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FIDE is publishing the player’s contract for the Women’s World Chess Championship 2018 to be held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from November 1st to November 24.

The qualified players are expected to fax or email scanned the original document of their signed contract to the FIDE Secretariat’s fax number +30 2109212859 or email office@fide.com no later than midnight of Thursday, 16 August 2018.

The Cellavision Chess Cup is an 8-round Swiss tournament taking place from 3-5 August 2018 in Lund, Sweden.

The European Senior Chess Championship will be held in Drammen, Norway from August 3 (day of arrival) until August 13 (day of departure) 2018.

Тhe 9th Hainan Danzhou GrandMaster Chess Tournament in Hainan, China took place from July 26 to August 3 in Danzhou, a western city in China’s Hainan province. It was held at the China Chess Association Hainan Zhangzhou Training Base.

The 89th German Championship is a 9-round Swiss tournament taking place from 3-11 August 2018 in Dresden.

The Copel Telecom Open is a 9-round Swiss tournament taking place from 1-5 August 2018 in Caiobá, Brazil.

The 2nd Irena Warakomska Memorial is a 9-round Swiss open taking place in Velvet Hotel, Suwałki, Poland from 1-8 August 2018.

ECU Press Release 31.07.2018

A Brief history of the case:

The breaking news about the Neural Network Deus X, accompanied by a video interview on Chessdom went like a shock wave through the computer chess world. It created a lot of excitement, but also left the audience as well as the competitors in TCEC with questions unanswered. After a turbulent day of email exchanges, the authors of the two NNs cleared the situation. Here are the official statements by the two teams.