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The World Chess Olympiad in Baku concluded last week and Sport-Express published a big interview with RCF President Andrey Filatov.

Debuts Three New Exhibitions Spanning Nearly Five Centuries of Chess & Art

Exhibits Open Thursday, September 29 and Feature Chess Sets from the Dr. George & Vivian Dean Collection, Highlights from the Permanent Collection and Loans from Prominent Institutions and Lenders​​

SAINT LOUIS (Sept. 16, 2016) — This month, the World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF) in Saint Louis celebrates its five year anniversary. The organization opened its doors in Saint Louis in 2011 and has since welcomed nearly 60,000 visitors from around the world.

The Indian GM Krishnan Sasikiran (2658) has a special feeling for Stockholm, Sweden’s capital. He played in Hasselbacken Chess Open in May. Now he returns for Rilton Cup 2016/2017.

The 46th Rilton Cup will be held from 27th December 2016 to 5th January 2017 at Clarion Hotel Stockholm, Ringvägen 98, Stockholm, Sweden.

Top prize in the 9-round open event is 20,000 SEK.

From 23 to 26 August 2016 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Prague, Czech Republic, by the Chess Federation of Czech Republic and under the auspices of FIDE.

The lecturer was IA Alex McFarlane (SCO), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant lecturers were IA Jirina Prokopova (CZE) and IA Petr Zaruba (CZE).

The venue of the Seminar was the Top Hotel, in Prague. The lectures of the Seminar were in English language.

Women’s World Champion Hou Yifan and European Champion Ernesto Inarkiev will play a match on 17th September in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, capital of Kamchatka Krai on Russian Far East.

The Reykjavik Open 2017 will be held for the 32nd time from April 19th till April 27th, 2017, in Harpa, the 28.000 sqm. concert hall, in Reykjavik, Iceland. The 2017 tournament is expected to be very strong.

The total prize-fund in the 2017 edition will be €15.000, including many special prizes for various age – and rating categories, in addition to the traditional top women’s prize.

The top prizes are EUR 5000/2000/1250/800/600 etc

The famous Leonardo da Vinci was a chess player? Italian architect Franco Rocco claims ‘yes’ and to verify it an interesting exhibition is going on until 30th September in Milan, Italy (91 Monte Rosa Street, PwC Space).

by Adolivio Capece

The exhibition is carried out by Rocco, who made in-depth studies on the matter and wrote an interesting book “Leonardo e Luca Pacioli. L’evidenza” (edited for the moment only in Italian by Le Due Torri, www.chess.it).

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 5 to 9 December 2016 in Tangier, Morocco, by the Moroccan Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The 10th Mikhail Tal Memorial will be played in the Museum of Russian Impressionism (Moscow), one of the leading private museums in Russia, from 25th September to 6th October.

Avtodor Group of Companies will be a co-organizer of the 10th Tal Memorial together with the Russian Chess Federation. The total prize fund is 200,000 USD.

At the General Assembly held on 10th September in Baku, Azerbaijan, the European Chess Union voted with overwhelming majority to suspend the membership of the Bulgarian Chess Federation.

The ECU Board motion against the Bulgarian Chess Federation membership was backed by 37 votes from 51 federations in attendance. 11 votes were against, 2 abstained (with blank ballots) and 1 was invalid.