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The 40th Greek Women’s Championship is a 10-player round-robin tournament taking place from 2-10 January 2018 in the Philippion Hotel in Thessaloniki

The 26th Masters Chess Championship Elgoibar took place from 16th-22nd December, 2017, in the Town hall of Elgoibar, Spain.

The Championship was organized by the Basque Chess Federation, in collaboration with the Basque Government, Excellent City Council of Elgoibar, F.E.D.A. and Sociedad Zubi Ondo.

The prestigious closed event featured 10 players, among whom are 4 Grand Masters and 5 International Masters. In the very strong competition the winner of the Championship became GM Henrik Teske from Germany who scored 6 points.

The 29th Roquetas de Mar chess open will be held from 2-7 January 2018.The venue will be Hotel Bahia Serena.

The Top Chess Engine Championship Season 11 is going to start January 3rd, 2018.

The world’s premier computer chess championship TCEC concluded its 2017 edition.

King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2017 that takes place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia between 26th and 30th December 2017. The incumbent World Rapid and Blitz Champions — Sergey Karjakin (Russia) and Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), along with Magnus Carlsen (Norway), the highest-rated chess player in the world and World Champion in classical chess, and over 180 top grandmasters have confirmed their participation, making the King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Championships one of the strongest open events of the year.

Viswanathan Anand and Ju Wenjun for winning the FIDE World Rapid 2017 titles! Ju Wenjun was clear first in the women section with 11,5/15, while Anand battled with Fedoseev in the tiebreaks for the title.

Congratulations!

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