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Karpos OPEN 2018 is traditional open chess tournament 8th in a row, for any interested chess player no mater of the rating, title or category in organization by the municipality Karpos, one of the municipalities in the capital city of Republic of Macedonia, Skopje in collaboration with Chess Club Gambit Asseco.

The “26th Ferdowsi Cup” International Chess Festival will be held in “Mashhad, Iran” from March 2-9.
The festival consists of three open tournaments:
Tournament A For players with a FIDE rating higher than 2000.
Tournament B For players with a FIDE rating lower than 2001.
Tournament C For players under 14 years old.

Palais des sports Jean Weille in Nancy

16th international Chess Festival will be held from 3 to 4 March in Nancy.

The 16th International Chess Festival Aeroflot Chess Open 2018 was held in Moscow from 19 to 28 February.
In the A tournament 92 players took part.
The winner is GM Vladislav Kovalev with 7 points out of 9 who also qualifies for Dortmund supertournament.

Eight rounds of the International chess festival Aeroflot Open 2018 have been played in Moscow. In the main tournament, Vladislav Kovalev (Belarus) defeated Amin Tabatabaei (Iran) to take the sole lead with 6.5 points once again.

Vladislav Artemiev, Igor Lysyj, Dmitry Gordievsky (all from Russia), Tigran L. Petrosian, Gabriel Sargissian (both from Armenia), Victor Bologan (Moldavia), Amin Tabatabaei, S.P. Sethuraman (India), and Anton Korobov (Ukraine) are trailing by one point.

The 2018 Spring Chess Classic is a 10-player round-robin tournament taking place from 6-14 March in the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis, USA.

The Brazil Open – Poços de Caldas is a 6-round Swiss tournament taking place from 2-4 March 2018. Players receive 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. 110 players are expected to take part.

The 3rd Annual George Washington Open was held from February 23-25, 2018, at the Westin Tysons Corner, 7801 Leesburg Pike (VA-7), Falls Church, Virginia.

The event featured five sections: Major, Under 2100, Under 1800, Under 1500 and Under 1200.

The Major section had 44 participants. Grandmaster Alexander Shabalov took a clear first place with 4,5/5 points to earn $1900 top prize.

The “Accentus Young Masters 2018” will take place in the historic building “Hotel Schloss” in Bad Ragaz from February 27th to March 8th. In this nine-round invitation tournament, four young Swiss players will meet six strong competitors from five nations.