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The Team Chess Championship Croatian Cup is taking place from 14th to 18th May, 2014 at Bluesun Hotels & Resorts in the town of Bol on Island Brac, Croatia.

The 23rd Annual Chicago Open will be held May 22-26, 2014, at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel, 601 North Milwaukee Ave, Wheeling, Illinois.

The event has 9 sections: Open, Under 2300/Unrated, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500, Under 1300, Under 1000/Unrated and Unrated/Provisional.

The Open Section will be a 9-round event held over 5-days (May 22-26). FIDE rated, GM and IM norms possible.

The Norwegian Chess Federation has announced the lineups for the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromso.

As a hosting country, Norway has the right to register two teams in each Open and Women section.

World Champion Magnus Carlsen will spearhead the local challenge in the Open.

While the U.S. chess king questioned who might bear his crown next, America’s queen began resizing hers.

Four-time champion Gata Kamsky walked through another uneventful draw on Monday afternoon – his fourth split in five rounds – while Varuzhan Akobian, Alejandro Ramirez and Daniel Naroditsky each gained traction in the standings by notching their first wins of the tournament.

Russian Grandmaster Boris Savchenko emerged winner of the 2014 Nakhchivan Open that was held on 4-12 May at the Chess Center in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan.

Stockfish 300414 continues winning and leading in the strongest computer competition TCEC Season 6 – Stage 4 with 18.5/29 points, maintaining a 1,5 point lead.

The Tschaturanga Open 2014 was held from 5th to 11th May, 2014 at Cafe Schönbrunn, in Vienna, Austria, in a 7 round Swiss Open format with total prize fund of 1600 €.

The French Chess Federation (FFE) has announced the lineups for the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway.

The third edition of Llucmajor Open is taking place from 11th to 18th May, 2014 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

More than 20 GMs are vying for the first prize of 1200 €. GM Julio Granda Zuniga is the top seed.

Within the set deadline, the ECU office received two candidacies for the President with the members of the tickets, as well as seven individual candidacies for the Board members of the European Chess Union.

The following nominations have been received: