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Day one of the first classical event of the Grand Chess Tour was full of fighting chess and decisive results. Even with slower time controls, it is clear that the players came to play.

Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Sergey Karjakin started the tournament off well as they defeated their opponents in a fine manner.

Levon Aronian, who has already won two top level events this year, was particularly impressive as he completely annihilated Ian Nepomniachtchi right out of the opening.

The Russian Individual and Team Rapid & Blitz Championships among men and women will take place from September 29 (arrival) to October 6 (departure) 2017 in Grand Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Sochi.

Individual Championships will be held from September 29 (arrival) till October 3 (departure). The tournaments will be played according to the Swiss system: 11 rounds of rapid and 10 double rounds of blitz.

Replay the games and video of Sinquefield Cup 2017 round 1

Follow also on your mobile phone (Android) in the ChessArena android application for mobile phones.

Bulgarian Ministry of Youth & Sport has given 7 days (from 1st August) to the Bulgarian Chess Federation to reimburse the unlawfully and inappropriately spent funds in the amount of BGN 2.097.461 (approx 1 million EUR) to the bank account of the Ministry.<

The 3rd edition of the annual Global Chess Festival (GCF) will be held on Saturday October 14th, 2017. This year the festival in Budapest will take place in the beautiful new location Graphisoft Park, the ‘Silicon Valley’ of Hungary. As in previous years, various activities will be organized, all with chess as the main theme.

Sinquefield Cup 2017 will take place in the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis from August 2th to 11th 2017. It will be live daily on Chessdom with video commentary and live games analysis

Round 1 pairings:

Aronian – Nepomniachtchi
Caruana – Carlsen
Karjakin – Svidler
Anand – Nakamura
Vachier-Lagrave – Wesley So

On July 27, at 15.00, a press conference on Chess World Cup was held at the “Amphitheater” foyer of “The Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi”.

A venture crowned with success was the initiative of The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, to organise the Match of the Millenials: USA vs. the World, in cooperation with FIDE, the U.S. Chess Federation, the Kasparov Chess Foundation and FIDE Trainer’s Commission.

The legendary Vassily Ivanchuk will meet the young star Wei Yi in Hoogeveen in a match that will take place 21-26 October, 2017. The Ukrainian Vasily Ivanchuk has been a world leader for thirty years and still regularly raises the crowd with his peculiar behavior and brilliant findings on the board.

The International Chess Women’s Open is taking place from 31 July to 4 August 2017 in Erfurt, Germany. Top players are IM Vijayalakshmi, WGM Majdan, WGM Hejazipour, WGM Doluhanova, WGM Rapport, WGM Berzina, WIM Khomeriki, WGM Strutinskaia, WIM Fuchs, WIM Olsarova, WIM Havlikova, etc.

Follow the event on Chessdom and on the ChessArena android application for mobile phones.