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The FIDE World Women Blitz Chess Championship will be held right after the rapid event won by Kateryna Lagno. The tournament is 30 rounds and it will be daily live with analysis on Chessdom.

WGM Irine Kharisma Sukandar of Indonesia and GM Yu Yangyi of China are the winners of the 13th Asian Continental Individual Open and Women’s Chess Championships that concluded today in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Irine Kharisma Sukandar had an impressive run in the tournament to secure the title with one round to spare, not worrying about the last round defeat to Tan Zhongyi.

Kateryna Lagno emerged Women’s World Rapid Champion by edging

The Cyprus Chess Federation and FIDE Zone 1.10, with the support of ECU and the FIDE Events Commission, are holding the 1st Individual FIDE Zone (1.10) Championship 2014 in Larnaca, Cyprus, on 21–30th April 2014.

The event is a twelve-player round-robin. Each member Federation is sending one player as its representative. The host Federation will have 2 players and the 12th player is selected from the top 3 players of the Zone.

Participants:

The Heart of America Spring Class Championships took place on April 19-20, 2014, at the Ramada Inn, 1601 N Universal Ave., Kansas City MO 64120.

The 49th edition of the Tournament Capablanca in Memoriam 2014 will take place on 7-18th May at the Habana Riviera Hotel in La Havana, Cuba.

The 13th Asian Continental Individual Open and Women’s Chess Championships are taking place 16th to 26th April 2014 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

The top five from the 2014 Asian Open Championship qualify for the 2015 World Cup. The 2014 Asian Women’s champion qualifies for the 2015 Women’s World Championship.

The The FIDE Women World Rapid Championship 2014 continued today at the Ugra Chess Academy in Khanty-Mansiy

Stockfish (3135), variation 080414 and Komodo modification 1217 lead the third Stage of the strongest computer competition TCEC – Season 6. They are on 13/18 points each, far ahead of the rest of the field.