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Four Emiratis, 9 others lead in Maktoum Bin Hamdan Cup International Junior Chess Tournament

Candidate Masters Sultan Al Zaabi and Omran Al Hosani continue to show fine form in 110-player Dubai Juniors Chess Tournament

Top 14 standings after round 3

The 49th International Chess Festival Biel must unfortunately be postponed by a week. It will now take place from Saturday, July 23 until Wednesday, August 3 2016. The dates planned previously overlap with the Tour de France passing through Bern, thus occupying most of the hotels in the region for several days. The Master Open (MTO) will be played over 9 rounds this year.

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Poikovsky chess 2016 aka Poikovsky – Anatoly Karpov tournament is going to take place July 23 – August 2 in Russia. It will be a single round robin with the participation of GM Dmitry Andreikin, GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek, GM Dmirty Jakovenko, GM Maxim Matlakov, GM Igor Kovalenko, GM Alexander Motylev, GM Ilya Smirin, GM Anton Korobov, GM Viorel Bologan, and GM Emil Sutovsky.

Greek Grandmaster and champion Vasilios Kotronias is the winner of the Aegean Open Championship “Ikaros 2016”. Kotronias collected 7,5 points in 9 games.

The 9th International Open Tournament of Paleochora is taking place from 20-27th July 2016, in Paleochora town, Crete.

The tournament is organized by the Municipality of Kantanos-Selino, Chania Chess Academy, Region of Chania and Greek Chess Federation.

The tournament format is 9-round Swiss and the playing venue is Paleochora Community Centre.

The total prize fund is 7000 EUR with 1800 reserved for the champion.

Top-seed Fide Master (FM) Viktor Matviishen of Ukraine and Candidate Masters (CM) Omran Al Hosani and Sultan Al-Zaabi, the highest-rated Emirati players in the tournament, hurdled their first-round assignments on Wednesday as the rest of the top-seeded players took off to a winning start in the 14th Dubai Juniors Chess Tournament – Sheikh Maktoum Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club.

A Grandmaster video analysis of the penultimate round of Stage 2 of TCEC. GM Iotov from Chessunleashed.com takes a look at the key encounter between the two contenders for the stage gold medal.

Replay the game and watch current live games here

The seventh day of the IX Bilbao Grand Slam Masters Final has finished and Magnus Carlsen has taken one step closer to his third title in the tournament contended in Biscay’s capital.

Was it a great defence by Giri or a missed opportunity by Carlsen? A review by GM Valentin Iotov of the Giri – Carlsen game in Bilbao as a preview of the upcoming World Chess Championship 2016