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The 3rd Annual George Washington Open was held from February 23-25, 2018, at the Westin Tysons Corner, 7801 Leesburg Pike (VA-7), Falls Church, Virginia.

The event featured five sections: Major, Under 2100, Under 1800, Under 1500 and Under 1200.

The Major section had 44 participants. Grandmaster Alexander Shabalov took a clear first place with 4,5/5 points to earn $1900 top prize.

The “Accentus Young Masters 2018” will take place in the historic building “Hotel Schloss” in Bad Ragaz from February 27th to March 8th. In this nine-round invitation tournament, four young Swiss players will meet six strong competitors from five nations.

ISF, the International School Sport Federation, has organized the Gymnasiade since 1974 and in 2016 added chess to the list of sports included.

Morocco organizes the 17th Gymnasiade, the first to take place on the African continent.

The chess discipline includes two tournaments, one for boys and one for girls. In each case players must have been born in the years 2000-2001-2002.

The CXC Brazil Open was a 6-round Swiss tournament which took place from 23-25 February 2018 in Curibita.
108 players took part in the tournament.

32nd International chess open Pierre & Vacances was held from 19 to 25 February in Cannes.
The open will was divided in 3 sections.
In the A tournament they were 82 players.
The winner is GM Rui Gao with 7 points out of 9 and better tie-break from the second GM Jinshi Bai.

The Paraguayan Women’s Championship was a 7-round Swiss tournament which took place from 23-26 February 2018 in Luque.
Two players were clearly above the others, WIM Jennifer Rodriguez Perez and WFM Gabriela Vargas. The made draw between each other and won all their games.

The Azerbaijan Women’s Championship was a 9-round Swiss open which took place in ACF in Baku from 18-26 February.
The leader after 8 rounds Balajayeva made draw with white against Narmin Soyunlu,while WGM Zeinab Mamedjarova,who needed a win lost against Gunay Mammadzada.

The 11th edition of the international tournament named after the 8th World Champion Mikhail Tal will be played in the Museum of Russian Impressionism (Moscow), one of the leading private museums in Russia.

The tournament is a part of the international programme implemented by Russian Chess Federation (RCF) together with the Charitable Foundation of Elena and Gennady Timchenko since 2012.

The 25th Annual Western Class Championships will be held from March 2-4, 2018, at the Airtel Plaza Hotel, 7277 Valjean Ave, Van Nuys, California.

The event has 7 sections: Master, Expert, Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D and Class E. All sections have either 3-day (March 2-4) or 2-day (March 3-4) schedules to play in.

The tournament format is 5-round Swiss with the time control 40/100, SD/30, d10.

The event has a guaranteed $20,000 prize fund. Entry fees range from $123-$140.

This new 48 page booklet is now freely available to download as a PDF from cis.fide.com.

Chess – A Tool for Education and Health Booklet (PDF)

In this new edition, we hope to disseminate throughout the worldwide chess community the benefits of education, health, as well as the use of chess in different social and therapeutic areas.