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The Aimchess Rapid, the 4th event on the $2 million 2023 Champions Chess Tour, features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if you lose one match you drop down to a Losers bracket and can still win the tournament. In the Grand Final if the player from the Winners bracket loses, there’s a rematch. The total prize fund is $235,000, with a top prize of $30,000 (150 Tour points) in Division I, $10,000 in Division II (50 points) and $5,000 (20 points) in Division III.

The 2023 FIDE Women’s World Championship is a 12-game match between defending champion Ju Wenjun and her Chinese compatriot Lei Tingjie. The match runs July 5-23, with the first 6 games in Ju Wenjun’s home city of Shanghai and the rest of the match in Lei Tingjie’s Chongqing. The first player to 6.5 points wins the match, while a 6:6 tie will be settled by tiebreaks. The prize fund is €500,000, split 60:40 in favour of the winner, or 55:45 if tiebreaks are needed.

The St. Veiter Jacques-Lemans-Open is taking place from 8–15 July 2023 in St. Veit/Glan, Austria. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Yevgeniy Roshka, Davor Rogic, Leon Mazi, Fabian Matt, Florian Sandhoefner, David Schernthaner, Vladimir Hresc, Franz Riemelmoser, Kurt Fahrner, etc.

The St. Veiter Jacques-Lemans-Open is taking place from 8–15 July 2023 in St. Veit/Glan, Austria. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Yevgeniy Roshka, Davor Rogic, Leon Mazi, Fabian Matt, Florian Sandhoefner, David Schernthaner, Vladimir Hresc, Franz Riemelmoser, Kurt Fahrner, etc.

The South Wales Open is taking place from 7–12 July 2023 in Bridgend. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Boris Chatalbashev, Oleg Korneev, Jack Rudd, Daniel Kozusek, Joakim Nilsson, Jacob Connor Boswell, Alan M Byron, etc.

The South Wales Open is taking place from 7–12 July 2023 in Bridgend. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Boris Chatalbashev, Oleg Korneev, Jack Rudd, Daniel Kozusek, Joakim Nilsson, Jacob Connor Boswell, Alan M Byron, etc.
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The 2023 FIDE Women’s World Championship is a 12-game match between defending champion Ju Wenjun and her Chinese compatriot Lei Tingjie. The match runs July 5-23, with the first 6 games in Ju Wenjun’s home city of Shanghai and the rest of the match in Lei Tingjie’s Chongqing. The first player to 6.5 points wins the match, while a 6:6 tie will be settled by tiebreaks. The prize fund is €500,000, split 60:40 in favour of the winner, or 55:45 if tiebreaks are needed.

The Israeli Women’s National League will take place from the 6th to the 8th of July in Ramat Gan, Israel as a 5-round team Swiss. The time control is 90 minutes for the entire game with a 30-second increment beginning from move 1. The top five rated players are Marsel Efroimski, Anastasiya Rakhmangulova, Dina Belenkaya, Yuliya Shvayger and Evgeniya Doluhanova.

The Leon Masters is a 4-player knockout tournament, taking place from 7-9 July 2023 in Leon, Spain. Players receive 20 minutes for the entire game, plus a 10-second increment starting from move one. In case of a tie two blitz games (3+2) will be played, and if still tied an Armageddon game.

The 1000GM New York Summer GM A is a 10-player Round-robin tournament, held from the 6th to the 10th of July in New York City, United States of America. Time control is 90 minutes for the entire game with a 30-second increment starting from move one.