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The 53rd edition of the Capablanca Memorial is taking place from May 9-19 in the Habana Libre Hotel in Havana, Cuba.
Apart from the round-robin tournament there will be an Open tournament with 160 players, among them 25 GMs.

Metz open was held from 1 to 7 May.
60 players took part.
The winner is GM Sebastien Feller with 7 points out of 9.
Second is GM Sergey Fedorchuk with 6,5 and third is Andrei Shchekachev also with 6.5 points

The ongoing Glen Stark affair continues to have repercussions in Russia.

On Thursday, May 10, the Dutch Team Cup finals will take place in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

Format:
Four teams have qualified for the semi finals: LSG, Voerendaal, MuConsult Apeldoorn and Lonneker. The winners of the semi finals will play the finals. The losers of the semi finals will play for the 3rd-4th place.

The supervisory board of the Russian Chess Federation approved Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as candidate of the RCF for the upcoming FIDE elections on October 3rd in Batumi. The meeting took place in Grand Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Sochi. The RCF official website report states,

The Glen Stark affair, that went as a sonic boom through the chess world yesterday, provoked interesting reactions and revelations from all around the globe.

Related: FIDE elections, the story so far

In our 11 years of chess journalism in Chessdom, we have always aimed for full objectivity when covering FIDE elections or chess related politics. We thought nothing can surprise us anymore, yet it is the first time that we have to report on such a weird case.

The Open Internacional da Queima das Fitas 2018 was held from 27th April to 1st May at D.Luís Hotel in Coimbra, Portugal.

The event is included in “Circuito Nacional de Clássicas” of Portuguesse Chess Federation and was organized by Associação Académica de Coimbra (Chess Club) with the support of the Portuguese Chess Federation (FPX), Coimbra District Chess Association (AXDC), Queima das Fitas Organizing Committee and D. Luís Hotel.