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The 2016 European Chess Club Cup is taking place from 5-13th November in Novi Sad, Serbia.

A near-record number of teams are participating – 62 in Open section and 14 in Women’s section.

The live commentary is provided by the resident host IM Miodrag Perunovic, special guests IM Eric Hansen and IM Milos Stankovic.

Serbian Chess Federation is hosting the 32nd European Club Cup and the 21st European Club Cup for Women.

The events will be held in the Ballroom of the 5* Hotel Park, Novi Sad, Serbia. The dates are 5th November (arrival and opening) to 13th November 2015 (departure).

Live games with analysis will be daily on Chessdom.com and ChessArena.com

European Chess Club Cup 2016 (men) live

The Russian Chess Championships Superfinal, which is underway in Novosibirsk, had a day off on October 22.

All chess events running under Chess in Museums project, carried out by RCF and Timchenko Charitable Foundation, feature a special program for a rest day, which primarily aims at children.

The Texas Collegiate Super Finals is a 4 board match between the 3 top University in Texas. The three universities will send an A team and B team. University’s A team cannot play their B Team.

Participants

Texas Tech University

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

University of Texas at Dallas

Schedule:

Sat. 10/22/16 Opening ceremony at 9:30 am

The 6th round of the Russian Superfinal was played on October 21 in Novosibirsk.

Ernesto Inarkiev celebrated his first victory, beating Dmitry Bocharov. Black failed to solve opening problems; the European champion outplayed his opponent on the queenside and won a pawn. In the subsequent game White was up to the technical task and converted the extra material into a victory.

The 5th round of the Russian Superfinal was played on October 20 in Novosibirsk.

In the men’s champpionship, Dmitry Jakovenko defeated Dmitry Bocharov. The grandmaster from Novosibirsk employed the Pirc Defense and launched a pawn offensive on the kingside, while White was attacking on the queenside. At some point Black played too risky, and White broke through in the center, seized the initiative and won a pawn. Bocharov resigned in a lost rook and bishop endgame.

Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras & Minister of Sports Aristides Baltas received the World U18 Girls Champion Stavroula Tsolakidou and congratulated her on the third world title (U14, U16 and U18).

The representatives of the Greek Chess Federation also attended the meeting.

“A lake full of ketchup” – By Mehul Gohil a.k.a Gorilla

Before this one, there had been no other chess movie I had seen that properly depicted the sport. Pawn Sacrifice, a take on the Fischer-Spassky match was horrible. Searching for Bobby Fischer was ok but nothing special. The old Luzhin Defence was bizzare…that’s not what chess is like.

The 4th round of the Russian Superfinal was played on October 19 in Novosibirsk.

The 3rd round of the Russian Superfinal was played on October 18 in Novosibirsk.

All games of the men’s championship ended in draws.

A relatively quiet game was played between Alexander Riazantsev and Nikita Vitiugov. They went for the Sicilian Defense, which after mass exchanges transposed to a queen and bishop ending. The game ended peacefully by perpetual.

Evgeny Tomashevsky and Peter Svidler played a similarly quiet positional game. They started to repeat moves in an endgame with opposite-colored bishops.