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The Presidents Weekend Championship took place on 14-16th February at La Quinta Inn & Suites in Coral Springs, Florida, USA.

The tournament was organized by Boca Raton Chess Club. The playing format was 5-round Swiss with five sections (Open, U2100, U1800, U1500, U1000).

GM Julio Becerra won the Open section with 4,5/5 points.

The 2014 Zagreb Chess Open will be held on 17-24th March at the Panorama Zagreb Hotel, Krešimir Ćosić Square in Zagreb, Croatia.

The nine round Swiss tournament is organized by the Zagreb Chess Union and the Zagreb Sports Union.

The total prize fund is 7800 EUR, with 1550 EUR reserved for the champion. Last year the convincing winner was GM Robert Zelcic.

Georgian Grandmaster Baadur Jobava wins the David Bronstein Memorial in Minsk after edging Sergey Fedorchuk and Mikhailo Oleksienko (both Ukraine) on tie-break. The three players completed the event with 7,0/9 points each.

The Belarus Chess Federation organized the International Open Tournament from 11th to 19th February to mark the 90th anniversary of David Bronstein’s birth.

The 2014 Commonwealth Championships and 121st Scottish Championships will be held in Glasgow from 30 June to 8 July 2014.

The playing venue is Glasgow City College, 320 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G1 2TG.

The main event is the Commonwealth Championship which incorporates a number of other events including the Commonwealth Women’s Championship, the Scottish Championship and Senior Championships.

Stage 1a of the world’s strongest computer chess championship TCEC is coming to the final games.

On behalf of the Organizer of the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, it is a pleasure to announce that a travel fund of up to € 600.000 will be made available to federations who wants to participate in the Olympiad.

The aim of the travel fund is to help those federations who are in need of financial support in order to send teams to Tromsø.

One of the strongest national women chess championships, the Georgian Women Chess Championship 2014, is going to take place 17.02 – 01.03. 2014 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

The event will be an 11 rounds round robin, with the participation of 1 GM, 5 IM, 2 WGM, 1 WIM, 1 WFM, and a total of 12 players for average rating of 2303 ELO. Top seeded is GM Bela Khotenashvili with 2527 ELO.

The 1st International Chess Open Casino Graz 2014 is set to take place from 14th to 21st February at the Casino Graz and Joanneum Quarter in Graz, Austria. The tournament will be held in two groups: Open A for all players and Open B for players rated under 2000. Both groups will be played over 9 rounds of Swiss system.

The social events include Get Together reception, City Tour and Player’s Night.

We are pleased to announce that the former World Chess Champion, Vladimir Kramnik, has now confirmed that he’s going to play in Norway Chess Tournament in June.