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182 chess players from 14 countries take part in the 40th edition of Ikaros International Chess Tournament. The Open Aegean Championship “Ikaros” 2017, which is the main event, is held from 9 to 16 July at the Sport Center of Aghios Kirykos at the island of Ikaria.

Almost all of the geographical areas of Greece and Cyprus, as well as 12 foreign countries are represented: Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Spain, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Czech Republic.

From 4 to 6 July 2017 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in New Delhi, India, by the Delhi Chess Association, in cooperation with the All India Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The venue of the Seminar was the Park Plaza Hotel in New Delhi.

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

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 10 to 13 August 2017 in Panama City, Panama, by the Panama Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The Lecturer will be IA Barbara Lopez Chavez (CUB), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer will be FA Roquelina Fandino Reyes (CUB).

The Faraoes Chess Open 2017 will be daily live on Chessdom and on your mobile phones via the ChessArena android application for android. Top seeded players are GM Julio Granda Zuniga, GM Helgi Dam Ziska, GM Allan Stig Rasmussen, IM Srinath Narayanan, GM Miguel Munoz, etc.

The Leiden Chess Tournament 2017 is going to take place 14-23 July. It is a Swiss tournament with 92 players in group A. Top seeded are GM David Howell, GM Chanda Sandipan, GM Vyacheslav Ikonnikov, GM Sundar Shyam, GM Friso Nijboer, GM Roeland Pruijssers, GM Alexei Gavrilov, etc.

Leiden 2017 will be live daily on Chessdom.com and also on the ChessArena android application for mobile phones

During the free day of Geneva Grand Prix a group of players and officials visited the United Nations Office in the Palais des Nations.

Ernesto Inarkiev played a simul against the members of the UN Chess Club. He won all the games, but admitted it was tougher than he expected. Inarkiev added that he was proud to represent chess grandmasters and the Republic of Ingushetia in United Nations.

After two days of rapid in Leuven I was in a good mood, coming off two wins in a row. The third day however, turned out to be a difficult one.

First I had the black pieces against the notoriously solid Anish Giri, and I played the King’s Indian in search of a complicated struggle. I did not really get what I aimed for though, but after he missed the right moment to sac a pawn for a dangerous attack, which we both had seen and underestimated, mass exchanges and a draw quickly followed.

Indian Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna defeated the top seed Levon Aronian in the sixth round of Geneva Grand Prix to join Alexander Grischuk and Teimour Radjabov, who drew each other, on the top of the crosstable with 4 points.

As Aronian weakened the king with careless 20.f4 and then 21.b5, Harikrishna pounced on the opportunity, and after the tactical transfer of the knight to g4-square he obtained a strong attack.

Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta came up with an inspired performance in the final round to defeat Aleksander Wohl of Australia and annexed the gold medal in the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017.

The 2nd ECU Congress and the Annual ECU General Assembly will be held in Creta Maris Beach Resort, Creta, Greece from 1st-5th November 2017, concurrently with the European Team Championships.

The official venue will be Creta Maris Convention Centre.