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European Senior Chess Championship for 2017 which took place in Sabadell, Spain from 11th-21st August finished yesterday.

The Championship was played in two different age categories: 50+ and 65+. The separate Women’s Championship was organized just for the 50+ category, while women 65+ played in the Open section and fought for separate prizes.

The new edition of TCEC is scheduled to take place in the last quarter of 2017.

Three rounds have been played in the European Youth Team Chess Championship 2017 which started on 16th of August in Rymanow Zdroj, Poland.

40 teams coming from 16 countries participate the Championship which is a new participation record.

From 10 to 13 August 2017 a FIDE Arbiters´ Seminar was organized in Panama City, Panama, by the Panama Chess Federation and under the auspice of FIDE.

The lecturer was IA Barbara Lopez Chavez Marino (CUB), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant lecturer was FA Roquelina Fandino Reyes (CUB).

The venue of the Seminar was the Continental Hotel, in Panama city

The lectures were given in Spanish language.

From 2 to 4 August 2017 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, by the US Chess Federation and under auspices of FIDE.

The fourth leg of the Grand Chess Tour wrapped up in Saint Louis with Levon Aronian dominating the field.

He won the tournament with two rounds to spare and three points ahead of his closest rivals, Sergey Karjakin and Hikaru Nakamura. He collected $37,500 and 13 GCT points and is now in third place overall in the tour standings.

The rapid and blitz portion of the tour are officially over and the last stop will be in London in December where the winner of the entire tour will be determined.

The Korchnoi Memorial takes place 15-25 August in St. Petersbur, Russia. Top players include GM Gata Kamsky, GM Shimanov, GM Kokarev, GM Alekseev, etc.

Live games with analysis will be daily on Chessdom and you can follow the event on the ChessArena android application for mobile phones.

The European Youth Team Chess Championship takes place in Rymanow Zdroj, Poland. A total of 39 teams coming from 17 European federation will participate the event, 18 teams in Girls section and 21 in the Open section.

All of them will play according to the Swiss system in 7 rounds with time control 90 min for 40 moves + 30 min for the rest of the game + 30 sec increment for every move played starting from the first move.

After day one of the blitz, Levon Aronian extended his lead to two points over his closest rival, Hikaru Nakamura.

Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura entered the day tied for second place only a point behind Aronian, but Nakamura had a more solid day; whereas Caruana had more decisive results, but also too many losses.

It is worthy to remember that in the Paris leg of the tour, Magnus Carlsen also had a two point lead but Vachier-Lagrave actually leapfrogged him in round eight of day two.

Levon Aronian emerged as the winner of the rapid portion of the Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz. He is being closely chased by Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura, who are only a point behind him.

Ian Nepomniachtchi, who entered day three tied with Aronian, lost his last round game to Hikaru Nakamura and is two points behind the leader.

There are still eighteen games of blitz to be played over the next two days, so anything can happen!