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FIDE publishes February 2014 FRL FIDE Rating List. The list of top players is published at Top lists page of FIDE ratings website. All players can check new ratings at the main page of FIDE ratings website.

The 7th International Chess Festival “Sport Summer 2014″ is scheduled to take place on 4-11th July in Hotel “Petrus” in Paraćin, Serbia.

The Governor of Gibraltar and Lady Dutton this afternoon visited the 2014 Tradewise Chess Festival at the Caleta Hotel. Sir Jim Dutton, who arrived in Gibraltar December last year, was visiting the festival for the very first time.

AMSTERDAM – Garry Kasparov received the first copy of New In Chess magazine 2014#1 when he visited the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. “I am delighted that you can replay all games without the need of a chess set”, says editor-in-chief Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, when he presented Kasparov with the iPad and the magazine. “This digital edition travels well. It is great that our readers can now choose between a paper and a digital edition. Or enjoy both!”

Nearly all top chess stars over the past 27 years have played the Magistral Ciudad de Leon. And that collection will be enriched in 2014 (5-9 June) with two of the biggest all times prodigies.

Both are Chinese: Yifan Hou, current Women’s World Champion, and Yi Wei (14 years old), who’s future looks very bright.

The Hungarian Chess Federation informed that Grandmaster Gyula Sax passed away on 25th January after a heart attack.

Gyula Sax (born 1951) was one of the world’s leading players in late 70′s and early 80′s. He won the Hungarian Championship twice and qualified for Candidate Matches from Subotica Interzonal in 1987.

Sax participated in ten Chess Olympiads, winning one gold and two silver medals with the team and one individual bronze medal.

The Women’s Superfinals of the Moscow Chess Championship will be the first event of the 10th Moscow Open International RSSU Cup. It will take place January 30th and 31st in corpus 8 of the Russian State Social University campus. Each of the events will be contested by the capital’s ten strongest players, among which are international chess stars.

The Men’s Superfinals of the Moscow Chess Championship will be the first event of the 10th Moscow Open International RSSU Cup. It will take place January 30th and 31st in corpus 8 of the Russian State Social University campus. Each of the events will be contested by the capital’s ten strongest players, among which are international chess stars.

On Tuesday Chessdom relayed information that World Champion Magnus Carlsen will visit Caxias do Sul in Brazil to participate in a number of events.

After the blind simul with visually impaired players, lecture, 4-player knockout tournament, press conference and a regular simul, Carlsen will play in the open rapid tournament Festa da Uva 2014.

The 1st International Open Tarvisio 2014 is set to take place on 17-21st April at the Palasport in Tarvisio, Italy.

The tournament is organized by the Comune di Tarvisio, Provincia di Udine and Accademia Internazionale di Scacchi.

The event will be held over 7 rounds of Swiss system with the time control 90 min + 30 sec per move. The total prize fund is 4500 EUR.