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The 2016 African Individual Chess Championships were held from 17-26th of July with the Classical, Rapid and Blitz formats. The venue was the TICK hotel in Kampala, Uganda.

In the classical event there were a total of 30 players from Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Somalia, Uganda and Zambia. The field consisted of 3 GM’s, 9 IM’s, 6 FM’s and 3 CM’s bring the total title count to 21.

2016 Sinquefield Cup Spotlights International Chess Competition in Saint Louis. Top World Talents Face-off at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis Aug. 5-16

The 2016 Susan Polgar Foundation Girls’ Invitational was held from 23-28th July at the SPICE Building at Luhr Library Building, Webster University in Saint Louis.

Over 600 photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/116302832360230031699/6311345900046843313

A wonderful tournament on the Italian Adriatic coast will take place from 30th July to 6th August.

The Summer Chess Festival ‘Mare di Fano’ will run for the fifth time, bringing together amateur and professional players.

In the middle of the summer, chess aficionados will have an opportunity to enjoy sea, delicious Italian food and competitive chess in the company of at least 10 invited GMs and IMs, hence a possibility to achieve norms.

The European Chess Union has issued agenda and annexes for the ECU General Assembly 2016 which will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan on Saturday 10th of September 2016.

Schachgesellschaft Riehen from Switzerland is the first club to have completed the registration for the 2016 European Chess Club Cup.

Schachgesellschaft Riehen lineup:
GM Heimann Andreas
GM Cvitan Ognjen
IM Georgiadis loannis
IM Brunner Nicolas
IM Buss Ralph
Schmidt-Schaeffer Sebastian
Erismann Peter – captain

Following the police investigations in Bulgaria, Montenegro, Croat

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 3 to 9 October 2016 in Thessaloniki, Greece, by the Chess Club of “Galaxias” and the Chess Academy of Sykeon-Neapolis, in cooperation with the Greek Chess Federation and the Thessa

The Dutch Open Chess Championship 2016 is going to take place July 26 – August 4. The tournament is divided in various groups. The Dutch Open top group is headed by GM Erwin L’Ami, GM Dmitri Reinderman, GM Chanda Sandipan, GM Igor Khenkin, GM Vyacheslav Ikonnikov, GM Csaba Horvath, GM Daniel Hausrath, GM Roeland Pruijssers, GM Debashis Das, GM Leonid Milov, IM Shagar Shah, etc.