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The 44th Annual World Open was held from June 30-July 4, 2016 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 1201 Market St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

The event had 9 sections: Open, Under 2200, Under 2000, Under 1800, Under 1600, Under 1400, Under 1200, Under 900 and Unrated.

The main Open section had 220 participants. After 9 rounds of Swiss seven players shared the first place with 7,0 points each.

The Israeli player Evgeny Postny, 35 years of age, is the first 2600+ player to sign up for Rilton Cup 2016/2017 which will be played between December 27th and January 5th.

GM Evgeny Postny has 2632 in ELO and will surely be among the favorites to win the trophy.

By Ingemar Falk

It’s more than ten years since you last played in Rilton Cup. What do you remember from that tournament?

The FIDE Arbiters’ Commission has the pleasure to announce the nominees of the 2016 Arbiters’ Awards.

Live games from the Irish Chess Championship 2016 will be daily on Chessdom.com and ChessArena.com with computer analysis by the TCEC participants Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini.

The 1st Chess Stars Cup takes place in Anzali Free Zone, Iran from 9th to 21st of June. The event is a 10-round match (in Scheveningen system) between 2 teams consisting of 10 players each.

More than 125 participants have already signed up for the 2016 edition of the beautiful Ikaros Chess 2016. The scenery island has one more time attracted both chess tourists and strong players.

The Polugaevsky Memorial 2016 is taking place in Samara 2-12 July.

Live games will be daily on Chessdom.com and ChessArena.com with computer analysis by the TCEC participants Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini.

From 22 to 27 June 2016 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Silver Lake, Serbia, by the Serbian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The Lecturer of the seminar was IA Viron Tsorbatzoglou (GRE), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturers were IA Branislav Suhartovic (SRB) and IA Zoran Bojovic (SRB).

The venue of the Seminar was the Danubia Park Garni Hotel in Silver Lake, Serbia.

The lectures were given in English language, with translation into Serbian language.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 3 to 9 September 2016, during the 42nd World Chess Olympiad, in Baku, Azerbaijan, by the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission, in cooperation with the Azerbaijan Chess Federation and u