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A FIDE Seminar for International Organizers was held from 3-5th September at the“ Crystal Hall” in Baku during the 42nd Chess Olympiad.

The objective of the Seminar was to educate and certify Organizers on an international basis. Topics in the seminar covered the latest regulations of Events Commission (Mission, Members, Events Regulations, Bid Procedure, Ratings and Titles and Events’ Management).

The United States of America have won their first Olympic gold medals since 1976 after a grueling and exciting last round. Despite clearly outrating opponents and neighbors Canada, they could only manage a 2.5-1.5 win.

This gave rivals Ukraine a chance to overtake them on tie-breaks; they did put in a spirited performance, culminating in a 3.5-0.5 win against Slovenia, but it turned out not to be enough.

Chess Federation of Serbia and Novi Sad Chess Union are organizing the 2016 Serbian Open Chess Championship from 6-13th November in Novi Sad, Serbia.

The Championship is supported by the Novi Sad Department for Sport and Youth and the playing venue is SPENS small hall.

SPENS takes a special place in the chess history as venue of 1990 Chess Olympiad and 2009 European Team Chess Championship.

The FIDE Ethics Commission during its meetings held in Baku on 6-8th September unanimously decided to suspend the former ECU President Silvio Danailov, former ECU General Secretary Sava Stoisavljevic and former ECU Executive Director Vladimir Sakotic.

TCEC Rapid is scheduled to start this September after Stage 3 of the Top Chess Engine Championship. It will be a 32 engines double round robin with a total of 992 games. The time control is 25 min + 10 sec.

In the Women section the world champion Hou Yifan made a debut in this Olympiad and won her game, but this was not sufficient for the top seeded China to beat Vietnam. Thi Mai Hung Nguyen leveled the score by defeating Zhao Xue – all highlights here.

Video by Vijay Kumar

The long anticipated 42nd World Chess Olympiad began today at the beautiful Baku Chrystal Hall with the games of the first round.

A record breaking 180 teams compete in the Open Section, while the Women Section has 140 teams participating.

Video by Vijay Kumar

The 42nd Chess Olympiad was opened with a solemn but highly entertaining ceremony, held at the Baku National Gymnastics Arena, attended by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, the President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and other delegates, world chess champions as well as various state and government officials.

Players, captains and delegates of the 176 participating federations filled the National Gymnastics Arena to enjoy a wonderful evening.

The Chess Olympiad 2016 will take place 1-22 September in Baku, Azerbaijan.