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The European Youth Team Chess Championship 2017 will be held from 16th to 24th August in Rymanów Zdrój, Poland, at the PST “Stomil” Rymanów Zdrój, which is the official venue of the tournament.

The organizers of the Championships are PST “Stomil” Rymanów Zdrój and Polish Chess Federation, under the auspices of the European Chess Union.

The Estonian Sports Association Kalev organized the 26th Paul Keres Memorial – Dedicated to Paul Keres 101 from 14-15th January at the Original Sokos Hotel Viru in Tallinn, Estonia.

The 11-round Swiss event with 102 participants was played with the rapid time control 15′+5”.

Top seeded Grandmaster Farrukh Amonatov from Tajikistan emerged clear winner of the 15th Delhi International Open after completing the event with 8,5/10 points.

Local GM Ghosh Diptayan and GM Marat Dzhumaev from Uzbekistan shared the second place with 8 points each.

The 15th Delhi International Open was organized by Delhi Chess Association and took place from 9-16th January at the Ludlow Castle Sports Complex Civil Lines in New Delhi, India.

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.