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The Argentinian Youth Championships 2023 is taking place from 17-21 February 2023 in San Luis, Argentina. It is an 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Joaquin Llanos, Juan Martin Ibarra, Valentin Aguilar Samper, Juan Ignacio Ruiz, Giuliana Bosco, Nehuen Alexis Minvielle, Mathias Rodriguez, Sofia Brito, Anna Laura Scarsi, Luciano Ariel Carrizo, Ilan Schnaider, Ernestina Adam, etc.

The U18 – Galician Youth Championship 2023 is taking place from 18-21 February 2023 in Padrón, Spain. Players receive 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is an 8-round Swiss tournament with participation of Breixo Longueira Alonso, Pablo Lopez Varela, Xulio Del Prado Rodriguez, Alejandro Cereijo Suarez, Ruben Fernandez Lopez, Sergio Perez Estevez, David Cernadas Camean, Marta Quintas Fernandez, Xabier Perez Sousa, Rodrigo Arias Perez, etc.

The U14 – Galician Youth Championship 2023 is taking place from 18-21 February 2023 in Padrón, Spain. Players receive 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is an 8-round Swiss tournament with participation of Javier del Valle Crespo, Iago Fernandez Ramos, Sergio Diniz Lopez, Uxio Vilarino Lorenzo, Cesar Oubina Pazos, Noel Casares Pedride, Marcos Iglesias Flores, Hugo Souto Corredoura, Clara Mendez Rial, etc.

It smelled like a draw shortly after move 30, when a symmetrical rook ending had developed between Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Praggnanandhaa. More in jest, almost giggling, Yasser Seirawan and Anastasia Karlovych listed the academic advantages of the white position on the livestream: a little more space, a slightly more active king, a slightly more active rook. They didn’t say it, but let it slip that they expected a peace deal at any moment now.

The Cambridge International Open 2023 took place from 15-19 February 2023 in Cambridge, England. The event was played as a 9-round Swiss tournament with more than 120 entries and the prize fund of 4.200£.

The International Solving Contest (ISC), traditionally held on the last Sunday of January, has marked the beginning of solving seasons for almost two decades. It’s a hybrid competition, with the same groups of chess problems and endgames distributed around the world to be solved at the same time. This year, it attracted 601 solvers from 28 countries in 38 different locations. Each location had a local controller responsible for the integrity of competition and communication with the Central controller Axel Steinbrink.

The WR Chess Masters super-tournament will take place from 16-25 February in Dusseldorf, Germany. The event is played as a 10-player round-robin with Ian Nepomniachtchi, Anish Giri, Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Gukesh D, Vincent Keymer, Praggnanandhaa and Andrey Esipenko in the field.

With a strategic masterpiece Levon Aronian has taken the lead in the WR Chess Masters. Aronian gave Nodirbek Abdusattorov’s Sicilian Dragon no opportunity to breathe fire. Already at the end of the opening the US-Armenian with the white pieces had transferred the game into an endgame without prospects for Black.

The Chessemy Open 2023 will be held from 3rd-12th March at Hotel Forellenhof Walsrode. The event will be played in two rating groups: A Open (for players rated 1800+) and B Open (for players rated U1900). Both tournaments will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves, plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with increment of 30 seconds per each move.

The WR Chess Masters super-tournament will take place from 16-25 February in Dusseldorf, Germany. The event is played as a 10-player round-robin with Ian Nepomniachtchi, Anish Giri, Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Gukesh D, Vincent Keymer, Praggnanandhaa and Andrey Esipenko in the field.