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The All India Chess Federation (AICF) will organize the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad in Ahmedabad, India from 10th December (Arrival) to 20th December (Departure) 2017 conducted under the auspices of Federation Internationale Des Echecs (FIDE).

The European Chess Union (ECU), the Education Committee of ECU (EC), and the International School Chess Union (ISCU) have the honour of inviting all National Chess Federations of the ECU to the First ECU School Team Internet Championships 2017 from November 16 to November 23, 2017.

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The Allegiance to Zayed Chess Tournament 2017 was held from 28th May to 1st June at the Dubai Chess & Culture Club, UAE.

The 9-round Swiss event with the rapid time control 15 min + 5 sec attracted 128 participants from 25 federations.

Grandmasters Bassem Amin from Egypt and Viorel Iordachescu from Moldova shared the first place with 8,0 points each. Amin took the winner’s trophy on better tie-break.

From 23 to 27 May 2017 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Moscow, Russia, by the Russian State Social University and the Russian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The lecturer was IA Artiom Akhmetov (RUS), FIDE Lecturer.

Five (5) National Arbiters from Russia and Kazakhstan participated in the Seminar and all of them participated in the examination test held after the lectures.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 2 to 4 August 2017 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, by the US Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The 26th Annual Chicago Open was held on May 25-29, 2017, at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel, 601 North Milwaukee Ave, Wheeling, Illinois.

The event had 8 sections: Open, Under 2300, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500, Under 1300 and Under 1000.

The strongest Open section with 119 participants was completed over 9 rounds of Swiss system in 5-days.

The legendary Italian chess player IM Stefano Tatai passed away on 30th May in Tenerife, Spain.

Born in 1938, he became the National Master in 1958 and earned the prestigious title of International Master in 1966.

Tatai was 12-times Italian chess champion, which is a national record: 1962 in Forte dei Marmi, 1965 in Florence, 1967 in Savona, 1970 in Sottomarina di Chioggia, 1974 and 1977 in Castelvecchio Pascoli, 1979 in Venice, 1983 in Arco, 1985, 1990 and 1991 in Chianciano Terme, and 1994 in Reggio Emilia.

On June 1, 2017, the 48th final tournament of the traditional all-Russian scholastic chess team event Belaya Ladya (also known as White Rook) will start in Dagomys, Sochi.

Since 2015, Belaya Ladya welcomes teams from foreign countries. This year, almost 100 teams from 80 regions of Russia and 17 countries of the world will take part in the final event.

The International chess festival “Rashid Nezhmetdinov Cup” started with a rapid tournament that was held from 29-30th May at the Central Chess School in Kazan.

GM Alexander Morozevich and IM Zhamsaran Tsydypov shared the first place with 8,5/11 points each. Morozevich claimed the winner’s trophy on better tie-break.

The tournament format was 11-round FIDE rated Swiss with the time control 15 min + 10 sec.
139 players competed in the event, including 19 Grandmasters and 17 International Masters. The total prize fund was 7800 EUR.

The European Individual Chess Championship 2017 will take place in Minsk, Belarus, from 29th May to 11th June 2017, in the Sports Palace, which will be the official venue of the Championship.

The event is organized by the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus, the Ministry of Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk City Executive Committee and Belarus Chess Federation under the auspices of the ECU.