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The 46th International Women’s Grandmaster chess tournament was held from 3rd to 11th March at the Hotel Slavija in Belgrade, Serbia.

The 10-player round robin event was organized by the Belgrade Chess Association, with sponsorship from Assembly of the City of Belgrade.

Candidates 2014, a qualification for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2014, are going to take place March 11 – April 1 in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia.

Candidates Chess 2014 participants include Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Dmitry Andreikin, Peter Svidler, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, and Sergey Karjakin. The total prize fund is 600,000 EUR and the winner of the Candidates qualifies to play with Magnus Carlsen in the FWCM in November.

Chinese Chess Individual Championships 2014 take place from 11th March to 22nd March 2014 in Xinhua, Jiangsu. It is a 12 player round robin event with open and women section.

The participants in the open section are GM Ding Liren, GM Yu Yangyi, the Women World Champion GM Yifan Hou, GM Wei Yi, GM Zhao Jun, GM Ma Qun, GM Wen Yang, GM Xiu Deshun, GM Zhou Jianchao, GM Zeng Chongsheng, IM Liu Qingnan, and Lin Chen.

Chinese Chess Individual Championships 2014 take place from 11th March to 22nd March 2014 in Xinhua, Jiangsu. It is a 12 player round robin event with open and women section.

The participants in the women section are WGM Ju Wenjun, WGM Tan Zhongyi, WGM Guo Qi, IM Shen Yang, WGM Ding Yixin, WGM Zhang Xiaowen, WGM Wang Jue, Lei Tingjie, WIM Zhai Mo, WIM Wang Doudou, WFM Xiao Yiyi, WIM Gu Tianlu.

The Chess Insider March magazine in PDF and PGN has issued the 4th edition of the magazine.

The 4th HDBank Cup International Open Chess Tournament 2014 is taking place on 10-15th March in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

The 9-round Swiss open will offer $35,000 in prizes. The winner will earn $12,000 and the top woman will claim $3,000.

The world’s strongest computer championship TCEC continues with Stage 1c. After 6 rounds it has a surprising leader. The 2900 club engine Protector 1.6 (2928) is leading the pack with 5,5/6. It has five victories and a draw vs last season’s champion Komodo.

The 23rd Annual Eastern Class Championships will be held from March 14-16, 2014, at the Host Hotel at Cedar Lake, 366 Main St, Sturbridge, Massachusetts.

The event has 7 sections: Master, Expert, Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D and Class E.

All sections have either 3-day (March 14-16) or 2-day (March 15-16) schedules to play in.

The event has a $20,000 prize fund, based on 240 entries, with $16,000 minimum guaranteed.

The HD Bank Cup 2014 chess tournament is going to take place March 10-15 in Vietnam. A total of 80 players are participating, top seeded is the 2700 club member GM Le Quang Liem. Mulitple international players are there including GM NI Hua (China), Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (Vietnam), GM Zhang Zhong (Singapore), GM Lu Shanglei (China), GM Gomez John Paul (Philippines), GM Shyam Sundar M. (India), etc.

All games will be broadcast on Chessdom with triple engine analysis by Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini, the strongest engines of TCEC

The 2014 UT Dallas Spring FIDE Open, underwritten by Turner Construction, is taking place from 8th to 13th March at The Embassy Suites – Park Central in Dallas, USA.

Participants and information

Schedule

Opening Ceremony – Saturday, March 8, 5:00 p.m.