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Vladivostok in Russian Far East is currently holding a series of summer chess events. The festival opened with Tikhookeanskiy Meridian, 11-round Swiss rapid tournament with the time control 15 min + 10 sec.

UAE’s Candidate Masters Sultan Al Zaabi and Omran Al Hosani drop to joint second place in Dubai Juniors Chess Tournament 

Top 10 standings after round 4

1 Rahul Srivatshav P IND 2273 4
2 FM Mohammad Fahad Rahman BAN 2157 4
3 FM Matviishen Viktor UKR 2390 4
4 CM Ahmadzada Ahmad AZE 2099 4
5 Umbetov Kazybek KAZ 2002 4
6 Kocharyan Hayk ARM 1573 4
7 Aryan Ranjan IND 1836 4

NR Klub delegated by the Slovak Chess Federation organizes the 2016 World Chess Olympiad (Youth U16) in Poprad, Slovakia from July 21st to July 30. The tournament is a 9 round Swiss system with Chess Olympiad rules and regulations. Each match between teams will be conducted over 4 boards.

World champion Magnus Carlsen has secured the winner’s trophy in 9th Bilbao Grand Slam Masters Final with one round to go. Carlsen has 16 points from 9 games (football scoring), five points ahead of the nearest follower Hikaru Nakamura. This will be Carlsen’s third “Txapela” from Bilbao.

Four Emiratis, 9 others lead in Maktoum Bin Hamdan Cup International Junior Chess Tournament

Candidate Masters Sultan Al Zaabi and Omran Al Hosani continue to show fine form in 110-player Dubai Juniors Chess Tournament

Top 14 standings after round 3

The 49th International Chess Festival Biel must unfortunately be postponed by a week. It will now take place from Saturday, July 23 until Wednesday, August 3 2016. The dates planned previously overlap with the Tour de France passing through Bern, thus occupying most of the hotels in the region for several days. The Master Open (MTO) will be played over 9 rounds this year.

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Poikovsky chess 2016 aka Poikovsky – Anatoly Karpov tournament is going to take place July 23 – August 2 in Russia. It will be a single round robin with the participation of GM Dmitry Andreikin, GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek, GM Dmirty Jakovenko, GM Maxim Matlakov, GM Igor Kovalenko, GM Alexander Motylev, GM Ilya Smirin, GM Anton Korobov, GM Viorel Bologan, and GM Emil Sutovsky.

Greek Grandmaster and champion Vasilios Kotronias is the winner of the Aegean Open Championship “Ikaros 2016”. Kotronias collected 7,5 points in 9 games.

The 9th International Open Tournament of Paleochora is taking place from 20-27th July 2016, in Paleochora town, Crete.

The tournament is organized by the Municipality of Kantanos-Selino, Chania Chess Academy, Region of Chania and Greek Chess Federation.

The tournament format is 9-round Swiss and the playing venue is Paleochora Community Centre.

The total prize fund is 7000 EUR with 1800 reserved for the champion.