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The 42nd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2014 is held on 12-20th July as an 8-player round robin tournament and will be live daily on Chessdom. The event is organized by the City of Dortmund and the German Chess Federation. The playing venue is Orchesterzentrum NRW, Brückstraße 47, Dortmund, Germany. The field includes Fabiano Caruana ITA 2789, Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2777, [...]

The 2014 edition of Miguel Najdorf International Chess Festival is taking place from 14th to 20th July 2014, at the Palace of Culture and Science in the Polish capital Warsaw. 84 players will be vying for the first prize of 5.000 €. Top seed is Ukrainian GM Alexander Areshchenko. Official website

The 2014 edition of Schack-SM is hosted by the town of Borlange, situated in Dalarna County, Sweden from 11-20 July, 2014. The event is a 10 player round robin, including: GM Nils Grandelius 2588, GM Tiger Hillarp Persson 2564,  GM Emanuel Berg 2557, IM Michael Wiedenkeller 2479, GM Erik Blomqvist 2496, GM Pia Cramling 2491, GM Pontus Carlsson [...]

The FIDE World Senior Team Chess Championship is taking place from 12th to 22nd July, 2014, in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania and second biggest city in the Baltic states. The event is a nine round Swiss tournament, split into two Sections (Open tournament for teams with players 50+ and Open tournament for teams with [...]

The 9th International Chess Tournament “Nana Aleksandria’s Cup – 2014″ is taking place from 12th to 20th July, 2014, in Poti, a port city in Georgia, situated on the eastern Black Sea coast. The event is organized by Local Management of Poti, Georgian Chess Federation and Chess and Draughts complex sport school of Poti “Nana” with media support [...]

The 8th edition of Leiden Chess Tournament is taking place on 11-20th July, 2014, in Leiden, a city in the Dutch province of South Holland. The event is organized by the Stichting Denksportpromotie Nederland, a foundation for mind sports, in a 9 round Swiss format. The first prize is in the amount of 1750 €. 84 participant take [...]

The Norway National Tournament 2014 is taking place on 12-20th July, 2014, in the city of Trondheim, Norway. Official website

The 6th Rethymno International Chess Tournament is taking place from 12th to 19th July, 2014, at the Municipal House of Culture, in the city of Rethymno on island Crete, Greece. The event is a 9 round Swiss, valid for FIDE title norms. Indian GM Abhijeet Gupta is top seeded. More information here / Official website

The 23rd Macedonian Team Chess Championship 2014 is taking place on 14-20th July 2014 at the Hotel Drim in Struga, a popular touristic town in the Republic of Macedonia, lying on the shore of Lake Ohrid. The highest rated players are GM Yuriy Kryvoruchko (Ukraine), GM Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukraine), GM Alexander Delchev (Bulgaria). Official website