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The 25th Annual Eastern Class Championships were held from April 22-24, 2016, at the Host Hotel at Cedar Lake, 366 Main St, Sturbridge, Massachusetts.

The event had 7 sections: Master, Expert, Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D and Class E. The playing format was 5-round Swiss with the time control 40/100, SD/30, d10.

The 3rd Lviv Tradition April Chess Tournament 2016 is taking place from April 25-30, at the Hotel Nton, in the splendid city of Lviv, Ukraine.

The FIDE Zone 4.3 Championships will be happening in Mauritius at the Riu Le Morne Hotel.

The event for the women’s section will be a round robin event starting on 24th of April and finishing on the 1st of May. The Federations represented are Angola, Botswana, Mauritius and South Africa. The top players are WFM Jesse Nikki February (RSA), WIM Anzel Laubscher (RSA) and WIM Francis Onkemetse (BOT)

The Greek Chess Composition Committee, in co-operation with the Greek Chess Federation, organized the 12th European Chess Solving Championship from 15-17th April at the “Oasis Hotel Apartments” in Glyfada, a cosmopolitan suburb of Athens.

The Asian Youth Chess Championships held from 5th Apr to 14 Apr 2016 at the Cultural Central Palace of Mongolian trade Union welcomed more than 470 players from 18 countries.

The competition was organised by the Mongolian Chess Federation under the auspices of the Asian Chess Federation and World Chess Federation. This year’s edition is one of the strongest Championships so far.

This weekend Norway and Sweden play a friendly. The games will take place at Stavanger Forum, the same place that hosts Norway Chess 2016. In total there are 18 boards, 6 open, 6 women, 6 youth (U18-16-14 M/F).

The Russian Youth and Junior Championships are taking place 15-30 April in Loo. The young stars of Russian including Urii Eliseev, Andrey Esipenko, Maxim Chigaev, Alexandra Goryachkina, Saveliy Golubov, Dmity Gordievsky, Kirill Alekseenko, David Paravyan, Daniil Yuffa, and Maxim Lugovskoy are among the participants.

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

England’s Grandmaster (GM) Gawain Jones claimed the Dubai Open Chess Tournament – Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Cup after a masterful performance in Tuesday night’s final round at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club. Jones, who also won the Dubai Open Blitz Cup last Friday, outplayed Russia’s GM Boris Savchenko to finish the tournament undefeated with 7.5 points on six wins and three draws.

The third stage of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix series 2015-2016 was officially opened in the presence of the players, the President of the Georgian Chess Federation Giorgi Giorgadze, the President of the European Chess Union Zurab Azmaiparashvili, the Head of the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, Archil Khabadze, the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport of the Autonomous Republic Adjara, Georgiy Tavamaishvili, the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, Avtandil Beridze,

The Serbian Individual Chess Championship took place from 11-19th April, 2016, in Pirot. The event was a 10 player round robin with classical time control.

GM Miroslav Markovic is the new champion after concluding the tournament with 7,0/9 points. Markovic was 1998 Yugoslav champion and world top-100 player in 1999, but he hasn’t played much in the recent years.