve players will compete in the round robin tournament. The defending champion is WGM Marija Manakova.