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Schedule

Monday 6th Apr Round 1 17:30
Tuesday 7th Apr Round 2 17:30
Wednesday 8th Apr Round 3 17:30
Thursday 9th Apr Round 4 17:30
Friday 10th Apr Rest Day / Blitz Cup 19.00
Saturday 11th Apr Round 5 ?? Round 6 17:30
Sunday 12th Apr Round 7 17:30
Monday 13th Apr Round 8 17:30
Tuesday 14th Apr Round 9 17:30

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17th Dubai Open Chess Tournament

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The 17th Dubai Open Chess Tournament will run from April 5-15 at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club. Ibrahim Al Bannai, Chairman of Dubai Chess and Culture Club and head of the organising committee, announced during a press conference held today (31 March 2015) at the club that players from at least 43 countries will be competing for the prestigious Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup.

The first round of the nine-round Swiss system tournament will be played on April 6 at 6pm. The final round will be played on April 14, with the awarding ceremony on April 15. The club is also organising a blitz chess event for all players on the tournament’s rest day on April 10.

Over 90 Masters confirmed their participation. Belarusian Grandmaster (GM) Sergei Zhigalko is so far the highest-rated player among the confirmed participants with a rating of 2681, while Ukrainian GM Yuri Kuzubov is the second seed with a rating of 2667.

The confirmed participants have so far reached 185 players, including 56 GMs, 20 international masters (IMs) and 14 woman grandmasters (WGMs), along with several highly rated players from Romania, Russia, France, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Germany, the United States, England, Ukraine and Croatia.

India accounts for the biggest foreign delegation with 36 players, followed by Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia.

Indian Women Grand Master Karavade Eesha is the highest rated among women participants with a rating of 2398. Around 20 top-rated women from countries such as Greece, Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Jordan and Egypt, which is represented by WGM Mona Khaled, have already registered. The UAE contingent is led by Woman International Master Noman Ali Al, the Arab Under-20 champion, Women International Master Kholoud Al-Zarooni and Bashaer Khalil, a bronze medallist at the Arab Under-16 championship.

Schedule

Monday 6th Apr Round 1 17:30
Tuesday 7th Apr Round 2 17:30
Wednesday 8th Apr Round 3 17:30
Thursday 9th Apr Round 4 17:30
Friday 10th Apr Rest Day / Blitz Cup 19.00
Saturday 11th Apr Round 5 ?? Round 6 17:30
Sunday 12th Apr Round 7 17:30
Monday 13th Apr Round 8 17:30
Tuesday 14th Apr Round 9 17:30

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2nd LIC International Grandmasters Open 2015

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Press Release

The Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy’s Life Insurance Corporation of India 2nd International Grandmasters Open starts today the 16th Mar 2015, at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Kolkata, India.

The event is restricted to players with Elo Rating 2000 and above, will be a swiss open for 131 players, over 9 games. The field includes 27 Grandmasters, 25 International Masters, 4 Woman Grandmasters and 2 International Women Masters. The well known names from the events are Nigel Short, Dimitri Kokarev, Quesada Perez, Ortiz Suarez, Surya Ganguly, Lu Shanglei, Deep Sengupta, Lalithbabu etc.

The time control will be 90 minutes plus 30 seconds increment from move 1 for entire game. Everyday, games will start at 2.30 PM Indian Standard Time, with the 9th and final round is scheduled for 10.00 AM on the 24th March.

The games will be broadcast live on the internet, at the tournament’s website www.dbca.in/tournament everyday. Photographs, Videos, Results and Standings, apart from downloads of games played everyday, will be updated at the website.

Apart from the website, our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/DBCA2005 as well as our Twitter page https://twitter.com/DBCAChess will be updated of all the news of the event.

The tournament carries a total Prize Fund of Rs.10,00,000, with the first prize of Rs.2,00,000.

