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The Pavlodar Open will take place on 10-19th December at the Estaya St. 83 in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.

The tournament is organized by the Kazakhstan Chess Federation, Management of tourism, physical training and sports of the Pavlodar area, and Pavlodar Chess Federation.

The playing format is 10-round Swiss and the tournament will be valid for FIDE rating and norms.

Tournament director is GM Kotsur Pavel. The prize fund is 12000 $, with the first prize being 3000 $.

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The 40th Annual Eastern Open is set to take place on 26-29th December at the Doubletree Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland.

The event will be played over seven rounds of Swiss system and in six sections: Open, U2200, U1900, U1700, U1500 and U1300.

The prize fund is $17,500, with Open section prizes guaranteed and remaining prizes based on 220 paid entries.

Grandmaster-elect Danyyil Dvirnyy convincingly won the 73rd Italian Chess Championship by finishing the event with 8,0/11 points, a full point ahead of the last-year champion GM Alberto David and GM Sabino Brunello.

The Championship was held from 21st November to 2nd December at the Hotel Villa Maria Regina, via della Camilluccia 687, in Rome. Earlier Rome hosted the prestigious event 66(!) years ago.

The Hungarian Chess Championship 2013 is taking place 2-11 December in Gyula. It is a ten player round robin, rounds starting daily at 15:00 CET.

Participants are Berkes Ferenc 2677, Banusz Tamas 2598, Gonda Laszlo 2552, Horvath Csaba 2537, Medvegy Zoltan 2537, Horvath Adam 2531, Pap Gyula 2522, Toth Ervin 2477, Czebe Attila 2451, and Nagy Gabor 2404.

The 19th International Open Tournament “Villa de Navalmoral” is taking place on 5-8th December at the hotel Moya in Navalmoral de la Mata (Cáceres), Spain.

The tournament will be played over 7 rounds of Swiss system. 90 players from 16 countries are participating, including 14 Grandmasters.

The total prize fund is 12,300 EUR, with 3000 EUR dedicated for the winner.

The draw for the group stages of the London Chess Classic took place on Wednesday 4th December at Ravenscroft Primary School in Newham.

Pupils at the school conducted the draw in the presence of Malcolm Pein and deputy arbiter David Sedgwick.

The players were divided into four pools on the basis of their FIDE Rapidplay ratings, using Standard play ratings for players without Rapidplay Ratings.

The prize giving and closing ceremony of the World Team Chess Championship will be at 19:00 local time (18:00 CET). You can follow the live video here at the official website

The 15th ASEAN+ Age-Group Chess Championships are scheduled to take place on 3-12th June, 2014, at the Conrad Macao, Cotai Central in Macau.

Standard Chess: Each player has 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment.
Rapid Chess: Each player has 15 + 10 seconds increment.
Blitz Chess: Each player has 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment.