The 2018 Romanian Championship is a 9-round Swiss tournament taking place from 14-22 May in Băile Olănești. 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.
Initially we called it the Glen Stark affair, but after the most recent findings this has to be promoted to #KirsanGate. It took some time and lots of effort of our investigative journalists, but now we are confident that the pieces of the #KirsanGate scandal are coming together. A huge scandal of FIDE’s President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov himself and of his struggling efforts for a re-election bid on October 3rd during the Chess Olympiad in Batumi.
African Individual Chess Championships will be held in Lusaka, Zambia from 12 to 22 May.
Organizers are the African Chess Confederation and the Chess Federation of Zambia. The venue is Warm Harbor Hotel.
The Nakhchivan Open 2018, dedicated to the memory of former Azerbaijan President Heydar Aliyev, was held from May 1st to 11th at the Nakhchivan Chess Center in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. 58 players took part in the group A tournament.
