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Sharjah, Moscow, Geneva and Palma De Mallorca in Spain will host the four revamped World Chess Grand Prix events in 2017.

The new-look Grand Prix series will be contested by 24 players, rather than 12 as had previously been the case, with 18 players in each tournament.

The dates are as follows:
Sharjah, UAE: February 17-28
Moscow, Russia: May 11–22
Geneva, Switzerland: July 5-16
Palma De Mallorca, Spain: November 15-26

London Chess 2016 starts with the participation of Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Veselin TOpalov, Vladimir Kramnik, Michael Adams, Viswanathan Anand, Anish Giri, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.

Already in round 1 when Hikaru Nakamura takes on Sinquefield Cup winner Wesley So with the white pieces. Nakamura is the only player who can still catch So in the overall Grand Chess Tour standings, which awards the winner $100,000 and $50,000 for the runner-up. Find the full schedule below.

The 2016 London Chess Classic starts on Friday, 9th December at Olympia Conference Centre in London, England.

The event features all the world’s Top 10 players, except the World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin.

Hainan International Chess Open 2016 is taking place 7-16 December in Danzhou. Top participants include Yu Yangui, Richard Rapport, Zhou Jianchao, Lu Shanglei, Rinat Jumbayev, Wen Yang, Chanda Sandipan, Jan Werle, Zong-Yuan Zhao, etc.

Live games with analysis daily on Chessdom.com and ChessArena.com

The Ukrainian Men’s Chess Championship 2016 is taking place from December 6-17, in Rivne. The event is a round-robin tournament in 11 rounds. The tempo of play is 90′/40 + 30′ + 30″.

Participants: GM Anton Korobov (2692), GM Alexander Areshchenko (2678), GM Alexander Moiseenko (2657), GM Yuriy Kuzubov (2651), GM Zahar Efimenko (2651), GM Andrei Volokitin (2649), GM Martyn Kravtsiv (2645), GM Mikhailo Oleksienko (2615), GM Alexander Kovchan (2585), IM Evgeny Shtembuliak (2478), Vladislav Bakhmatsky (2446), Alexey Solovchuk (2409),

The 2017 World Amateur Chess Championships for men and women with a FIDE rating under 2300 will be held from 1-9th April in the Rocca Albornoziana in Spoleto, Italy.

There will be separate championships for categories Under-2300, Under-2000 and Under-1700. In each rating section, a separate championship for women shall be organized only if there are at least 10 women entries from at least 2 continents. Otherwise the women’s event will be merged with men (open).

The Tunisian Secretary of State for Sport welcomed African Chess Confederation President Lewis Ncube who is on a working visit to the country on the occasion of the conclusion of the African Junior Championship that took place from November 25 to December 4, 2016 in Hammamet.

The meeting was attended by the Director General for Sports, Tunisian Chess Federation officials and a number of University officers dedicated to the development of the sport of chess in Tunisia.

World Championship challenger Sergey Karjakin took a ceremonial kick-off in the football match of his favourite Spartak Moscow and Rubin Kazan on the Otkrytie Arena.

Rubin was in the lead but Spartak turned the score and won by 2-1.

Stockfish, the open source chess engine by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, and Gary Linscott, is the winner of the 2016 edition of the

The Rome City Chess Open 2016 is taking place from 4-10 December in Rome, Italy. Live games with analysis will be daily on Chessdom.com with the top three TCEC engines Stockfish, Komodo and Houdini

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