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The first division of the 56th Portuguese Team Chess Championship is taking place on 17-23rd August 2014.

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The 89th French Individual Chess Championship for men is taking place on 17-28th August 2014 in Nimes, a city located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Cévennes mountains in Southern France.

The Amateur Chess Tournament Open Topusko 2014 was organized by Chess Society Sisak, Chess Union of Sisak Moslavina County and TEOS Zagreb at the Grand Hall of Hotel Toplica in Topusko, a spa town in Croatia on 8-15th August 2014.

The 89th French Individual Chess Championship for women is taking place on 17-28th August 2014 in Nimes, a city located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Cévennes mountains in Southern France.

The Grand Asian Chess Challenge International Inter-Varsity Chess Championship 2015 is scheduled to take place from 26th to 31st January 2015 at the Tuanku Bahiyah Residential College at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, the federal capital and most populous city in Malaysia.

The 2014 edition of French Individual Chess Championship for Veterans is taking place on 17-28th August 2014 in Nimes, a city located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Cévennes mountains in Southern France.

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The 4th edition of Split Chess Open 2014 is taking place on 16-23rd August 2014 in Split, the second largest city in Croatia.

The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with a prize fund in the amount of 8.500 €.

Top seed is Croatian GM Ante Brkic (2596).

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ZMDI Open 2014 is taking place on 15-23rd August 2014 at the Wyndham Garden Dresden in the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.

The event is a 9-round Swiss Open with first prize in the amount of 2.000 €.

Top seed is GM Ferenc Berkes from Hungary (2658)

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

The event is a 9-round Swiss with a guaranteed first prize in the amount of 3.000 €.

212 players from 36 different countries take part in the tournament, including 35 GMs, 34 IMs, 3 WGMs and 4 WIMs.

Top seed is GM Alexei Shirov (Latvia)

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The 20th Hogeschool Zeeland Chess Tournament took place on 2-9th August at the University of Applied Sciences in Vlissingen, Netherlands.

The 9-round Swiss Open was organized by the Stichting Schaak Walcheren.

GM Michal Krasenkow repeated the last year’s success and won another trophy in HZ Tournament.