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The list of the upcoming FIDE Arbiters’ Seminars, that have been scheduled, is as follows:

RUSSIA, Sochi, 17-22 April 2014 (Russian lang.)
ENGLAND, Sunningdale, 18-20 April 2014 (English lang.)
AUSTRALIA, Melbourne, 17-18 May 2014 (English lang.)
PALESTINE, Ramallah, 1-4 June 2014 (Arab lang.)
MACAU, 4-8 June 2014 (English lang.)
USA, Tarrytown, 8-12 June 2014 (English lang.)
ECUADOR, Guayaquil, 9-11 June 2014 (Spanish lang.)

Panagiotis Nikolopoulos
Chairman
FIDE Arbiters’ Commission

Top Moldavian player GM Viktor Bologan emerged winner of the International Rapid Chess Festival – Veaceslav Cebanenco Memorial after an exciting last round and Armageddon tie-break.

The Veaceslav Cebanenco Memorial took place on 1-2nd April at the Republican Chess and Draughts Club, Sciusev street 111, in Chisinau, Moldova.

Three engines lead the second stage of TCEC Stage 2. Rybka (3076 ELO) is back on top with 9/12, together with Fire (2984 ELO) and last season’s champion Komodo (3131 ELO).

In the twelfth round Komodo and Fire drew against Texel and Gull respectively, while Rybka managed to outplay Junior with the black pieces in Benoni Defence. You can see the win of Rybka below:

Junior 13.3 (2931) – Rybka 4.1 (3076) [A65]

TCEC Season 6 – Stage 2 (12), 04.04.2014

19… Nd3+!

The DYTM Raja Dr. Nazrin Shah KL International Open Chess Championship 2014 is starting today in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and continues until 11th April.

The tournament will be played over 9 rounds using the Swiss System according to World Chess Federation (FIDE) Title & Rating Regulations.

The traditional match between ”Blondes” and “Brunettes” took place on 1st April in the restaurant “Carlson” in Moscow.

This time Caissa favored the Blondes who won with the score 48,5:32,5 to take the overall lead 2,5:1,5 in all matches held from 2011.

Grandmaster Valentina Gunina and International Master Maria Fominikh recorded the best individual results of 8,5/9 points each. IM Alina Bivol collected 8 points.

Among the Brunettes GM Marina Guseva excelled to finish with 7 points.

Ukrainian Grandmaster Illya Nyzhnyk recently decided to begin his higher education in the United States. He was offered scholarships from multiple excellent universities. At the end, he decided to attend Webster University and applied for admission less than a month ago.

He just passed his TOEFL exam, and was officially admitted earlier today. He will begin his study in St. Louis in a few months.

Q: Hello Zurab, thank you for accepting to answer a couple of questions for Chessdom. Your federation has made a rich bid for the Olympiad 2018 and the World Cup 2017. As I understand with your personal support the combined budget for the Olympiad and the World Cup has grown up to 20 million USD! Can you tell us how did you convince the government to accept this?

The 8th Annual Long Island Open was held from March 28-30, 2014, at the Ramada Plaza Long Island MacArthur Airport Hotel, 1730 N. Ocean Ave, Holtsville, New York.

The 1st quarter FIDE Presidential Board was held on 30th March at the conference room of Ugra Classic Complex in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

This summer in Sicily there will be a nice international chess festival – the 5th “Terre degli Elimi”. It will be one intense chess week in July.

Erice is a magic ancient place and in the afternoons the players are free to visit places of incomparable beauty and charm as Segesta, the Egadi Islands, Zingaro, Scopello.