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The Ukrainian Men’s Chess Championship 2016 is taking place from December 6-17, in Rivne. The event is a round-robin tournament in 11 rounds. The tempo of play is 90′/40 + 30′ + 30″.

Participants: GM Anton Korobov (2692), GM Alexander Areshchenko (2678), GM Alexander Moiseenko (2657), GM Yuriy Kuzubov (2651), GM Zahar Efimenko (2651), GM Andrei Volokitin (2649), GM Martyn Kravtsiv (2645), GM Mikhailo Oleksienko (2615), GM Alexander Kovchan (2585), IM Evgeny Shtembuliak (2478), Vladislav Bakhmatsky (2446), Alexey Solovchuk (2409),

The 2017 World Amateur Chess Championships for men and women with a FIDE rating under 2300 will be held from 1-9th April in the Rocca Albornoziana in Spoleto, Italy.

There will be separate championships for categories Under-2300, Under-2000 and Under-1700. In each rating section, a separate championship for women shall be organized only if there are at least 10 women entries from at least 2 continents. Otherwise the women’s event will be merged with men (open).

The Tunisian Secretary of State for Sport welcomed African Chess Confederation President Lewis Ncube who is on a working visit to the country on the occasion of the conclusion of the African Junior Championship that took place from November 25 to December 4, 2016 in Hammamet.

The meeting was attended by the Director General for Sports, Tunisian Chess Federation officials and a number of University officers dedicated to the development of the sport of chess in Tunisia.

World Championship challenger Sergey Karjakin took a ceremonial kick-off in the football match of his favourite Spartak Moscow and Rubin Kazan on the Otkrytie Arena.

Rubin was in the lead but Spartak turned the score and won by 2-1.

Stockfish, the open source chess engine by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, and Gary Linscott, is the winner of the 2016 edition of the

The Rome City Chess Open 2016 is taking place from 4-10 December in Rome, Italy. Live games with analysis will be daily on Chessdom.com with the top three TCEC engines Stockfish, Komodo and Houdini

You can now get Houdini 5 PRO bundled with analysis toolshere at the Chessdom shop

Chess Assistant 2017 PRO is now available in the Chessdom shop.

Houdini Aquarium PRO 2017 is now available in the Chessdom shop with Houdini 5 PRO inside – the engine has improved greatly since the previous version and is now stronger than ever, 200 ELO points over Houdini 4 PRO, now supporting up to 128 core

In the conference hall of the Grand Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Sochi, the opening ceremony of the World Schools Chess Championship took place on 2nd December. 499 players from 30 countries arrived to take part in the competition. The tournament is hosted in Russia for the first time ever.

Chess grandmaster Timur Gareyev, also known as the Blindfold King will set a new world record for Blindfold Chess in Las Vegas.

OFF da ROOK Entertainment along with the Las Vegas Chess Center will present a special Blindfold Chess event with the Blindfold King.