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Chinese Chess Players Head Starting Lists of the FIDE World Team Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk

The FIDE World Team Championships will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk from June 16 (arrival) till June 27 (departure).

Modern chess literature is facing an explosion of constant opening books. It seems almost every week a new monograph is released detailing how to confront some defense or another. At the same time, titled players and reliable instructors warn against devoting oneself too much to opening study.

The 11th BPB Limburg Open was held from 2-5th June at the Sporthal de Geusselt in Maastricht, Netherlands.

The event consisted of five sections: Open A for players rated above 2050, Open B for players rated from 1800-2100, Open C1 and C2 for players rated under 1800, and Veterans Group.

The total number of participants throughout all sections was 432. All sections were completed over 7 rounds of Swiss system.

The Sharjah Chess Club organized the 22nd Sharjah International Chess Championship 2017 from 2-6th June. The 9-round Swiss event was with the rapid time control 15 min + 10 sec.

The local star GM Salem A.R. Saleh took the winner’s trophy after edging Elmar Magerramov, Vladimir Akopian and Bartosz Socko on tie-break.

119 players from 26 countries competed.

The 1st World Cadets Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships was held from 2-4th June in Minsk, Belarus. The championships were held in Palace of Sport, the same venue as the European Individual Chess Championship 2017.

626 young chess players from 24 countries took part in the rapid event.

Altibox Norway Chess 2017, the chess super tournament, has managed to gather the world’s top 10 best players for the 2017 edition.

The tournament aims to be amongst the top 3 strongest chess tournaments in the world. The 2017 tournament takes place from June 5 to 17 at the Clarion Energy Hotel and at the Stavanger Concert Hall.

The All India Chess Federation (AICF) will organize the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad in Ahmedabad, India from 10th December (Arrival) to 20th December (Departure) 2017 conducted under the auspices of Federation Internationale Des Echecs (FIDE).

The European Chess Union (ECU), the Education Committee of ECU (EC), and the International School Chess Union (ISCU) have the honour of inviting all National Chess Federations of the ECU to the First ECU School Team Internet Championships 2017 from November 16 to November 23, 2017.

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The Allegiance to Zayed Chess Tournament 2017 was held from 28th May to 1st June at the Dubai Chess & Culture Club, UAE.

The 9-round Swiss event with the rapid time control 15 min + 5 sec attracted 128 participants from 25 federations.

Grandmasters Bassem Amin from Egypt and Viorel Iordachescu from Moldova shared the first place with 8,0 points each. Amin took the winner’s trophy on better tie-break.

From 23 to 27 May 2017 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Moscow, Russia, by the Russian State Social University and the Russian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The lecturer was IA Artiom Akhmetov (RUS), FIDE Lecturer.

Five (5) National Arbiters from Russia and Kazakhstan participated in the Seminar and all of them participated in the examination test held after the lectures.