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The Railway Bank Open, formerly Arad Open, was organized by the ACS Sah Club Vados from 4-10th August at the Cultural Palace in Arad, Romania.

The event consisted of four sections: Main Open, U12, U10 and U8 youth tournaments. All groups were played over nine rounds of Swiss system.

The main section had 230 participants. GM Aleksandar Mista of Poland took a clear first place with 8,0 points, half a point ahead of GMs Andrey Vovk (UKR) and Krzysztof Jakubowski (POL).

A MEGA offer on the popular Chess Insider pdf and pgn magazine is available in the next 48h here at the Chessdom shop.

Lewis Ncbube interviewed by Goran Urosevic (photo Kirill Merkuriev)

Dear Chess Friends,

Batumi, Georgia, won the bidding procedure for the 2018 Chess Olympiad. The event will be accompanied by World Cup 2017 in popular resort on the Black Sea. (stay tuned for more details from the meeting today in Tromso)

The proposed budget for both events is exceeding 20 million USD.

The 2014 Sinquefield Cup will be the highest-rated tournament in the history of chess, bringing six of the world’s top-nine Grandmasters together at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.

Canada broke ranks with its traditional Western allies in this FIDE election and supported the incumbent administration for the first time in 28 years.

The 13th World University Chess Championship is set to take place from 17th to 24th August at the Park Hotel Diament in Katowice, Poland.

The Championship is organized by the Polish Chess Federation and FISU, and will be held in two sections – Men and Women.

Each national federation is entitled to register up to 8 players in total. Both sections will be played over nine rounds of Swiss system.

Tournament website

Tromso, Norway – The President of the Russian Chess Federation, Andrey Filatov, and his counterpart from the Moldovan Chess Federation, Igor Dodon, signed an agreement today on cooperation in promoting chess in schools.