The 29th edition of the Abu Dhabi Masters is taking place on August 16-24 at the Radisson Blu Hotel & Resort. The 9-round Swiss open has Vladislav Artemiev, David Anton and Maxim Matlakov as the top seeds. After three rounds, none of the top-3 are in the leading pack. Five players are sharing first place with 3 out of 3: Vladimir Fedoseev, Xu Xiangyu, Alisher Suleymenov, Rathanvel V S and Abtin Atakhan.
With India's Woman Grandmaster (WGM) Priyanka Nutakki getting expelled from the FIDE World Junior Chess Championship underway in Italy, the All India Chess Federation (AICF) may come out with a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for team .
The 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad was inaugurated on July 28 at the Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai with fanfare, in the presence of Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, and M.K. Stalin, the chief minister of the state of Tamilnadu, the main initiator of the event. The evening witnessed a march-past.
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