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The 2014 Commonwealth Chess Championships are being held at Glasgow City College, in Glasgow, Scotland, from 30 June to 8 July 2014.

Last-year’s winner GM Abhijeet Gupta is top seeded.

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The 4th Lev Polugaevsky Memorial is taking place on 2–10th July at the Polugaevsky Chess Club in Samara. The tournament is the 5th stage of this year’s Cup of Russia.

A big field of 139 participants testifies of the popularity of chess in this region. 17 Grandmasters and 12 International Masters honor the memory of the legendary Soviet player.

The 2nd D.C. International was held from June 26-30, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Arlington, Virginia.

The 9-round Swiss event with one Open section attracted 83 participants.

The 5th tournament of the FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix 2013-2014 is taking place from 18th June to 2nd July in Lopota, Georgia.

Twelve players compete in the round robin tournament. The event is organized by the Georgian Ministry of Sport and Youth, FIDE and Georgian Chess Federation, and sponsored by SOCAR.

The 2014 SPICE Cup Open is scheduled to take place from 21st to 26th October at the Crowne Plaza Clayton Hotel in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

The 9-round Swiss open is sponsored by Webster University and the Susan Polgar Foundation.

The event offers the prize fund of $13,000 guaranteed (up from $11,000 last year) and the possibility to earn FIDE title norms.

GM Kayden Troff, the 16-year-old phenom out of Utah, has won the 2014 U.S. Junior Closed Championship in clear first with an impressive 7/9 score, grabbing the national championship for players under 21 by finishing 1.5 points ahead of the field.

For his efforts, Troff has won the top prize of $3,000, as well as an invitation to the 2015 U.S. Championship.

Article by Brian Jerauld

A FIDE Seminar for International Organizers will be held on 25-27th July at the University of Santo Tomas, Arturo Prat 879 Street, in Concepción, Chile.

The FIDE Arbiters’ Commission has the pleasure to announce the 2014 Arbiters’ Award.

The requirements for the Arbiters to be awarded were:

The 48th edition of the Ilmar Raud Memorial is taking place from 30th June to 6th July 2014 at the Viljandi Sports Center in Viljandi, a town in southern Estonia.

59 players from 6 different countries will be vying for the first prize of 1.500 € in a 9 round Swiss.

Top seed is Estonian champion GM Kaido Kulaots.

The Dutch Individual Chess Championship for women is taking place from 6th to 13th July 2014 at the Manor Hotel in Amsterdam, the capital and most populous city in the Netherlands.

GM Peng, Zhaoqin, WGM Muhren, Bianca, WIM Haast, Anne, IM Lanchava, Tea, WGM Paulet, Iozefina, WIM Padurariu, Smaranda, Hortensius, Lisa and WFM Kazarian, Anna-Maja 2025 will be vying in a 7 round round-robin tournament.