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The 89th German Championship is a 9-round Swiss tournament taking place from 3-11 August 2018 in Dresden.

The Copel Telecom Open is a 9-round Swiss tournament taking place from 1-5 August 2018 in Caiobá, Brazil.

The 2nd Irena Warakomska Memorial is a 9-round Swiss open taking place in Velvet Hotel, Suwałki, Poland from 1-8 August 2018.

ECU Press Release 31.07.2018

A Brief history of the case:

The breaking news about the Neural Network Deus X, accompanied by a video interview on Chessdom went like a shock wave through the computer chess world. It created a lot of excitement, but also left the audience as well as the competitors in TCEC with questions unanswered. After a turbulent day of email exchanges, the authors of the two NNs cleared the situation. Here are the official statements by the two teams.

From 1 to 11 August in Yekaterinburg, under the patronage of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region EV Kuyvashev, the most large-scale chess event of the Ural region of 2018 – the Eurasia Open Festival

In December 2017 Google subsidiary DeepMind shocked the chess world when it announced that its neural network AlphaZero had soundly defeated the then-champion Stockfish 8 in internal tests.

The Alwan Fannia Chess Association of Chefchaouen organizes the 17th Edition of Chefchaouen International Chess Festival from 23 to 29 July 2018 at Complex Mohamed 6 in Chefchaouen.
279 players took part in the tournament!

The Sitges Open is a 9-round Swiss tournament taking place from 22-29 July 2018 in Sitges, Spain.
In group A 105 players took part in the tournament.