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FIDE and the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission announce the schedule of the workshops for the training of the International Arbiters as follows:

Magnus Carlsen commented on his official Youtube channel the recent events from the Candidates 2014. He concluded, “Only one player has remained stable, and that is Anand”. See the full analysis of the World Champion Magnus Carlsen.

World Champion Magnus Carlsen will visit Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology on 8th April.

The official part of the visit will take place on April 8 at the MIPT Concert Hall, where Magnus Carlsen will meet with MIPT students and guests.

Just as the Candidates tournament 2014 is entering in its decisive phase, multiple live events are starting all around the world. Chessdom will provide 24/7 coverage with analysis, here is a list of the most important events of the week.

Latvian Railway Open

The 3rd Balkan Rapid Chess Festival will take place on 12-13th April in Hotel Geranion, near Nikiti-Halkidiki, Greece.

The 10-round Swiss-system FIDE rated event with the time control 15 min + 3 sec is organized by the Municipality of Sithonia in cooperation with Thessaloniki & Halkidiki Chess Union.

The scoring system is 3 points for win, 1 point for draw, 0 points for loss. Draw offers are forbidden.

Viswanathan Anand took a practical decision to accept draw against Dmitry Andreikin in a better, but extremely complicated position. Considering the other results, Anand is coming closer to challenging World Champion Magnus Carlsen to another match.

Levon Aronian – Vladimir Kramnik and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov – Sergey Karjakin were drawn, while Veselin Topalov won a nice game against Peter Svidler.

The Greek Chess Championships 2014 is taking place from 29 March to 6th of April.

Live games daily on Chessdom with analysis by Komodo, Houdini, and Stockfish.

The Greek Women Chess Championships 2014 is taking place from 29 March to 6th of April.

Live games daily on Chessdom with analysis by Komodo, Houdini, and Stockfish.

Riga Chess federation has a pleasure to announce the Latvian Railway Open, one of the strongest rapid chess opens in the World.

The tournament will be held on 28-30 March, 2014, at the Latvian railway museum in Riga, Latvia. The tournament will be held in three groups A, B and C.

Top participants include Vassily Ivanchuk, Alexei Shirov, Vladimir Malakhov, Sergei Zhigalko, Viktor Bologan, Loek Van Wely, Igor Lysyj, Ogor Kovalenko, Daniel Fridman, David Navara, Sergei Azarov, etc.