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Stockfish, the open source engine by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Gary Linscott, et al. , has surged ahead in the standings of the Top Chess Engine Championship.

Chess Unleashed is the new website from Grandmaster Valentin Iotov, dedicated to sharing his experience with different levels of amateur and semi-professional players.

The FIDE World Junior Chess Championships 2016 (for boys & girls under 20) will be held at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, INDIA from 7th August (arrival) to 22nd August (departure) 2016.

The Championship will be organized and conducted by All Odisha Chess Association at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India under the auspices of AICF and FIDE.

The tournament will be played according to the Swiss System in 13 rounds.

Obiettivo Risarcimento Padova from Italy has completed the registration for 2016 European Chess Club Cup.

The 23rd International Chess Festival “Liepajas Rokade 2016″ was held from 4-7th August at the Hotel Fontaine Royal in Liepaja, Latvia.

The Festival consisted of Open Rapid, Blitz, Team and Super Rapid tournaments.

The 9th Arad International Chess Festival is taking place from 6-12th August in Continental Hotel in Arad, Romania.

The Festival consists of Railway Bank – Astra Open with 247 participants, U10 Open, U8 Open and a number of side events: FIDE rated Blitz tournament, Fischer Random tournament, bughouse and blitz pairs tournaments, tennis-table tournament.

The Festival is organized by IO Alin Campeanu & ACS Sah Club Vados. The total prize fund is 9000 EUR.