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Kings and Princes drew 32-32 at the Nutcracker. Queens defeated Princesses 36-28. Grigoriy Oparin won the first men’s prize and will be invited to the supertournament Kortchnoi Zurich Chess Challenge.

The traditional Christmas event – Nutcracker generation tournament – ended at the Central House of Chess Player in Moscow on December 22. There were played two Scheveningen matches: Kings vs. Princes and Queens vs. Princesses.

The European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2016 were held from 14-18th December in Tallinn, Estonia, with a fast and very attractive chess formats.

GM Alexander Riazantsev from Russia became the winner of the Rapid competition with 9.5 points after 11 rounds of play. His compatriot GM Maxim Matlakov made the same score, but his tie-breaks were worse and he eventually finished second.

The 7th HDBank Cup International Chess Open 2017 is set to take place from 11-18th March at the First Hotel, 18 Hoang Viet Str, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.

From 5 to 9 December 2016 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Marrakech, Morocco, by the Royal Morocco Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Arab Chess Federation and under auspices of FIDE.

The venue of the Seminar was the Zalagh Kasbah Hotel & SPA Hotel in Marrakech.

The lecturer was IA Mahdi Abdulrahim (UAE), Councilor of the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer was IA Akkour Abdelfattah (MAR).

The European Rapid and blitz championship will have 581 participants, including top names as Radjabov, Wojtaszek, Zhigalko, Andreikin, Onishchuk, Ponomariov, Kovalenko, Inarkiev, Malakhov, Navara, Leko, Dreev, Vitiugov, Movsesian, etc. Full participants list here

Live games will be daily on Chessdom.com and ChessArena.com with computer analysis by the TCEC engines Stockfish, Houdini, and Komodo.

Everything is set for the European Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships 2016, which start tomorrow in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.The Championships will be the main event of the Paul Keres 100 Festival, dedicated to the 100th birth anniversary of Paul Keres, Estonian Sportsman of the 20th century and often referred as “The Eternal Second” i