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The 2014 SPICE Cup Open is taking place on 21-26th October 2014 at the Crowne Plaza Clayton Hotel in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

The 9-round Swiss open is sponsored by Webster University and the Susan Polgar Foundation.

The event offers the prize fund of $13,000 guaranteed (up from $11,000 last year) and the possibility to earn FIDE title norms.

The 2014 US Class Championship is set to take place from 31st October to 2nd November at the Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA.

The event consists of seven elo sections. The tournament format is 6-round Swiss with the time control G/120 +30.

The total prize fund is $20,000 based on 277 entries, with 73% of the prizes guaranteed.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 28 February to 1 March 2015 in Melbourne, Australia, by the Australian Chess Federation and under the auspice of FIDE.

The venue of the Seminar will be the Melbourne Chess Club, 66 Leicester Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065.

The 4th Liscate Chess Trophy 2014 took part on 17-19th October 2014 at the Centro Civico Polifunzionale in Liscate, a commune in the Province of Milan in the Italian region of Lombardy.

From 16 to 18 October, 2014, an International Conference “Chess in Schools” was held in Yerevan, Armenia, organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia, the World Chess Federation (FIDE), as well as the Armenian Chess Federation and the Chess Academy of Armenia, in cooperation with the Armenian State Pedagogical University named after Khachatur Abovyan.

The Sport University Association of Belgrade organizes “The Week of chess at the University of Belgrade” in the end of October. It will include three chess events, two of which have an international character.

For the past 9 years the central chess event at the University has been the traditional internet chess match between the University of Belgrade and the University of Texas at Dallas, entitled “Transatlantic Cup Svetozar Gligorić”.

The 24th European Youth Chess Championship has officially started. The competition gathered 989 young chess players from 45 European countries, divided in 12 categories: U8, U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18, boys and girls separately.

The Championship takes place in Batumi, coastal town in Georgia, 18-29 October, 2014 in hotel Sheraton Batumi, and is organized by the European Chess Union and Georgian Chess Federation.