Players

SNo.	Title	Name	Rtg	Federation
1	GM	Short Nigel D	2664	England
2	GM	Kokarev Dmitry	2638	Russia
3	GM	Quesada Perez Yuniesky	2637	Cuba
4	GM	Ortiz Suarez Isan Reynaldo	2625	Cuba
5	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2603	India
6	GM	Gopal G.N.	2575	India
7	GM	Lu Shanglei	2570	China
8	GM	Sandipan Chanda	2569	India
9	GM	Kotsur Pavel	2567	Kazakhstan
10	GM	Sengupta Deep	2567	India
11	GM	Stupak Kirill	2567	Belarus
12	GM	Lalith Babu M.R.	2556	India
13	GM	Kovalev Vladislav	2531	Belarus
14	GM	Abdulla Al-Rakib	2521	Bangladesh
15	GM	Oral Tomas	2519	Czech Republic

Full list

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Reykjavik Open 2015

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This year's Reykjavik Open is held on March 10th-18th, 2015.

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LLucmajor International Open 2014 - winners

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Organiser: LLucmajor - Winter Chess

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LLucmajor Open Chess Tournament 2014

III Open Internacional LLucmajor 2014 was held between 11th and 18th of May 2014 at Club Nautico de LLucmajor, near Palma de Mallorca. The winner is GM Sergey Fedorchuk (Ukraine) with 7.5/9 points, followed by GM Alexander Delchev also with 7.5/9 points. On 19th May in Llucmajor starts the WinterChess Woman Masters 2014.

Photo: WinterChess

Final results

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg		Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	2	GM	Fedorchuk Sergey A.	UKR	2638		7.5	46.0	56.0	0.0
2	4	GM	Delchev Aleksander	BUL	2628		7.5	40.5	50.5	0.0
3	8	GM	Solodovnichenko Yuri	UKR	2574		7.0	44.0	56.5	0.0
4	5	GM	Anton Guijarro David	ESP	2626		7.0	42.5	54.5	0.0
5	1	GM	Granda Zuniga Julio E	PER	2675		7.0	40.0	52.0	0.0
6	15	GM	Pap Misa	SRB	2499		7.0	38.5	49.0	0.0
7	6	GM	Agdestein Simen	NOR	2625		6.5	43.5	54.5	0.0
8	13	GM	Movsziszian Karen	ARM	2503		6.5	42.5	54.5	0.0
9	37	IM	Mascaro March Pedro	ESP	2398		6.5	42.0	53.0	0.0
10	3	GM	Sumets Andrey	UKR	2633		6.5	41.0	53.5	0.0
11	11	GM	Narciso Dublan Marc	ESP	2533		6.5	40.0	51.0	0.0
12	25	IM	Andersen Mads	DEN	2452		6.5	39.5	51.5	0.0
13	20	IM	Castellanos Rodriguez Renier	ESP	2474		6.5	39.0	51.0	0.0
14	19	GM	Colovic Aleksandar	MKD	2479		6.5	39.0	50.5	0.0
15	21	GM	Lalic Bogdan	CRO	2470		6.5	38.0	49.5	0.0
16	18	GM	Paunovic Dragan	SRB	2480		6.5	37.0	47.0	0.0
17	14	IM	Almagro Llamas Pablo	ESP	2500		6.5	36.0	46.0	0.0

Full list

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Organiser: LLucmajor - Winter Chess

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International Chess Festival "OPEN IASI" - GM Axel Bachmann is the winner

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Organiser: Iasi Chess Association

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Iasi Open 2014

The first edition of the International Chess Festival "OPEN IASI" was held between 10th and 18th May 2014 in Iasi, Romania. The winner is GM Axel Bachmann with 8/9 points.

