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The Russian Higher League 2017 is taking place 1-10 May in Sochi, Russia. Scroll down for the full team composition.

The 2017 Russian Women Team Chess Championship aka Russian Premier League is taking place 1-10 May in Sochi, Russia. It will be a race between nine teams with top players such as Alexandra Kosteniuk, Valentina Gunina, Anna Ushenina, Olga Giriya, Alina Kashlinskaya, etc. See the full team composition below.

Azeri star Shakhriyar Mamedyarov repeated the last year’s success and took another trophy at the Vugar Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir.

The ten-player round robin event was held from 20-30th April in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. In the final round Vladimir Kramnik defeated Pavel Eljanov, while the remaining games were drawn.

The #1 seed Anish Giri lived up to the expectation and emerged clear winner of the 2017 GAMMA Reykjavik Open.

It wasn’t easy with two rounds to go when Anish was half a point behind the leaders and had two blacks coming up. He however showed his class beyond doubt and managed to take the lead with half a point before the last round with two consecutive wins. A win in the last round against his countryman Erwin l’Ami secured the win and the top spot.

The Russian Team Chess Championship 2017 aka Premier League is going to take place 1-10 May, 2017, in Sochi, Russia. It will consist of eight teams. Top seeded are the team of Sibir with Vladimir Kramnik, Anish Giri, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alexander Grischuk, Dmitry Andreikin, Anton Korobov, and Denis Khismatullin.

From 20 to 25 April 2017 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Kremenchuk, Poltava Region, Ukraine, by the Ukrainian Chess Federation, under auspices of FIDE.

The lecturer was IA Oleg Tovchyga (UKR), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer was IA Yuriy Gnyp (UKR).

The lectures were in Russian language.

15 National Arbiters from Ukraine and Moldova participated in the Seminar.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 23 to 27 May 2017 in Moscow, Russia, by the Moscow Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Russian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

World Senior Team Championship 2017 Category 50+ and World Senior Team Championship 2017 Category 65+ are taking place from 24th April to 2nd May at the wonderful Creta Maris Resort in Hersonissos, Greece.

Entitled to participate in the category 50+ are players who were born in the year 1967 or earlier.
Entitled to participate in the category 65+ are players who were born in the year 1952 or earlier.

Both championships will be completed over 9 rounds of Swiss system and each section has 22 teams competing. The total prize fund is 10,000 EUR.

Georgian Grandmaster Nana Dzagnidze is the winner of the 18th European Individual Women’s Chess Championship, which was held from 11-22nd April at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Riga, Latvia.

In the final decisive round Dzagnidze drew with Russian Natalija Pogonina, and emerged clear winner with 8,5/11 points.

The All India Chess Federation on behalf of FIDE and Commonwealth Chess Association cordially invite your Federation to participate in the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017 to be held at Hotel Park Plaza, Shahdara, New Delhi, India from 2nd-10