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On Thursday, May 10, the Dutch Team Cup finals will take place in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

Format:
Four teams have qualified for the semi finals: LSG, Voerendaal, MuConsult Apeldoorn and Lonneker. The winners of the semi finals will play the finals. The losers of the semi finals will play for the 3rd-4th place.

The supervisory board of the Russian Chess Federation approved Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as candidate of the RCF for the upcoming FIDE elections on October 3rd in Batumi. The meeting took place in Grand Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Sochi. The RCF official website report states,

The Glen Stark affair, that went as a sonic boom through the chess world yesterday, provoked interesting reactions and revelations from all around the globe.

Related: FIDE elections, the story so far

In our 11 years of chess journalism in Chessdom, we have always aimed for full objectivity when covering FIDE elections or chess related politics. We thought nothing can surprise us anymore, yet it is the first time that we have to report on such a weird case.

The Open Internacional da Queima das Fitas 2018 was held from 27th April to 1st May at D.Luís Hotel in Coimbra, Portugal.

The event is included in “Circuito Nacional de Clássicas” of Portuguesse Chess Federation and was organized by Associação Académica de Coimbra (Chess Club) with the support of the Portuguese Chess Federation (FPX), Coimbra District Chess Association (AXDC), Queima das Fitas Organizing Committee and D. Luís Hotel.

Japan Chess National Championship was held from 29 April to 5 May in Tokyo.
45 players took part in the event.

The 32nd International Open Tournament Pula 2018 will take place 23-30th June at the Hotel Park Plaza Histria in Pula, Croatia.

The 9-round Swiss event is organized by the Chess Club Pula and Croatian Chess Federation. The total prize fund is 5340 EUR.

At the present 109 players from 16 countries are registered to take part in the event. Among them are 4 Grandmasters and 6 International Masters.

Tournament website

Say hello to the new superstar of computer chess – Xiphos, by Milos Tatarevic. Released just two months ago, Xiphos is now dominating the field in Div 2 of the Top Chess Engine Championship.

3:00pm 3rd May Beijing Time, 2018 FIDE women’s world chess championship match begins inside InterContinental Hotel Jing’an