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PLACE - Sofia, Bulgaria, Central Military Club.
RATE OF PLAY Sistem - round - robin in two rounds ( all play all with White and Black alternatively)
TIME CONTROL - 90 min for 40 moves + 1 hour to the end of the game.
Participants: Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, 2767); Levon Aronian (Armenia 2763); Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijdan 2751); Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraina 2740); Bu Xiangzhi (China 2708); Ivan Cheparinov (Bulgaria 2695).

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The IX European Individual Chess Championship took place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria 20th April - 4th May 2008. Sergei Tiviakov took the men’s title with 8.5/11 half a point clear of the field, Sergei Movsessian took the silver after beating Sergey Volkov in the playoffs.

Commented games by Tiviakov:
4  round Kozul Zdenko - Tiviakov Sergei  0 - 1
11 round Tiviakov Sergei - Sutovsky Emil 1 - 0

Dinosaur Chess (Mac version) is an entertaining chess program that will keep the attention of children while teaching them the basics of chess. The program contains four modes: LEARN, PLAY, PROGRESS and DINO FIGHT.

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Chess Grand Prix series under the aegis of FIDE will be held from April 20th 2008 till December 23th 2009.
Event 1 April 20th - May 6th 2008, Baku, Azerbaijan
Event 2 July 30th - August 15th 2008, Sochi, Russia
Event 3 December 13th - 29th, 2008, Doha, Qatar
Event 4 April 14th - 28th, 2009, Montreux, Switzerland
Event 5 August 8th - 24th, 2009, Elista, Russia
Event 6 December 7th - 23rd, 2009, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic

Twenty one grand masters, among whom nineteen are in the Top 50 April 2008 FIDE ratings, will participate in these tournaments. The rating favorite is Magnus Carlsen from Norway with current 2765 points. Each tournament will be a 14 player round robin. Each player will play four FIDE tournaments. Each player will win a money prize (even the participant, who takes the last place gets 4000 Euro!) and get ranking points for the taken place. After the tournament series is over, additional prizes are provided (the prize for the first place is 75000 Euro! There are ten prizes provided). The prize depends on the number of cumulative points scored in the FIDE Grand Prix Series.

Russian Chess Championship among club teams is taking place at “Dagomys” sport and health complex in Sochi from the 1st till 14th of April 2008. This competition is one of the most intense events in Russian team championships history. 12 premier league teams will play the round-robin tournament. As a reward, besides the champion title, the winner team will get 4 vouchers for Europe Chess Club Cup. The championship organizers imposed “legionary” limitation – every team is allowed to declare no more than three foreigners. Such grand masters as Alexander Morozevich (2773), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2752), Peter Svidler (2746), Vasiliy Ivanchik (2740) are participating in this tournament. The average rating of the Ural team is 2702,25.