Final results

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	RtgI			Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	8	GM	Bachmann Axel	PAR	2589			8.0	45.0	57.5
2	1	GM	Lysyj Igor	RUS	2661			7.5	43.5	56.5
3	13	GM	Parligras Mircea-Emilian	ROU	2559			7.5	40.0	52.0
4	11	GM	Prohaszka Peter	HUN	2575			7.0	43.0	55.5
5	16	GM	Svetushkin Dmitry	MDA	2544			7.0	42.5	54.5
6	14	GM	Kovchan Alexander	UKR	2558			7.0	39.0	49.5
7	15	GM	Nevednichy Vladislav	ROU	2546			7.0	39.0	49.0
8	5	GM	Kovalenko Igor	LAT	2611			7.0	36.5	47.0
9	4	GM	Sjugirov Sanan	RUS	2647			6.5	44.5	56.5
10	12	GM	Kulaots Kaido	EST	2571			6.5	41.5	52.5
11	2	GM	L'ami Erwin	NED	2651			6.5	41.5	52.5
12	24	IM	Georgescu Tiberiu-Marian	ROU	2492			6.5	41.5	52.0
13	10	GM	Fier Alexandr	BRA	2575			6.5	41.0	52.0
14	22	IM	Ankit R. Rajpara	IND	2506			6.5	41.0	52.0
15	9	GM	Jianu Vlad-Cristian	ROU	2579			6.5	40.0	51.0
16	7	GM	Iordachescu Viorel	MDA	2594			6.5	39.5	50.5
17	23	IM	Ardelean George-Catalin	ROU	2496			6.5	39.0	50.0
18	26	IM	Pavlidis Antonios	GRE	2474			6.5	38.5	51.5
19	18	GM	Halkias Stelios	GRE	2530			6.5	37.5	48.0

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Results of the 13th Asian Continental Chess Torunament

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Official webpage: Asian Chess Continental, Sharjah 2014

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GM Yangyi Yu from China won the Open tournament and WGM Irine Kharisma Sukandar from Indonesia won the Women's tournament, both with 7.0/9 points.

The 13th Asian Continental/Individual Open and Women’s Chess Championships was held from 16th to 26th April 2014 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Results - OPEN

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	4	GM	Yu Yangyi	CHN	2667	7.0	0.0	5	2593
2	12	GM	Adhiban B.	IND	2609	6.5	0.0	5	2576
3	5	GM	Ni Hua	CHN	2654	6.5	0.0	5	2501
4	2	GM	Kasimdzhanov Rustam	UZB	2693	6.5	0.0	4	2582
5	14	GM	Wen Yang	CHN	2581	6.5	0.0	4	2557
6	17	GM	Salem A.R. Saleh	UAE	2561	6.0	0.0	4	2578
7	1	GM	Bu Xiangzhi	CHN	2699	6.0	0.0	4	2548
8	10	GM	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	VIE	2621	6.0	0.0	4	2504
9	16	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	IND	2576	6.0	0.0	4	2491
10	6	GM	Negi Parimarjan	IND	2640	6.0	0.0	3	2538
11	20	GM	Sengupta Deep	IND	2531	5.5	0.0	5	2487
12	18	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	IRI	2556	5.5	0.0	4	2610
13	15	GM	Jumabayev Rinat	KAZ	2580	5.5	0.0	4	2519
14	26	GM	Gundavaa Bayarsaikhan	MGL	2507	5.5	0.0	4	2423
15	9	GM	Wei Yi	CHN	2629	5.5	0.0	3	2488
16	24	IM	Wang Chen	CHN	2513	5.5	0.0	3	2486
17	11	GM	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	IND	2610	5.5	0.0	2	2481

