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The 56th Portuguese Team Chess Championship  started on 18th January and finished on 23rd August 2014.

The 5th International Chess Festival “Yaroslav the Wise” features a double round robin tournament of six European Chess Champions in the period 2009-2014.

The 6th and final tournament of the FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix 2013-2014 will take place from 24th August to 7th September at the world’s largest chess club in Sharjah (UAE).

The 75th Armenian Men’s Individual Chess Championship is taking place from 21st August to 4th September in Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia.

The event is a 14-player round-robin tournament. Top seed is GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan (2582).

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The 5th International Chess Festival “Yaroslav the Wise” will feature a double round robin tournament of six European Chess Champions in the period 2009-2014.

The rapid event with the time control 15′+10” will be held on 26-27th August at the Yaroslavl State Historical and Architectural Museum.

The 21st Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival Masters Tournament is taking place from 20-29th August at the Abu Dhabi Chess & Culture Club in United Arab Emirates.

The main event of the Festival is Masters Tournament for foreign players rated above 2000 elo and all Abu Dhabi players.

After five round of play Russian Grandmaster Volkov Sergey 2583 emerged sole leader with 4,5 points.

The 4th International Chess Festival Riga Technical University Open was held on 15-24th August 2014 in the Latvian capital Riga.

The 2014 Stockholm Open was held  from 18th to 24th August 2014 in Stockholm, the cultural, media, political, and economic center of Sweden.

The 9-round Swiss Open tournament hosted 69 players from 8 different countries.

First place was shared by IM Jonathan Westerberg and GM Lars Karlsson on 7,5/9 points each, but Westerberg lifted the trophy on superior tie-break score, meanwhile adding 11 ELO points to his rating.

Competitive chess has become all work and discipline. We have anti-cheating, anti-doping and zero tolerance. Opening theory doesn’t stand still for a single day. It has become the norm that right after a round preparations start for the next. Where’s the fun, asks chess journalist and organizer Stefan Loeffler.

One event he fondly remembers is San Sebastian 2011/12, where Basque Chess, an invention by Grandmaster Felix Izeta, was introduced.

The Chess Club Brda, City of Split and Croatian Chess Federation organized the fourth edition of  Split Chess Open 2014 from 16th to 23rd August 2014 at Hotel Zagreb in Split, the second-largest city in Croatia, situated on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea.