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The 25th Annual Chicago Open was held on May 26-30, 2016, at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel, 601 North Milwaukee Ave, Wheeling, Illinois.

The event had 8 sections: Open, Under 2300, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500, Under 1300 and Under 1000.

The strongest Open section with 126 participants was completed over 9 rounds of Swiss system in 5-days.

The 9th KiiT International Chess Festival 2016 took place from 23-30th May at the KiiT University in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

The tournament was organized by the All Odisha Chess Association and KiiT University, under the auspices of AICF.

Russian Grandmaster Boris Grachev stormed through the Elite Category to take the winner’s trophy with 8,5/10 points, leaving the nearest followers a full point behind. This section registered 201 participants. Full standings below.

The chess engine Nirvana is sole leader of Stage 1b of TCEC.

The 38th Nezhmetdinov Cup started with the rapid tournament that was held on 29-30th May at the Central Chess School in Kazan, Russia.

The tournament format was 9-round Swiss with the time control 15 min + 5 sec.

GM Gata Kamsky took a clear first place with 7,5 points in the field of 107 players.

On Tuesday Renault Russia company entered a partnership deal with the Russian Chess Federation. The papers were signed by Andrey Pankov, General Director of Renault Russia, and RCF President Andrey Filatov.

According to this deal, Renault Kaptur becomes the official car of RCF and will be granted to the winners of men’s and women’s Superfinals.

The 2016 Icelandic Chess Championship takes place from 31st May to 11th June at the Tónlistarskóli Seltjarnarness in Reykjavik.

Twelve players with the average elo 2403 compete in the round robin tournament.

Participants:

The 2016 ICCD World Individual Deaf Chess Championships (Men-Ladies-Juniors-Blind-Seniors-Open-Blitz) were held from 17-25th May in Yerevan, Armenia.

The 16th ICCD Championship for men saw 24 players play in a 9 round Swiss tournament. IMs Duilio Collutiis of Italy and Milan Orsag of the Czech Republic finished with 6.5/9 points, but Collutiis won the title on tiebreak. The Open section saw 2 GMs, 3 IMs and 2 FMs out of the 24 players.

The Irish teams for the upcoming Chess Olympiad in Baku have been finalised.

The Men’s (Open) team is as follows:
Alexander Baburin, Mark Heidenfeld, Stephen Jessel, Conor O’Donnell and Colm Daly.

WIM Yuliya Shvayger (ISR 2415) took the sole lead at the European Individual Women’s Chess Championship 2016 after defeating WGM Zeinab Mamedjarova (AZE 2236) in the 4th round.

The Israeli player is definitely a surprise of the tournament, starting as the 15th seed and emerging as leader with the rating performance of amazing 3091 points!

The 2016 Kadyrov Memorial rapid chess tournament was held on 28-29th May at the Olympic Sports Hall in Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia.

130 players competed in the 11-round Swiss event with the time control 15 min + 10 sec. Grandmaster Adam Tukhaev from Ukraine took a clear first place with 9 points. Full standings below.

The tournament was organzied by the Russian Chess Federation, Chechen Republic Sports Ministry and Chess Federation of the North Caucasian Federal District.