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The 23rd Annual North American Open will be held at Bally’s Casino Resort, 3645 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, Nevada.

The event has 7 sections: Open, Under 2300, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500 and Under 1250.

The Open Section will be a 9-round event held over 5-days (December 26-30). FIDE title norms are possible. Last year winner was GM Timur Gareev.

The 76th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament will take place from 10th to 26th January, 2014.

This year the event consists of two playing groups – Tata Steel Masters with 12 players and Tata Steel Challengers with 14 players. The fields have been finalised.

For the first time the Masters Group will play one round in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and one round in the High Tech Campus Eindhoven.

Abierto Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires “Copa Norberto La Porta” will take place on 14-21st December at the Salon Dorado de la Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires – Peru 160 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

190 players are registered to participate in the 9-round open tournament.

IM Siddharth Ravichandran upset top seed GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly in the 7th round of the SREI International Grandmasters Chess Tournament at Kolkata Town Hall on Wednesday.

The 10-round Grandmasters’ chess tournament is organised by Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy in association with Allsport Foundation.

The 4th ITT Jahv McGregor Open Tournament was held from 4th to 8th December at the Centro Comercial Americas Outlet Factory in Bogota, Colombia.

The massive 9-round Swiss event attracted 420 participants from 16 countries, including 15 Grandmasters and 27 International Masters.

The FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess (WOM) has been very active this year again in promoting chess for young women around the world. There have been on-going training sessions and opportunities given for top girls from Latin-America to improve, earn norms, and gain experience in international competition.

The 19th Open Chess Tournament “Bosnjaci” is set to take place on 3-9th January at the chess club in Bosnjaci, Croatia.

The 9-round Swiss event will offer 5000 EUR in prizes. Last year winner GM Nikola Sedlak will defend the title.

Participants:

London Chess Classic 2013 main event is going to be a rapid tournament with the participation of Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Boris Gelfand, Mickey Adams, Peter Svidler, Luke McShane, Judit Polgar, Nigel Short, Matthew Sadler, David Howell, Gawain Jones, Jonathan Rowson, Emil Sutovsky, and Andrei Istratescu.

The tournament runs from 11th to 15th of December. Games start daily at 15:00 CET.

The Mind Sports Games Chess 2013 is going to take place 11-19 December in Beijing, China. It will be one of the strongest rapid and blitz events of the year with the participation of some of the world’s top grandmasters.

The Mind Sports Games Chess 2013 is going to take place 11-19 December in Beijing, China. It will be one of the strongest rapid and blitz events of the year with the participation of some of the world’s top grandmasters.

In the men section we find Sergey Karjakin, Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk, Vassily Ivanchuk, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Leinier Dominguez Perez, Le Quang Liem, Ruslan Ponomariov, Teimour Radjabov, Hao Wang, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wang Yue, Gata Kamsky, Peter Leko, and Anish Giri.