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2018 FIDE women’s world chess championship match had the 5th game inside InterContinental Hotel Jing’an Suburb Shanghai on 9th May. The challenger Ju Wenjun defeated the current champion Tan Zhongyi.

The Icelandic Open 2018 – Hermann Gunnarsson Memorial is scheduled to take place from 1-9th June at the Valsheimilið in Reykjavík.

The 10-round Swiss event is open to all players and available for FIDE title norms.

The total prize fund is 7500 EUR of which 5000 is reserved for main prizes, 1000 for Icelandic champions, 1000 for women and 500 for elo sections. The overall winner will be awarded with 2000 EUR.

Tournament director is IO Gunnar Bjornsson and chief arbiter is IA Omar Salama.

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The 3rd Yerevan Open International Chess Tournament is scheduled to take place from 1-11th November at the Chess Academy of Armenia in Yerevan.

The tournament is open to all Fide rated players and the format is 9 round Swiss system.

The total prize fund is 20.000 USD. Main prizes are USD 4500 / 3000 / 2000 / 1200 / 900 / 600 / 400 / 200.
There are also special prizes for women, U2400, U2200 and U2000.

A FIDE Arbiters Seminar was organized from 1-5 April 2018 in Damascus, Syria, by Syrian Chess Federation and the Syrian Olympic Commission, in cooperation with Asian Chess Association and under the auspices of FIDE.

The venue of the Seminar was the Elmohafza Club, in Damascus.

The lecturer was IA Hassan Khaled (EGY), FIDE Lecturer. The lectures were in Arabic language.

From 21 to 25 April 2018 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Sochi, Russia, by the Russian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The Lecturer was IA Alexander Tkachev (RUS), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant lecturer was IA Vladimir Staratorzhskiy (RUS).

The language of the Seminar was Russian.

Our second annual tournament will be held on Sunday, May 20, 2018. All net proceeds will be donated to Mount Sinai Hospital’s Ovarian Cancer Translational Research Laboratory, a genomic research program dedicated to uncovering the genetic basis for the early detection and prevention of ovarian cancer.

All six players of the ACCENTUS Grandmaster Tournament are now known. World Champion Magnus Carlsen will also face world number 3 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) in Biel.

TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament was a 6-player round-robin tournament taking place from 4-8 May 2018 in Malmo.

The 2018 Summer Chess Classic is a 10-player round-robin tournament taking place from 15-23 May in the St. Louis Chess Club, USA. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, with a 30-second increment starting from move one.

The 2018 Summer Chess Classic is a 10-player round-robin tournament taking place from 15-23 May in the St. Louis Chess Club, USA.