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Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras & Minister of Sports Aristides Baltas received the World U18 Girls Champion Stavroula Tsolakidou and congratulated her on the third world title (U14, U16 and U18).

The representatives of the Greek Chess Federation also attended the meeting.

“A lake full of ketchup” – By Mehul Gohil a.k.a Gorilla

Before this one, there had been no other chess movie I had seen that properly depicted the sport. Pawn Sacrifice, a take on the Fischer-Spassky match was horrible. Searching for Bobby Fischer was ok but nothing special. The old Luzhin Defence was bizzare…that’s not what chess is like.

The 4th round of the Russian Superfinal was played on October 19 in Novosibirsk.

The 3rd round of the Russian Superfinal was played on October 18 in Novosibirsk.

All games of the men’s championship ended in draws.

A relatively quiet game was played between Alexander Riazantsev and Nikita Vitiugov. They went for the Sicilian Defense, which after mass exchanges transposed to a queen and bishop ending. The game ended peacefully by perpetual.

Evgeny Tomashevsky and Peter Svidler played a similarly quiet positional game. They started to repeat moves in an endgame with opposite-colored bishops.

The fourth edition of the Pro-Biz Cup will once again give you the opportunity to team up with one of your chess heroes. On Thursday 8 December the Pro-Biz Cup will take place at the prestigious locale of the Royal Automobile Club in London, from 10am to 3.30pm.

The second round of the Russian Superfinal was played on October 17 in Novosibirsk.

Dmitry Jakovenko suffered a disappointing loss in the men’s championship. Having White against Aleksey Goganov, he obtained a significant advantage out of the opening and developed it methodically. However, prior to the first control Jakovenko missed the strongest continuation, wrongly offering to trade a couple of rooks, which made position more balanced. On the move 58 Jakovenko committed a suicidal blunder, missing a tactical blow, and had to resign in a couple of moves.

The first round of the Russian Superfinals was played on October 16 in Novosibirsk.

Sergey Akhapov, Head of the Physical Culture and Sports Department of Novosibirsk Region, Honored master of sports in underwater swimming, made a ceremonial first move in Svidler-Inarkiev.

The 2016 European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship will be held in Tallinn, Estonia, from December 14-18, 2016.

The 2016 Magistral d’Escacs Ciutat de Barcelona is organized by the Catalonia Chess Federation from 22-28th October in Barcelona, Spain.

The 8-player round robin tournament of 14th category is sponsored by the Barcelona City Hall.

The Organizing Committee of the 2016 World Schools Championship (December 2-12, Grand Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Sochi, Russia) extends the deadline for submitting registration forms to October 20.