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The Andorra Open is taking place from 22–30 July 2023 in Andorra. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Johan-Sebastian Christiansen, Platon Galperin, Allan Stig Rasmussen, Jaime Alexander Cuartas, Andrey Sumets, Omar Almeida Quintana, etc.

The Andorra Open is taking place from 22–30 July 2023 in Andorra. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Johan-Sebastian Christiansen, Platon Galperin, Allan Stig Rasmussen, Jaime Alexander Cuartas, Andrey Sumets, Omar Almeida Quintana, etc.
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Ju Wenjun (32) claimed her fourth Women’s World Champion title after clinching a crucial victory in the decisive, final, 12th game of the match against challenger Lei Tingjie.
With this victory, Ju has now equalled the record set by her compatriot Hou Yifan, both having won the world crown four times. Apart from defending the title, Ju also won €300,000 in prize money, while €200,000 went to the runner-up Lei Tingjie.

How the final game unfolded:

The British Championship is taking place from 22–30 July 2023 in Leicester, England. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Michael Adams, Nicholas Pert, Daniel Howard Fernandez, Eldar Gasanov, Harry Grieve, Matthew J Wadsworth, Jonah B Willow, Mark L Hebden, Richard G Pert, Yichen Han, etc.

The British Championship is taking place from 22–30 July 2023 in Leicester, England. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Michael Adams, Nicholas Pert, Daniel Howard Fernandez, Eldar Gasanov, Harry Grieve, Matthew J Wadsworth, Jonah B Willow, Mark L Hebden, Richard G Pert, Yichen Han, etc.

The Austrian Championship is taking place from 22–30 July 2023 in Vienna, Austria. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one.  It is a 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Stefan Kindermann, Georg Kilgus, Valentin Baidetskyi, Nikolaus Stanec, Konstantin Peyrer, Siegfried Baumegger, Ilia Balinov, Gerald Hertneck, Christoph Menezes, etc.

The Austrian Championship is taking place from 22–30 July 2023 in Vienna, Austria. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one.  It is a 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Stefan Kindermann, Georg Kilgus, Valentin Baidetskyi, Nikolaus Stanec, Konstantin Peyrer, Siegfried Baumegger, Ilia Balinov, Gerald Hertneck, Christoph Menezes, etc.

The 2023 FIDE Women’s World Championship is a 12-game match between defending champion Ju Wenjun and her Chinese compatriot Lei Tingjie. The match runs July 5-23, with the first 6 games in Ju Wenjun’s home city of Shanghai and the rest of the match in Lei Tingjie’s Chongqing. The first player to 6.5 points wins the match, while a 6:6 tie will be settled by tiebreaks. The prize fund is €500,000, split 60:40 in favour of the winner, or 55:45 if tiebreaks are needed.

The Uralsk Open is taking place from 21–28 July 2023 in Uralsk, Kazakhstan. Players receive 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Hans Moke Niemann, Mihail Nikitenko, Manuel Petrosyan, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Vladislav Kovalev, S.P. Sethuraman, etc.

The Uralsk Open is taking place from 21–28 July 2023 in Uralsk, Kazakhstan. Players receive 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Hans Moke Niemann, Mihail Nikitenko, Manuel Petrosyan, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Vladislav Kovalev, S.P. Sethuraman, etc.
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