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The 41st Chess Olympiad takes place from August 1–14th, 2014, in the city of Tromsø, Norway.

The event includes 881 participants from 178 different countries.

The 41st Chess Olympiad takes place from August 1–14, in the city of Tromsø, Norway.

The event includes 689 participants from 134 different countries. Top seed is the team of China, led by the world women champion GM Yifan Hou.

The 41st Chess Olympiad takes place from August 1–14th, 2014, in the city of Tromsø, Norway.

The event includes 881 participants from 178 different countries.

The 41st Chess Olympiad takes place from August 1–14, in the city of Tromsø, Norway.

The event includes 689 participants from 134 different countries. Top seed is the team of China, led by the world women champion GM Yifan Hou.

Russian Grandmaster Andrey Rychagov won another trophy in the Palechora Open to round up a hat-trick of consecutive victories, having previously claimed the tournament in 2012 and 2013.

The 9th edition of the annual Open Women’s Bulgarian Chess Championship “Thracian Princess” took place on 21-25th July 2014 at the County Youth House in Vratsa, a city in northwestern Bulgaria, at the foothills of the Balkan Mountains.

The event was organized by Chess Club “Vratsa” and Bulgarian Chess Federation under the auspices of the Municipality of Vratsa in a 7-round Swiss format with a time control 90′ + 30″.

The Chess Club Brda, City of Split and Croatian Chess Federation are organizing the 2014 Split Chess Open on 16-23rd August at Hotel Zagreb in Split, Croatia.

The tournament system is 9-rounds Swiss and the total prize fund is 8500 EUR.

Last year winner was GM Davorin Kuljasevic

Tournament website

The 5th International Chess Festival Terre degli Elimi took place on 19-25th July 2014, in Erice, a historic town in the Province of Trapani, in Sicily, Italy.

The event was a 9-round Swiss, organized by ASD “Amici della Scacchiera” di Erice.

The 2014 Canadian Open (Championnat ouvert du Canada) was held on 19-26th July in the “Grand Salon” of the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth, in Montreal.

Mr Gilad Japhet, the organizer of the 2nd Gideon Japhet Memorial Chess Tournament, son of Gideon Japhet,  founder and CEO of MyHeritage.com – one of the most popular websites connecting people using genealogy, agreed on an exclusive interview for Chessdom.

It reveals much about the great festival in Yerusalem, including chess stars Boris Gelfand and Peter Svidler. Find out interesting facts about the life of Gideon Japhet and the relation between the first and second World Chess Champions Wilhelm Steinitz and Emanuel Lasker!