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The International Chess Festival “Fajr Cup” will be held in Amol, Mazandaran, Iran
from February 3 till February 10 2018. The tournament will be held at the ballroom of “Oxin City Center”, Amol, Mazandaran, Iran.

Organizers are Mazandaran Chess Association under the auspices of Iranian Chess Federation (IRCF).

Team Korea

2018 Korea National Championship for Men was held in Seoul from 25.January to 1 February.
Four people have shared the first place with 5 points out of 7.The winner is FM Martin Walker.

Team Korea

Korea National Championship for Women was held in Seoul from 01/26 to 02/01.
It was 10 players round-robin. WFM Wang Chengjia is the winner with impressive result 9 out of 9.

full standings here.

7th National School Chess Championship were held from 28 January to 1 February in KIIT University, Patia.

The winners in all category groups follows.

GRENKE Chess Open will be held in Karlsruhe from March 29 to April 2. The venue will be Congress Centre Karlsruhe. The prize fund of the event 60.000 EUR.

Grenke Chess Open is divided in 3 sections.

The 1st Vajda Arpad Memorial is a 10-player round-robin tournament taking place from 29 January to 7 February 2018 in the Csili Cultural Center in Budapest, Hungary. The top players are GM Nikola Sedlak, GM Gergely Aczel, GM etc…

Moscow, 31st January, TASS. The Trustees Board of the Russian CF is supporting the candidacy of Andrey Filatov to the position of the Federation President, the Head of the Board, Press-secretary of the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov told to the TASS question.

Boris Savchenko is a constant participant and several-times winner of the previous editions of the Moscow Open. The grandmaster from Moscow told the correspondents of the tournament website of his recent success in the World Rapid Championship and the way this tournament started for him.