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The 17th European Women’s Individual Chess Championship takes place from 26th May to 8th June at the complex Comandor-Amiral in Mamaia, Romania.

The Championship is organized by the Romanian Chess Federation, “Mind Games & Events” Sports Association, under the auspices of European Chess Union.

A rapid tournament dedicated to the memory of GM Igor Kurnosov was held from 26-28th May at the congress hall of the World Trade Center in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

On June 1, the International Children’s Day, Dagomys will host another final of White Castle, a team chess tournament for schools.

GM Timur Gareyev, USA, aka. Blindfold king will try to set a new world record in Blindfold chess in December. He will meet 47 players blindfolded in Prag.

As a training session he is on world tour. Recently he completed a 10 players blindfold simul in Stockholm, Sweden, against strong opposition including GM Pia Cramling’s daughter Anna Cramling. Replay the games here

The 11th American Continental Chess Championship is taking place from 28th May to 5th June, 2016, at the CIFCO in San Salvador, El Salvador.

The tournament format is 11-round Swiss and top four finishers will qualify for the 2017 FIDE World Cup. Top prizes are USD 5000/3400/2400/1700/1200/900 etc

The preliminary list has 79 players from 16 federations, including 14 Grandmasters and 12 International Masters.

Representatives of the UK newspaper The Telegraph have confirmed that President of the Russian Chess Federation and Vice-President of FIDE Andrey Filatov is not associated with Telecom Ltd Express, a company mentioned in the article Chess Drawn in the Panama Papers Scandal, and apologized for the error.

The Drancy Chess Club organizes the 2016 edition of the Top 12 French Team Chess Championship. The tournament is going to take place 27 May – 7 June at a magnificent place: a castle in the middle of a park, downtown Drancy.

All games will be live with computer analysis daily on Chessdom.com. Round 1 starts May 28th at 15:00 CET. Scroll down for live commentary by GM Yannick Gozzoli, GM Manuel Apizella, and GM Adrien Demuth.

The 35th Zalakaros Chess Festival is taking place from 27th May to 4th June, 2016, in Zalakaros, a town in Hungary, famous for its thermal bath.

The event is organized by the Hungarian Chess Federation and Zalakaros City Council, under the patronage of Mr. Tamás Seszták, President of the Hungarian Chess Federation, and Mr. Ferenc Novák, Mayor of Zalakaros.

TrustNordisk has struck multiple Cannes deals for the Norwegian documentary about chess world champion Magnus Carlsen.

Arrow Films has picked up UK and Ireland rights for Benjamin Ree’s Norwegian documentary Magnus.

The deal was struck in Cannes with Scandinavian sales agent TrustNordisk, who also closed a deal with Pretty Pictures for France.

The preliminary Stage 1b of the strongest computer chess championship in history TCEC started this May 26th. A total of 16 engines will fight for 8 qualification spots, to determine who will join the winners of Stage 1a.