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2nd Marcel Duchamp Cup will be held from 2 to 8 February in Montevideo, Uruguay. The venue is Sala Roja y Foyer del Centro de Conferencias de la IMM, Montevideo.
There are more then 150 participants. The top players are GM Sandro Mareco, GM Gilberto Hernandez, GM Ulf Andersson, GM Salvador Alonso etc…

The Armenian Chess Federation is organizing an international open chess tournament, dedicated to the memory of GM Karen Asrian, which will take place on June 20-30, 2018, in the prominent resort town of Jermuk.

All interested chess players can participate in the 9-round Swiss tournament. The total prize fund is increased and amounts to AMD equivalent of $ 27,000.

The Malopolska Chess Association, the Polish Chess Federation, the Community of Krakow, the European Chess Union (ECU), have honour to invite all the Chess Federations, and eligible players to take part in the European School Chess Championship 2018 organized in Krakow, Poland from 29th June to 8th July 2018.

The FIDE Arbiters’ Commission has the pleasure to announce the starting of the procedure for the 2018 Arbiters’ Awards.

The requirements for the Arbiters to be awarded are:

GM Levon Aronian is the winner in Gibraltar open 2018.

276 players took part in this tournament. It was traditionally the strongest open around with more then 100 GMs, including many of the top 10.

The 8th HDBANK Cup International Open Chess Tournament will be held from 9th to 16th March 2018 in HaNoi, VietNam. The venue will be Army Hotel. The tournament will be divided in 2 sections. Master Category: for players rated above 2100 and women rated above 2000.

From 26 to 28 January 2018 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Chennai, India, by the Tamil Nadu State Association, in cooperation with the All India Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The venue of the Seminar was the Royal Regency Hotel, in Chennai.

The Lecturer was IA Prof. R. Anatharam (IND), FIDE Arbiters’ Commission Councillor and FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer was IA Dharmendra Kumar (IND).

The lectures were in the English language.

From 19 to 21 January 2018 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Bangkok, Thailand by the Thailand Chess Association in cooperation with the Asian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The Lecturer of the seminar was IA Casto Abundo (PHI), FIDE Lecturer.

The venue of the Seminar was the Thailand Chess Association office. The lectures were in English language with Thai translation.

Nineteen (19) people from Thailand participated in the Seminar and all of them participated in the examination test, held after the end of the lectures.

Chess Open Graz 2018 starts on 17th of February and lasts until the 23rd. It takes place in Hotel Novapark.
The tournament is divided in 3 sections. A-tournament: open; B-tournament: