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Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta is the winner of the 8th Tashkent International Open – Memorial of Georgy Agzamov, that was held on 14-24th May in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

The French Highest League for men TOP-12 is taking place from 24th May to 3rd June, 2014 in Saint-Quentin, Picardy, France.

The best teams, who qualified for this event are: the last-year champion Clichy, Strasbourg, Metz Fischer, Bischwiller, Mulhouse Philidor, Chalons en Champagne, Tours de Haute Picardie, Evry Grand Roque, Rueil Malmaison, Montpellier and Bois Colombes.

The Chess Club Marseille refused to play, thus only 11 teams will compete for the title “Champion of France”.

The 9th Edmonton Chess Festival is scheduled to take place from 20th to 29th June, 2014 at the Edmonton Chess Club in the city of Edmonton, Canada.

On 17 and 18 May 2014 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Melbourne, Australia, by the Chess Victoria in cooperation with the Australia Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The venue was the seminar hall of the University of Third Age (U3A) Knox, in Melbourne.

The lecturer was IA N.Y. Wong (SIN), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer was IA Peter Tsai (AUS).

The lectures were in English language.

The Attica Cup – Final Four 2014 will be played from 31st May to 1st June, 2014 in one of the world’s oldest cities Athens, the capital and largest city of Greece.

The tournament, organized by ASOP Dias Chess Club and the Union of Attica Chess Clubs, will consist of 4 teams with 4 boards each. Two matches (semi-finals and finals) will determine the best one.

Tournament website

“Not only have the floods in Serbia had their tolls, but also very sad news came today: GM Dragoljub Velimirovic passed away on May 23, 2014 at the age of 72.

India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive Highlights of the Asian Continental Chess Championships 2014 played at Sharjah, UAE on its DD Sports Channel from 26-29th May.

Filmed and Produced by Vijay Kumar the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under: