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XIV International RSSU Chess Cup «Мoscow Open-2018»

16th Annual Gonzaga Charity Classic will be held from 26 to 28 January. Venue will be Gonzaga College SJ. The tournament is divided in 3 sections
Masters: 1800+ (5 Rounds FIDE rated), Championship: 1100 – 1900 (6 rounds), Challengers: Below 1200 (6 rounds).

Caleta Hotel hosts the 16th edition of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival!

Top seed Grandmaster Gareyev Timur of USA shared the lead with 4/4 score after the fourth round of the 10th Chennai Open International Grandmaster Chess tournament 2018 for Sakthi Group Dr N Mahalingam Trophy at The Vijay Park Hotel, Chennai here today.

Gareyev, a Guinness record holder in simultaneous blindfold chess, has been playing his fourth-tournament-in-a-row in Indian circuit viz., Bhopal, Mumbai, Delhi and now Chennai Open GM tournament.

For the past several days there is increased interest in chess politics, with one of the most visited articles on Chessdom being the Russian Chess Federation election details. Our email is now full of comments by chess fans, politicians and analysts about the elections and mainly focusing on the participation of Kirsan Ilymzhinov. Practically all points to the interesting fact that the FIDE Executive board voted against the participation in FIDE elections of Mr.

IV Floripa Chess Open 2018 will be held from 19 to 25 january in Florianópolis. The tournament is 9 round Swiss. There will be more then 420 participants.The top players are GM Julio Granda
Zuniga, GM Axel Bachmann, GM Neuris Delgado, GM Alexandre Fier etc..

The Chess Olympiad is one of the major events in the world of sports, attracting more than 180 countries and around 4,000 athletes and officials.

This year Georgia will be organizing the 43rd Chess Olympiad. This large-scale event will start in Batumi on September 23 and end on October 6.

Sixteen countries had participated in the first Chess Olympiad but the 43rd Chess Olympiad is expecting the teams of women and men from approximately 190 countries.