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Alekhine Chess Club, Kolkata, India organises the 19th edition of the prestigious International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament, carrying a prize money of Rs.14,00,000/- (approximately 22500 USD) from 18th to 27th March 2014.

First prize of the tournament will be Rs.400,000 and only players with a rating of 2200 and above may be allowed to participate. Last date for entry is 10th March without late fee and 16th March with late fee.

Tbilisi Chess Academy organized a 10-player round robin tournament from 6th to 11th February.

Georgian IM Davit Maghalashvili convincingly won the competition with 6,5/9 points, leaving the nearest followers point and a half behind. He also succeeded in earning a Grandmaster norm.

Final standings:

Houdini 4 continues rolling through Stage 1a of the strongest computer chess championship TCEC.

Azerbaijan will hold two round robin tournaments in memory of Vugar Gashimov from 19 to 30 April in Shamkir, Teymur Tushiev of ExtraTime.az confirmed for Chessdom.

Oslo Metropolitan Area (OMA) is preparing to participate in MIPIM real estate exhibition on 11-14 March at Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France.

Law firm “Simonsen Vogt Wiig”, one of Magnus Carlsen’s personal sponsors, is member of OMA. For this reason Carlsen will come to the Oslo stand of the congress.

The selection of “The Study of the Year” is organized by the World Federation for Chess Composition and aimed at introducing a single friendly endgame study to the general public.

The study should appeal to chess players of various levels and encourage them to pay more attention to endgame studies.

Composers were invited to submit a single study (either their own or by others) that was published (either in a magazine or in an award) during the year 2012.

The English Chess Federation Chief Executive Phil Ehr called an urgent, additional Board meeting on Saturday 8th February 2014 with the following agenda:

GM Petar Drenchev leads the Bulgarian National Championship Semifinal. After four rounds GM Drenchev is with 3,5/4, after defeating IM Pavel Dimitrov, Daniil Danov, and Kiril Terzijski, and drawing with IM Marholev.

Botswana is located in Southern Africa and if one can imagine a map of African Continent like chess board it’s easy to find Botswana on the second rank near to South Africa.

The population of the country is about 2 millions but the territory is so huge that the density is 3.4 people/km2 (in comparison density in India is 376 people/km2), which makes Botswana one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world.