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The Golden Cleopatra Open will be held in Cairo – Olympic Mondial hall at Eastern Company Club Center from 10th – 20th December 2017 under the patronage of Mr. Mohamed Osman Haroon, the Chairman of Eastern Company.

The tournament is open to all Fide-rated players with a standard rating of 1000 and above (as of 1st December 2017). Last day of registration & payment is Monday 4th December.

The tournament format is 10-round Swiss System accelerated Baku System with time control 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment per move for the whole game.

Great fights, quick draws, medals winning or losing in last minute – during the last round of WSCC 2017 in Acqui Terme players and spectators saw the whole range of action.

Talvsamband Føroya is holding the 2017 Runavík Open from 20-26th November at the Løkshøll in Runavík in the Faroe Islands.

The tournament format is 9-round Swiss with 59 participants from 16 countries, including 12 Grandmasters. FIDE title norms are possible.

There is no entry fee and the top prizes are EUR 1300/800/600/450/300 etc. There are also special prizes for juniors and elo sections.

The Portuguese Chess Federation will hold the Portugal Open from 3-9th February 2018 at the Gym of Sports Complex of Casal Vistoso in Lisbon.

The 12th Pavlodar Open is taking place from 21-29th November at the Estaya St. 83 in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.

The event is the 3rd stage of the Kazakhstan Cup and is organized by the Pavlodar Chess Federation and Kazakhstan Chess Federation.

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

The 1st Duchamp Open was organized by the Duchamp Internacional, FIDE Americas, Brazil Chess Confederation, FEXERJ and Clube de Xadrez Guanabara from 11-18th November at the South American Copacabana Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Festival consisted of the Master Group, U2200 Group A, U1800 Group B, IM, Blitz and Rapid tournaments.

The main Master Group had 62 participants from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Italy, Paraguay, Portugal and Uruguay.

The list of the upcoming FIDE Arbiters’ Seminars, that have been scheduled, is as follows:

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 19 to 21 January 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand, by the Thailand Chess Association, in cooperation with the Asian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

Multiple Russian champion Peter Svidler is the 13th participant in the Tata Steel Masters group of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament.

Born in Leningrad in 1976, Svidler has been among the world’s best chess players for years. He currently ranks 12th on the world list, with a rating of 2763. His highest ranking ever was fourth in 2004.

The 80th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament will take place in Wijk aan Zee from 12-28 January 2018.

Komodo and Houdini are the two finalists in this years edition of the premier event for computer chess – the Top Chess Engine Championship.