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The 10th Annual Philadelphia Open was held over the Easter weekend from March 23-27, 2016, at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

The event had 7 sections: Open, Under 2200, Under 2000, Under 1800, Under 1600, Under 1400 and Under 1100.

The Open Section was a 5-day 9-round Swiss tournament with FIDE norms possible. 87 players competed in this group.

The 2016 Karpos Open is taking place from 1-7th April at the Hotel Aleksandar Palace in Skopje, FYR Macedonia.

The 10th Annual Grand Pacific Open was held from 25-28th March at the Hotel Grand Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

The 6-round Swiss event had three rating sections and guaranteed prize fund of $5000.

The 10th Annual Grand Pacific Open drew a blowout record 152 players from around the world: Brazil, France, 6 states and 7 provinces.

The US Virgin Islands Chess Federation was the host for the 2016 edition of the CARIFTA Chess Championships. The tournament has now finished and winners in each of the sections are as follows:

The FIDE Zonal 4.4 Chess Championships are being held in Accra, Ghana. Round 1 got underway and saw all the favourites win except for on boards 12 and 15 where the unrated players from Liberia upset their opponents with a win.

Asian Nations Chess Cup 2016 is taking place March 28 – April 5 in UAE. Here are the live games from the women section of the event, for the men section visit this live broadcast

Asian Nations Chess Cup 2016 is taking place March 28 – April 5 in UAE. It features top Grandmasters including GM Bu Xiangzhi, GM Wang Yue, GM Adhiban, GM Wei Yi, GM S.P. Sethuraman, GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, GM Sasikiran Krishnan, GM Lu Shanglei, GM Salem A.R. Saleh, GM Zhou Jianchao, GM Rinat Jumabayev, GM Murtas Kazhgaleyev, GM Anuar Ismagambetov, GM Eshan Ghaem Maghami, GM Rustam Khusnutdinov, etc.

Report by Jamie Kenmure

Chess superpowers China and India easily won in the opening round to share the early lead with other favorites in the Asian Nations Cup Chess Team Championship organized

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 6 to 8 May 2016 in New Delhi, India, by the All India Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.