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The 22nd Annual Northeast Open will be held from August 5-7, 2016, at the Sheraton Stamford Hotel, 700 Main St, Stamford, Connecticut.

The event has 4 sections: Open, Under 2050, Under 1650 and Under 1250. Each section has either a 3-day schedule (August 5-7) or 2-day schedule (August 6-7) to participate in.

The tournament format is 5-rounds Swiss with the time control 40/100, SD/30, d10 (2-day option, rds 1-2 G/60, d10).

The event has a guaranteed prize fund of $8,500.

A special match between Alexander Morozevich (Russia) and Tiger Hillarp Persson (Sweden) took place during the European Go Congress, which gathered more than 1000 participants.

The famous Grandmasters played two games of rapid chess and two games of go on the 18th floor of Azimut Hotel in St. Petersburg.

The 2016 African Individual Chess Championships were held from 17-26th of July with the Classical, Rapid and Blitz formats. The venue was the TICK hotel in Kampala, Uganda.

In the classical event there were a total of 30 players from Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Somalia, Uganda and Zambia. The field consisted of 3 GM’s, 9 IM’s, 6 FM’s and 3 CM’s bring the total title count to 21.

2016 Sinquefield Cup Spotlights International Chess Competition in Saint Louis. Top World Talents Face-off at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis Aug. 5-16

The 2016 Susan Polgar Foundation Girls’ Invitational was held from 23-28th July at the SPICE Building at Luhr Library Building, Webster University in Saint Louis.

Over 600 photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/116302832360230031699/6311345900046843313

A wonderful tournament on the Italian Adriatic coast will take place from 30th July to 6th August.

The Summer Chess Festival ‘Mare di Fano’ will run for the fifth time, bringing together amateur and professional players.

In the middle of the summer, chess aficionados will have an opportunity to enjoy sea, delicious Italian food and competitive chess in the company of at least 10 invited GMs and IMs, hence a possibility to achieve norms.

The European Chess Union has issued agenda and annexes for the ECU General Assembly 2016 which will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan on Saturday 10th of September 2016.

Schachgesellschaft Riehen from Switzerland is the first club to have completed the registration for the 2016 European Chess Club Cup.

Schachgesellschaft Riehen lineup:
GM Heimann Andreas
GM Cvitan Ognjen
IM Georgiadis loannis
IM Brunner Nicolas
IM Buss Ralph
Schmidt-Schaeffer Sebastian
Erismann Peter – captain

Following the police investigations in Bulgaria, Montenegro, Croat