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The Vladimir Dvorkovich Memorial Cup is a 9-round open tournament taking place from 15-23 January 2018 in Taganrog, Russia. There are 73 participants. The tope players are GM Sergey Volkov, GM Dmitry Kokarev, Dmitry Bocharov, Dmitry Kryakvin etc…

The 16th International Chess Festival Aeroflot Chess Open 2018 will be held in Moscow from February 19 to March 2, 2018.

The Portuguese Chess Federation will hold the Portugal Open February 3-9, 2018, at the Gym of Sports Complex of Casal Vistoso (Lisbon). The tournament is 9-round Swiss system. More then 250 participants are expected. The top players are GM Anton Demchenko, GM Tigran Gharamian, GM Aleksandar Indjic, and GM Samuel Sevian.

XIV International RSSU Chess Cup «Мoscow Open-2018»

16th Annual Gonzaga Charity Classic will be held from 26 to 28 January. Venue will be Gonzaga College SJ. The tournament is divided in 3 sections
Masters: 1800+ (5 Rounds FIDE rated), Championship: 1100 – 1900 (6 rounds), Challengers: Below 1200 (6 rounds).

Caleta Hotel hosts the 16th edition of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival!

Top seed Grandmaster Gareyev Timur of USA shared the lead with 4/4 score after the fourth round of the 10th Chennai Open International Grandmaster Chess tournament 2018 for Sakthi Group Dr N Mahalingam Trophy at The Vijay Park Hotel, Chennai here today.

Gareyev, a Guinness record holder in simultaneous blindfold chess, has been playing his fourth-tournament-in-a-row in Indian circuit viz., Bhopal, Mumbai, Delhi and now Chennai Open GM tournament.

For the past several days there is increased interest in chess politics, with one of the most visited articles on Chessdom being the Russian Chess Federation election details. Our email is now full of comments by chess fans, politicians and analysts about the elections and mainly focusing on the participation of Kirsan Ilymzhinov. Practically all points to the interesting fact that the FIDE Executive board voted against the participation in FIDE elections of Mr.