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Preparations for the 39th edition of “Ikaros” are under way so as everything to be ready on time to welcome and host the Greek and foreigner chess players who will visit the beautiful island of Ikaria this July seeking to combine chess with low cost and relaxing vacations.

Many are already acquainted with GoldChess. For those of you who have not seen it yet, it is new global chess site that invites the world chess community to a unique tournament divided into two sections: professional and amateur.

The 2016 edition of Bangkok Chess Open takes place April 10-17 in the 5-star Dusit Thani Hotel. The Open section has 248 registered players from 42 countries. Among them are 17 Grandmasters and 24 International Masters. Top seeded are GM Francisco Vallejo Pons, GM Nigel Short, GM Loek Van Wely, and GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly. See the full participants list here

The Dubai Chess Open 2016 will take place 11-20 April. Games will be daily live on Chessdom.com with triple engine analysis by the TCEC engines Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini. This year’s tournament has more than 205 registered players, which is a new tournament record. Participants come from 41 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

The organising committee has completed its preparations for the Dubai Open Chess Tournament 2016 – Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Cup, which is held annually under the p

The 16th Bangkok Chess Club Open – Thailand Open Chess Championships 2016 is taking place from 10-17th April in Dusit Thani, Bangkok, Thailand.

There are two sections: Open category for all players (9-round Swiss), and Challenger category for players rated below 2100 or unrated (7-round Swiss).

The Open section has 248 registered players from 42 countries. Among them are 17 Grandmasters and 24 International Masters.

The 46th International Chess Tournament “Bosna 2016″ is scheduled to take place from 28th May to 3rd June at the Hotel Saraj in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Russian Superfinal of the 69th Championship for men and 66th Championship for women will take place in October 2016 in Novosibirsk.

The Russian Chess Federation and Timchenko Foundation have maintained an open call of interest from 26th February to 25th March to accept applications from regional chess federations and local museums.