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The line-up in the 2014 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, starting on January 27 is truly fabulous with over 60 GM’s, nine of which are 2700+ and a further sixteen are rated over 2600. It will be the strongest festival of the year so far, with massive participation in the Masters, Amateurs, and Challengers groups. A total of 60 different federations are participating across all five events!

Goran Urosevic: Hello Morten Sand, I wanted to ask several questions about the contract between Kasparov and Leong. Who asked you in first place to draft this contract?

The line-up in the 2014 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, starting on January 27 is truly fabulous with over 60 GM’s, nine of which are 2700+ and a further sixteen are rated over 2600. It will be the strongest festival of the year so far, with massive participation in the Masters, Amateurs, and Challengers groups. A total of 60 different federations are participating across all five events!

FIDE, the International School Chess Union (I.S.C.U.) and the Olympic Sports Academy of Thessaloniki have the honour of inviting all FIDE National Chess Federations and eligible players in the World Schools Rapid-Blitz Chess Championships organised in Kavala, Greece from 13 June (arrivals) to 17 June (departures).

Each National Federation or School Association or schools may enter an unlimited number of players in each of the 12 age groups. In case that one group is less than 10 participants, then it will be merged with the next age group category.

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The 5th Annual Golden State Open was held over the Martin Luther King weekend from January 17-20, 2013, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 45 John Glenn Dr., Concord, California.

The event had 6 sections: Open, Under 2200, Under 1900, Under 1600, Under 1300 and Under 1000. The tournament format was 7-round Swiss, 40/110, SD/30, d10.

This year, as well as last year, we are focusing on the young people before and during the tournament. We have now started with chess lessons for young pupils in our region.

Chessity.com, the online community of chess training, has announced that they will cover game analysis of Tatasteel Chess Tournament 2014. Renowned grand master Erwin I’ami will analyze the best game of that day daily during the event. http://chessity.com/blog The 76th edition of this tournament began on January 10 and it will end on January 26, 2014.

FIDE Announcement / 23-1-2014

After the article of the New York Times, concerning ethical questions regarding the contract between Gary Kasparov and Ignatius Leong, it came to our attention a statement by Morten Sand, the lawyer assisting Garry Kasparov's campaign, that a leaked contract between Gary Kasparov and Ignatius Leong was possible "through the administrator of the mail account in FIDE".