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The 3rd Gideon Japhet Memorial ACP Open is taking place from 10-15 July in Jerusalem, Israel. Top seeded players include GM Naiditsch, GM Nabaty, GM Bortnyk, GM Antipov, GM Huzman, etc.

will be live daily on Chessdom.com and ChessArena.com at 16:00 CET with computer analysis by the TCEC participants Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini.

The 2016 European Youth U18 Team Chess Championship is taking place in Hotel Celeia in Celje, Slovenia from 10-16 July. Live games will be daily on Chessdom.com and ChessArena.com with computer analysis by the TCEC participants Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini, in cooperation with the European Chess Union

European Youth Team Chess Championship Boys U18

The 16th International Chess Festival in honor of Miguel Najdorf is taking place in the Warsaw from 8-16 July, 2016. Games start daily at 17:00 CET and will be live with triple engine analysis by ChessArena.com

The tournament format in the Open A-B-C is Swiss system in 9 rounds with time control 90 min. for 40 moves + 30 min. for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.

The 2016 Norwegian Chess Championship takes place in Tromsø from July 9-16. The Elite group boasts 22 players of rating 2350+. Games start daily at 16:00 CET.

The 116th edition of the Swiss Chess Championship takes place 7-15 July in the Walhaus Arena in Flims.

Games from the 116th Swiss Chess Championship will be live daily on Chessdom.com and ChessArena.com at 13:00 CET with computer analysis by the TCEC participants Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini.

The 2016 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting takes place from July 9-17 in Dortmund, Germany. It is eight player round robin with Vladimir Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Leinier Dominguez Perez, Ruslan Panomariov, Evgeniy Najer, Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu, and Rainer Buhmann.

Dortmund Chess 2016 will be live daily on Chessdom.com and ChessArena.com at 16:00 CET with computer analysis by the TCEC participants Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini.

The Dutch Qualifier is a double round robin with: Friso Nijboer (2541), Sipke Ernst (2540), David Klein (2517), Twan Burg (2501). It takes place parallel to the Amsterdam Science Park Chess Tournament. Only the first place qualifies for the Dutch Championships – which takes place from August 22 to 28. The time control is 45 minutes + 10 seconds/move. Starting times: 11:30, 14:00 and 16:30 CET on both July 9 and July 10.

The Amsterdam Science Park Tournament takes place from Saturday July 9 to Sunday July 17. It is a 9-round open with time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes for the rest of the game; with an increment of 30 seconds per move from the start.

Top seeded players include GM Evgeny Alekseev, GM Vitaly Kunin, GM Erik Van den Doel, GM Stanislav Novikov, GM Alexey Kim, IM Li Riemersma, GM Harmen Jonkman, etc.

A friendly match between European champion 2016 Ernesto Inarkiev and World Vice-Champion 2012 Boris Gelfand will take place on June 12-22 in Magas, the capital of Ingushetia Republic.

During the European Go Congress a special match between famous Grandmasters Alexander Morozevich (Russia) and Tiger Hillarp Persson (Sweden) will take place.