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4th International chess Bodensee-open is held from 5 to 13 May in Bregenz.
More then 130 players are expected. Top seeded are GM Momchil Nikolov, GM Roeland Pruijssers etc…

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48th International Chess Tournament „Bosna 2018“ is held from 5 to 11 May.
Organizer is Chess Club “Bosna” Sarajevo. Playing Venue is Hotel „SARAJ“, Sarajevo.
Rate of Play: 90 minutes per 40 moves, plus 30 minutes till end of game,with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one.

The Bamberg Open (Prof. Dr. Robert Pfleger Memorial) is a 7-round Swiss tournament taking place from 6-13 May 2018 in Bamberg, Germany. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 15 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one.

The 53rd edition of the Capablanca Memorial is taking place from May 9-19 in the Habana Libre Hotel in Havana, Cuba. The elite group of 6 players honouring the Cuban Chess World Champion José Raúl Capablanca in a double round-robin with new US Champion Sam Shankland the top seed.

Vietnam Individual Champioships 2018 were held from 27 April to 3. May in Ho Chi Minh .
Grandmaster Tran Tuan Minh, who scored 7 of 9, won the men’s championship . The same number of points ranked second place by Tran Quoc Dung. On the third place is Dao Thien Hai, who was behind by half a point.

Women’s World Championship Match 2018 between the Women`s World Champion Tan Zhongyi and the winner of FIDE Grand Prix Series Ju Wenjun will be organized from 2nd to 9th of May in Shanghai and the latter half from 11th to 20th May in Chongqing.

The 2018 Women’s World Chess Championship is an upcoming match between Tan Zhongyi, the 2017 Women’s World Chess champion, and her challenger Ju Wenjun.

2nd Open International d’Échecs de la Côte Basque Bayonne was held from 28 April to1 May.
102 players took part in the tournament.

GM Vidit Gujrathi, GM Alexander Morozevich, GM Nils Grandelius, GM Benjamin Gledura, GM Aryan Tari and IM Linus Johansson.

The Nakhchivan Open 2018, dedicated to the memory of former Azerbaijan President Heydar Aliyev, runs from May 1st to 11th at the Nakhchivan Chess Center in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, and is organized by the Azerbaijan Youth & Sport Ministry, the Azerbaijan