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The 10th Philadelphia International tournament was held from July 5-10, 2016, at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

GM Axel Bachmann from Paraguay and GM Aleksandr Shimanov from Russia finished tied first with 7,0/9 points to earn $2250 each.

Carlsen and Karjakin played today a promo game at the presentation of the Bilbao Final Masters 2016. Here is the video of the promo game, the presentation (in English after minute 3:45), and the press conference with the players.

Live games from Bilbao Masters 2016 start tomorrow and will be with computer analysis on Chessdom.com and ChessArena.com

A friendly match between European champion 2016 Ernesto Inarkiev and World Vice-Champion 2012 Boris Gelfand will take place on June 12-22 in Magas, the capital of Ingushetia Republic.

The Bilbao Chess Grand Slam Masters Final 2016 will take place between the 13th and 23rd July.

The European Chess Universities Games 2016 will take place in “Pauk” hall in Zagreb, Croatia from 12-15th July. The technical organizer is Zagreb Chess Federation.

More than 150 participants from 15 federations are participating in the Ikaros Chess 2016. Live games with analysis will be daily on Chessdom.com with the TCEC participants Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini.

More about Ikaros 2016

39th International Chess Tournament Ikaros 2016

More rapid chess this year

The 3rd Gideon Japhet Memorial ACP Open is taking place from 10-15 July in Jerusalem, Israel. Top seeded players include GM Naiditsch, GM Nabaty, GM Bortnyk, GM Antipov, GM Huzman, etc.

will be live daily on Chessdom.com and ChessArena.com at 16:00 CET with computer analysis by the TCEC participants Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini.

The 2016 European Youth U18 Team Chess Championship is taking place in Hotel Celeia in Celje, Slovenia from 10-16 July. Live games will be daily on Chessdom.com and ChessArena.com with computer analysis by the TCEC participants Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini, in cooperation with the European Chess Union

European Youth Team Chess Championship Boys U18

The 16th International Chess Festival in honor of Miguel Najdorf is taking place in the Warsaw from 8-16 July, 2016. Games start daily at 17:00 CET and will be live with triple engine analysis by ChessArena.com

The tournament format in the Open A-B-C is Swiss system in 9 rounds with time control 90 min. for 40 moves + 30 min. for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.

The 2016 Norwegian Chess Championship takes place in Tromsø from July 9-16. The Elite group boasts 22 players of rating 2350+. Games start daily at 16:00 CET.