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In the 6th round of the Women’s World Championship Match the defending champion Mariya Muzychuk lost with white pieces and allowed her opponent

Modern Chess – the pdf and pgn magazine by Grandmasters for aspiring players – has its February edition available in the Chessdom shop here.

Commercializing, professionalizing, developing, enriching, and growing chess as a sport is a fantastic thing. But not at the expense of chess community traditions, history, and common chess knowledge.

Friday March 4th AGON announced a controversial move to monopolize the chess games from the Candidates 2016.

Latvian player IM Toms Kantans, managed to beat the top seed in Stockholm Chess Challenge,

The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) has unveiled the feature films in the Spotlight, Midnight, and Special Screening sections. Also announced was the Centerpiece film, Works In Progress screenings, and the feature film lineup for the 10th annual Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival. The 15th edition of TFF will take place from April 13-24 in New York City.

The 6th HDBank Cup International Chess Open 2016 is set to take place from 8-13th March at the First Hotel, 18 Hoang Viet Str, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.

The event is a 9-round Swiss open tournament with an average Elo rating of 2350.

Chinese player GM Wang Hao (2717) heads the field of 71 players from 12 different countries, including 15 GMs, 2 WGMs, 23 IMs, 2 WIMs, 10 FMs and 2 WFMs.

The Candidates Tournament 2016, together with the Chess Olympiad in Baku and the World Chess Championship in New York, is one of the top tournaments of the year.

The Silver Lake Chess Festival 2016 is set to take place from 19-26th June in Danubia Park Hotel on Silver Lake, Serbia.

The Festival is organized by the Branicevo Chess Union, Chess Club VGSK, municipality Veliko Gradište and Danubia Hotels.

The Organizing Committee is preparing a rich programme for all ages and playing levels:

The Reykjavik Open 2016 is held for the 31st time from 8-16th March, 2016, in Harpa, the 28.000 sqm. concert hall, in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The tournament format is 10-round Swiss with the time control 90 min/40 moves+30 min+30 sec/move 1. A total of 246 players are registered to take part, among them being four members of the 2700-club, full list here.