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Chinese Taipei Chess Association (CTCA) has the honor to invite all chess players to participate in the 2020 CTCA International Chess Open to be organized in Taichung, Taiwan from 17 thAugust to 22 ndAugust 2020.

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FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich congratulated the winners of the Asian Juniors and Girls Online Chess Championships organized by the Asian Chess Federation and Chess.com. The top three girls from the previous day joined the closing ceremony held immediately after the junior championship.

The FIDE President joined the awards ceremonies in the Zoom room together with Asian Chess Federation Secretary General Hisham Al Taher, as Chief Arbiter Abulrahim Mahdi announced the top three winners in the boys and girls divisions. Honored guest was FIDE Arbiters Commission Chairman Laurent Freyd. Over 200 players from 43 countries joined the tournament. Here are the winners and links to chess-results.com.

Juniors Finals

1st: Abdusattoro Nodirbek      GM  UZB

2nd Tahbaz Arash                   IM    IRI

3rd  Vokhidov Sahmsidin        GM  UZB

Girls Finals

1st   Ning Kaiyu                      WIM  CHN

2nd  Munkhul Turmunkh         WIM  MGL

3rd  Arpita Mukherjee             WIM  IND

The winners took turns to express their thanks to the organizers for a successful tournament. Tournament Director Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh made pairings by Swiss Manager program and uploaded to Chess.com. Assisting the tournament were Deputy Chief Arbiters Haroon or Rashid of Bangladesh and K.K.Chan of Hong Kong together with Pairings Assistants IA Patrick Lee and FA Felix Poloyapoy of the Philippines. GM Dimitri Komarov of Ukraine and Jaime Kenmure of Australia gave running commentary on Twitch.

Asian Chess Federation thanks Nick Barton and Simon McNamara of Chess.com for their support.

Chess Federation of Pakistan is going to organize multiple tournaments in line with “FIDE Checkmate Coronavirus” initiative. Below is the schedule of six tournaments on June 9,10 & 11, 2020 and The links to the tournaments are given below:

1- Name of the Federation: Chess Federation of Pakistan

2- Contact person: Mr. Amin Malik, Vice President, Chess Federation of Pakistan & Delegate

3- Tournament Administrator: Mr. Waqar Madni

4- Platform where the tournament will be held: lichess, https://lichess.org/team/chess-federation-of-pakistan

5- Complete schedule of the tournament– (Date, starting time, and ending time)

Zonals started 27th May to select qualifiers to the Asian Juniors and Girls Online Chess Championships organized by the Asian Chess Federation and Chess.com.

The Finals, scheduled 3rd June for the Girls and 4th June for the Juniors, will be 9-round Swiss System tournaments.

Players were proctored in a Zoom room separately for girls and boys by Chief Arbiter Abdulrahim Mahdi and Technical Delegate Casto Abundo. Tournament Director Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh made pairings by Swiss Manager and input into Chess.com. Assisting the organization were: IA Haroon or Rashid of Bangladesh, KK Chan of Hong Kong, IA Patrick Lee and FA Felix Poloyapoy of Philippines, IA Irina Gevorgyan of Uzbekistan, FA Anuar Ismagambetov from Kazakhstan and IA Shaun Press of Papua New Guinea.

Here are the list of qualifiers and the links to chess-results.com:

Zone 3.1 Boys

Tabatabaei Amin                             GM     IRI       2381

Tahbaz Arash                                   IM       IRI       2302

Maghsoodloo Parham                   GM     IRI       2532

Zone 3.2 Boys

Mohammad Fahad Raman           IM       BAN    2243

Zia Tahsin Tajwar                                        BAN    1890

Thilakarathne G M H                      FM      SRI      2010

Zone 3.3 Boys

Quizon Daniel                                  IM       PHI      2164

Batsuren Dambasuren                   IM       MGL   2118

Reyes Chester Neil                                      PHI      1737

Zone 3.4 Boys

Abdusattorov Nodirbek                 GM     UZB    2469

Vokhidov Samsiddin                       GM     UZB    2538

Zahlmakhanov Ramazan               FM      KAZ     2475

Zone 3.5 Boys

Liu Yan                                                GM    CHN    2427

Peng Xiongjian                                              CHN    2364

Peng Hongchi                                                CHN    2178

Zone 3.6 Boys

Parle Hughston                                            AUS    2046

Gong Daniel Hanwen                     FM      NZL     2186

Fan Allen Chi Zhou                          FM      NZL     1971

Zone 3.7 Boys

Garg Aradhya                                               IND     2025

Guha Mitrabha                                IM       IND     2122

Chatterjee Koustav             IM       IND     2055

Zone 3.1 Girls

Zahjedifar Anahita                          WFM  IRI       1961

Asgharzadeh Mitra                         WFM  IRI       1931

Alinasab Mobina                             WIM   iRI       2143

Zone 3.2 Girls

Jayaweera Sayuni Gihansa            WCM SRI      1519

Noshin Anjum                                  WFM  BAN    1676

Dhampriya HKT Dewnethmie                   SRI      1466

Zone 3.3 Girls

Munkhzul Turmunkh                      WIM   MGL   2044

Altantuya Boldbaatar                    WIM   MGL   1735

Singgih Siajeng Theresa                 WFM  INA     1823

Zone 3.4 Girls

Abrorova Sabrina                                        TJK      1788

Kamdamova Afruza                        WCM UZB    1809

Khegay Yuliva                                   WCM UZB    1798

Zone 3,5 Girls

Ning Kaiyu                                          WIM  CHN   1884

Song Yuxin                                          WIM  CHN   2092

Bai Xue                                                            CHN   1825

Zone 3.6 Girls

Ning Isabelle Yixuan                                NZL     1492

Joseph Ritika                                               NZL

Gan Emily                                                     NZL     1109

Zone 3.7 Girls

Pandey Srishti                                  WFM  IND     1952

Mukherjee Arpita                           WIM   IND     1837

Hagawane Aakanksha                    WIM   IND     1870

Chess Power (New Zealand) shall hold the Sharp vs Wise Match for both juniors and adults to participate in. It is casual, fun and will give your coaches an insight into how we run online events. It is open to juniors rated over 1000 and adults. It is free. We currently have players from NZ, Australia and Fiji. And we are expecting German players in the next event.

Players play for teams for their country – if they are juniors they are in the Sharp team. If they are adults over 18, they play for the Wise team.

It would be great if we can get some teams from your neck of the woods. Here is the link with all the info https://www.chesspower.co.nz/event/351325

In line with the guidance of the wise leadership of United Arab Emirates considering the threat of spread of the new Coronavirus – Covid 19, the Abu Dhabi Sports Council in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Chess Club & Mind Games, organizes the “Abu Dhabi Super Blitz Challenge”.and Stay Home Open Chess Tournament. Download regulations:

ABU DHABI SUPER BLITZ CHESS TOURNAMENT

Stay Home open chess tournament