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The European Rapid and blitz championship will have 581 participants, including top names as Radjabov, Wojtaszek, Zhigalko, Andreikin, Onishchuk, Ponomariov, Kovalenko, Inarkiev, Malakhov, Navara, Leko, Dreev, Vitiugov, Movsesian, etc. Full participants list here

Live games will be daily on Chessdom.com and ChessArena.com with computer analysis by the TCEC engines Stockfish, Houdini, and Komodo.

Everything is set for the European Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships 2016, which start tomorrow in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.The Championships will be the main event of the Paul Keres 100 Festival, dedicated to the 100th birth anniversary of Paul Keres, Estonian Sportsman of the 20th century and often referred as “The Eternal Second” i

The World Schools Individual Championship was held from December 2 till December 12 in Sochi. More than 400 young chess players from 30 countries took part in the event, for the first time ever hosted in Russia.

In the spring of 2016, the Presidential Board of FIDE unanimously supported the bid made by Russian Chess Federation. The opportunity to organize one of the key children events of the FIDE calendar was contested by a number of other countries, including Turkey, China, and India.

A traditional Christmas event – Nutcracker Generation Tournament – will be held on December 16-23 in the Central Chess Club in Moscow. There will be two Scheveningen matches: Kings vs. Princes and Queens vs. Princesses.

From 2 to 6 November 2016 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Khartoum, Sudan, by the Sudan Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Arab Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The lecturer was IA Hassan Khaled (EGY), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer was FA Omer Musa (SUD).

The lectures were in Arabic language.

Twenty three (23) people from Sudan and Iraq participated in the Seminar.

From 6 to 10 December 2016 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Sochi, Russia, by the Russian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The Seminar was organized during the 2016 World Schools Chess Championships.

The lecturer was IA Alexander Tkachev (RUS), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant lecturers were IA Alexander Ivanov (RUS).