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9th Pfalz-Open 2018 was held from 09 to 13 February in Neustadt.
223 players took part only in the A tournament.

GM Toms Kantanz is the winner with 7.5 out of 9, followed by 9 players with 7 points. The best tie-break had GM Daniel Fridman, GM Jinshi Bai and GM Vitaly Kunin.

full standings Pfalz-open 2018

9th Weekend Tournament Borča will be held on 15th February in Beograd. It will be Swiss 9 round with time control 15 minutes per game.
At least 100 players are expected. Top seeded players are IM Nikola Ostojic Nikola, IM Zoran Arsovic , GM Borko Lajthajm etc…

Lighthouse InterSchools Chess Tournament/Coast Regional Qualifiers -U8, U10, U12 were held on 10. 02 in Nyali Primary School, Mombasa.
The tournament was held in 6 rounds.

Winner in the group under 18 was Gideon Mtango, and in the group under 12 winner was Abraham Amunga

Final ranking under 18

Andscacs is the winner of Division 1 of TCEC Season 11.

From 9 – 13 February a Fischer Random Match between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura is organized in Høvikodden, just outside Oslo.

The Chess House GM tournament is a 10-player round-robin tournament taking place from 9-18 February 2018 in Aarhus, Denmark. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. No draws are allowed before move 30.

The 2018 Candidates Tournament will be played in Berlin on 10-28 March. The winner will get a chance to fight for the World Championship title against Magnus Carlsen this November in London.

GM Parham Maghsoodloo is the winner of 26th International Fajr Festival which was held from 3 to 10 February in Mazandaran – Amol.
Iranian GM won it with great result 7,5 out of 9, point clear from IM Amin Tabatabaei, GM Pavel Ponkratov and few more players with 6,5.

The Serbian grandmaster Aleksandar Indjić is the winner of the Portugal Open 2018

The strongest tournament ever held in Portugal, that gathered 272 chess players from 42 countries in the second pavilion of the Municipal Sports Complex of Vistoso Casal, in Lisbon.