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The 6th Annual Continental Class Championships will be held from June 16-18, 2017, at the Westin Tysons Corner, 7801 Leesburg Pike (VA-7), Falls Church, Virginia.

The event will have six sections: Master (2200 and up), Class A (1800-1999/Unr), Class B (1600-1799/Unr), Class C (1400-1599/Unr), Class D (1200-1399/Unr) and Class E (Under 1200/Unr).

All sections will be completed over 5 rounds of Swiss system with the time control 40/100, SD/30 d10 (2-day option, rds 1-2 G/60, d10).

The European Amateur Chess Championship 2017 is currently ongoing under the splendid conditions in the Constantinus Hall of Tami Residence in Niš, Serbia.

The Championship is perfectly organized by the Chess Federation of City of Nis under the auspices of the European Chess Union.

The opening ceremony was attended by the Mayor of Nis Darko Bulatovic, Nis City Councillor for Sports Branislav Kacar, and City’s first Grandmaster Slavoljub Marjanovic.

Grandmaster Maxim Matlakov from Russia (2714) emerged winner of the 18th European Individual Chess Championship 2017 with 8,5/11 points.

The Russian scored the same points as Baadur Jobava (GEO, 2713) and Vladimir Fedoseev (RUS, 2690), but thanks to better tie-breaks he became the new European Chess Champion, while the other two won silver and bronze respectively.

The 2017 Mediterranean Youth Chess Championships are set to take place from 21-27th October in Chania, Crete, Greece.

1. Invitation

The 21st Voronezh Chess Masters, dedicated to the memory of Alekhine, is going to take place 12-20 June, 2017. It consists of 136 players, 32 of which Grandmasters. Top seeded are GM Boris Grachev, GM Dmitry Kokarev, GM Boris Savchenko, GM Ivan Popov, GM Sergey Volkov, etc.

A parallel Open section consists of 118 players.

The American Continental Championship 2017 is taking place June 10-18, 2017 in Medellin, Colombia. It is the second continental championship for the month which starts right when the European Chess Championship 2017 crowned its new king and selected the qualifiers for the World Chess Cup 2018. The first four players from the American Continental Championship 2017 will also qualify for the FIDE World Cup.

The 48th final tournament of the traditional all-Russian scholastic chess team event Belaya Ladya (also known as White Rook) finished in Dagomys, Sochi.

Chess Federation of the City of Nis under the auspices of the European Chess Union organizes the European Amateur Chess Championship 2017, which will take place in Nis, Serbia, from June 9 (day of arrival) to June 17 (day of departure) 2017.

The tournament will be held in the “Tami Residence” hotel in Congress Hall (Durmitorska street, Nis, Serbia), which will be the official accommodating hotel.

The last round of the European Individual Chess Championship 2017 in Minsk will decide the Champion, as Maxim Matlakov and Baadur Jobava took over the lead, both with 8 points.

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Chinese Chess Players Head Starting Lists of the FIDE World Team Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk

The FIDE World Team Championships will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk from June 16 (arrival) till June 27 (departure).