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FIDE announces the first round pairings for the forthcoming Women’s World Championship to be held in Tehran, Iran.

A blitz tournament commemorating the late Ivan Bukavshin (1995-2016) was organized on 12th January in SDYuSShOR #4 in Togliatti, Russia.

More than 60 chess players, including students and coaches of the Russian Grandmaster Center, gathered to pay their tribute to the talented sportsman.

Tata Steel Chess 2017, the first super tournament of the year, is going to take place 14-31 January in Wijk Aan Zee, Netherlands.

Yet another year of chess show is ahead in Wijk Aan Zee with the participation of Magnus Carlsen, Sergey Karjakin, Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Pentala Harikrishna, Pavel Eljanov, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Dmitri Andreikin, Wei Yi, Richard Rapport, Loek Van Wely, and Baskaran Adhiban.

The 16th Prague Open Chess Tournament is taking place from January 13-20, 2017, at the luxurious Olympik Hotel****, in Prague, Czech Republic.

The event is a 9-round Swiss open tournament with time control 90′/40 + 30′ + 30″.

Top seed players are: GM Marcin Tazbir (POL) 2524, GM Tanguy Ringoir (BEL) 2496 and GM Konstantin Chernyshov (RUS) 2492.

Official website

The 16th Marienbad Open 2017 is taking place from January 21-28, in Marianske Lazne, a spa town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.

Official website/ Marienbad Open 2016

Stavanger cannot hold the 2018 FIDE World Championship Match because AGON insists that only capital cities are appropriate for such event, Chairman of “Norway Chess” Kjell Madland stated for aftenbladet.no.

However, AGON has proposed and “Norway Chess” is seriously considering the possibility of holding the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships in Stavanger, either in 2017 or 2018.

FIDE is publishing the list of participants of the World Women’s Championship 2017 in Tehran. Participants who need an entry visa to Iran shall contact the local Organising Committee at the email ircfchess@gmail.com to receive the necessary travel information and invitation letter.

The International Bled Chess Festival 2017 is scheduled to take place from March 10-12, 2017, in the great hall of the luxurious Grand Hotel Toplice*****, situated in the Slovenian tourist town of Bled.

Iasi County Chess Association, Romanian Chess Federation, the City Hall of Iasi, and FIDE have the honor to invite all the FIDE Members Chess Federations and eligible players to take part in the FIDE World School Chess Championship 2017 (open and girls, under 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 17 years old) organized in Iasi, Romania, from 21th April (arrival) to 1st May (departure) 2017.

The Uzbekistan Chess Federation (UCF), under the auspices of the Asian Chess Federation (ACF) has the honour to invite all Asian national chess federations to participate in the 2017 Asian Youth Chess Championship and Asian Youth Rapid and Blitz Championships, which will be held in Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan, from 31st March (arrival) till 10th April (departure) 2017.