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Results -WOMEN

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	12	WGM	Sukandar Irine Kharisma	INA	2319	7.0	0.0	6	2375
2	8	WGM	Pourkashiyan Atousa	IRI	2335	6.0	0.0	5	2351
3	1	WGM	Tan Zhongyi	CHN	2488	6.0	0.0	5	2258
4	15	WGM	Hoang Thi Bao Tram	VIE	2280	6.0	0.0	4	2403
5	14	WGM	Khademalsharieh Sarasadat	IRI	2292	5.5	0.0	4	2384
6	10	WIM	Gong Qianyun	SIN	2327	5.5	0.0	3	2369
7	17	WGM	Nguyen Thi Thanh An	VIE	2237	5.5	0.0	3	2340
8	4	IM	Karavade Eesha	IND	2414	5.5	0.0	3	2265
9	9	IM	Pham Le Thao Nguyen	VIE	2332	5.5	0.0	3	2209
10	3	IM	Tania Sachdev	IND	2427	5.0	0.0	3	2348
11	11	WIM	Ni Shiqun	CHN	2325	5.0	0.0	3	2329
12	6	WIM	Abdumalik Zhansaya	KAZ	2379	5.0	0.0	3	2278
13	13	WIM	Nguyen Thi Mai Hung	VIE	2312	5.0	0.0	3	2207
14	2	IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	MGL	2432	5.0	0.0	2	2355
15	18	WIM	Hoang Thi Nhu Y	VIE	2207	5.0	0.0	2	2321

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13th Asian Continental/Individual Open and Women’s Chess Championships

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Official webpage: Asian Chess Continental, Sharjah 2014

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The 13th Asian Continental/Individual Open and Women’s Chess Championships will be held from 16th to 26th April 2014 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Over 100 players are taking part.

Participants

Men

No.			Name	FideID	FED	RtgI
1		GM	Harikrishna P.	5007003	IND	2726
2		GM	Bu Xiangzhi	8601445	CHN	2699
3		GM	Kasimdzhanov Rustam	14200244	UZB	2693
4		GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	5004985	IND	2680
5		GM	Yu Yangyi	8603820	CHN	2667
6		GM	Ni Hua	8601160	CHN	2654
7		GM	Negi Parimarjan	5016690	IND	2640
8		GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	5002150	IND	2631
9		GM	Gupta Abhijeet	5010608	IND	2630
10		GM	Wei Yi	8603405	CHN	2629
11		GM	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	12401110	VIE	2621
12		GM	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	5029465	IND	2610
13		GM	Adhiban B.	5018471	IND	2609

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Women

No.			Name	FideID	FED	Rtg
1		GM	Harika Dronavalli	5015197	IND	2507
2		WGM	Tan Zhongyi	8603642	CHN	2488
3		IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	4900758	MGL	2432
4		IM	Tania Sachdev	5007844	IND	2427
5		IM	Karavade Eesha	5012600	IND	2414
6		WGM	Gomes Mary Ann	5013623	IND	2386
7		WIM	Abdumalik Zhansaya	13703544	KAZ	2379
8		WGM	Soumya Swaminathan	5016193	IND	2336
9		WGM	Pourkashiyan Atousa	12502014	IRI	2335
10		IM	Pham Le Thao Nguyen	12401226	VIE	2332
11		WIM	Gong Qianyun	8602425	SIN	2327
12		WIM	Ni Shiqun	8608466	CHN	2325
13		WGM	Sukandar Irine Kharisma	7101937	INA	2319
14		WIM	Nguyen Thi Mai Hung	12401676	VIE	2312

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Schedule

Date	Round	Time	Championship
Wednesday 16th April 2014	Arrival	After 14:00	Open &Women
Thursday 17th April 2014	Round 1	16:00	Open &Women
Friday 18th April 2014	Round 2	15:00	Open &Women
Saturday 19th April 2014	Round 3 Blitz	11:00 18:00	Open &Women Open &Women
Sunday 20th April 2014	Round 4	15:00	Open &Women
Monday 21st April 2014	Round 5	15:00	Open &Women
Tuesday 22nd April 2014	Round 6	15:00	Open &Women
Wednesday 23rd April 2014	Round 7	15:00	Open &Women
Thursday 24th April 2014	Round 8	15:00	Open &Women
Friday 25th April 2014	Round 9 Closing Ceremony	15:00 21:00	Open &Women
Saturday 26th April 2014	Departure	12:00	Open &Women

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