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Grand Chess Tour Rapid and Blitz in Paris, France Wednesday 20th Jun 2018 to Sunday 24th Jun 2018. Players: Grischuk, Caruana, Nakamura, Aronian, MVL, Mamedyarov, Karjakin, Anand, Wesley So and Kramnik.
The Week in Chess 1232 of 18th June 2018 by Mark Crowther. 39 stories and 1552 games. Links down the right hand margin or on the The Week in Chess Download page.

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World Champion Magnus Carlsen's schedule in 2018: Norway Chess: May 27th-Jun 8th, Biel: July 22nd-Aug 1st, European Club Cup (probable): 11th-19th Oct, World Championship vs Caruana 9th to 28th Nov. Not known whether he'll play any part in the Olympiad: 23rd Sept to 6th Oct. Based on info by Tarjei J. Svensen @TarjeiJS.

Paris GCT Rapid and Blitz 2018

Paris GCT Rapid and Blitz 2018 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Tue Jun 19 14:55:00 2018)

The Paris Grand Chess Tour Rapid and Blitz tournament takes place 20th to 24th June 2018. Players: Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Vladimir Kramnik (Wild Card), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Sergey Karjakin, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Grischuk, Levon Aronian and Viswanathan Anand. Read more ....

GCT Rapid and Blitz Paris 2018 (Paris FRA)
Wed 20th Jun 2018 - Sun 24th Jun 2018 - Official Site - Results - Live

GCT Rapid Paris 2018 (10 players 9 Rds SRR Indiv TC:25m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games Rapid | Live Rapid

GCT Blitz Paris 2018 (10 players 18 Rds DRR Indiv TC:5m+3spm)

Cez Trophy 2018

Cez Trophy 2018 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Sat Jun 16 18:13:00 2018)

The Cez Trophy was a 12 game rapid match between David Navara and Pentala Harikrishna in Prague, 13th to 16th June. Time control: 20 minutes +10 seconds per move. Harikrishna was a last minute stand in for Ding Liren who fractured his hip in Norway. Harikrishna won the match 7-5 after winning all three games on the final day. Read more ....

Cez Trophy 2018 (Prague CZE)
Tue 12th Jun 2018 - Sun 17th Jun 2018 - Official Site - Live

Cez Trophy 2018 (2 players 12 Rds Match Indiv TC:20m+10spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games

YourNextMove GCT Rapid and Blitz 2018

YourNextMove GCT Rapid and Blitz 2018 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Sat Jun 16 16:03:00 2018)

The YourNextMove Rapid and Blitz tournament that took place in Leuven, Belgium 12th-16th June was the first event in the 2018 Grand Chess Tour. Players: Caruana, Mamedyarov, MVL, Karjakin, Giri, So, Nakamura, Grischuk, Aronian, Anand. Wesley So just hung on to win the event in the blitz section after having a large lead by winning the rapid. Full tables below. The format will be repeated in Paris 20th to 24th June 2018. Read more ....

GCT Rapid and Blitz YourNextMove 2018 (Leuven BEL)
Tue 12th Jun 2018 - Sat 16th Jun 2018 - Official Site - Results - Live

GCT Rapid YourNextMove (10 players 9 Rds SRR Indiv TC:25m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games Rapid

GCT Blitz YourNextMove (10 players 18 Rds DRR Indiv TC:5m+3spm) - Games in PGN: Games Blitz

1st Schaakweek Apeldoorn 2018

1st Schaakweek Apeldoorn 2018 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Fri Jun 15 16:09:00 2018)

The 1st Schaakweek Apeldoorn took place 7th to 17th June 2018. 9th seed Hugo Ten Hertog won the GM tournament on tie-break from Tiger Hillarp-Persson after both finished on 6pts/9. Read more ....

1st Schaakweek Apeldoorn 2018 (Apeldoorn NED)
Thu 7th Jun 2018 - Sun 17th Jun 2018 - Official Site - Results

1st Schaakweek Apeldoorn (10 players 9 Rds SRR Indiv ) - Games in PGN: Games

Yu Yangyi vs Svidler Rapid and Blitz Match 2018

Yu Yangyi vs Svidler Rapid and Blitz Match 2018 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Thu Jun 14 12:43:00 2018)

The Luohu Grand Master Rapid and Blitz Match took place 12th to 14th June 2018. Yu Yangyi plays Peter Svidler in a match of 8 rapid and 10 blitz games. Peter Svidler won the rapid match 6-2 including 5 wins in a row, these games were worth double the blitz games in the final standings, Yu won the blitz part of the match 6.5-3.5 including winning 4 of the last 5 games. The final score was 15.5-10.5 in Svidler's favour. Read more ....

Luohu Grand Master Rapid and Blitz Match 2018 (Shenzhen CHN)
Mon 11th Jun 2018 - Fri 15th Jun 2018 - Official Site - Results - Live

Luohu GM Rapid 2018 (2 players 8 Rds Match Indiv TC:10m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games

Luohu GM Blitz 2018 (2 players 10 Rds Match Indiv TC:3m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Blitz

13th American Continental 2018

13th American Continental 2018 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Mon Jun 11 13:11:00 2018)

The 13th American Continental Championship took place in Montevideo, Uruguay 1st to 10th June 2018. Leading players: Samuel Shankland, Jorge Cori, Jeffery Xiong, Sandro Mareco, Emilio Cordova, Diego Flores, Neuris Delgado Ramirez, Cristhian Cruz, Awonder Liang, Alan Pichot, Sergey Erenburg, Federico Perez Ponsa, Elshan Moradiabadi, Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian, Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara, Felipe de Cresce El Debs, Diego Rafael Di Berardino, Salvador Alonso etc, Top seed Sam Shankland was a convincing winner with 9/11 half a point clear of Diego Flores. The top four finishers qualified for next year's World Cup and Jorge Cori and Emilio Cordova grabbed the final two places after a 7 player tie-break.. Read more ....

13th American Continental 2018 (Montevideo URU)
Fri 1st Jun 2018 - Sun 10th Jun 2018 - Official Site - Results - Live

13th American Continental (11 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games

American Continental TB (7 players 7 Rds SRR Indiv TC:15m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games

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Tournaments for Saturday 23rd June 2018 combined with links to official website, live coverage and PGN file
Event	Site	FED	UK Time	Rd
Web	Live	PGN
Other events today
National Open 2018	Las Vegas	USA		4
National Open 2018	Las Vegas	USA		5
18th IPCA WCh 2018	Prague	CZE	08:00	2
ch-HUN Youth U18 2018	Balatonlelle	HUN	08:00	3
CHN Team Women 2018	Hangzhou	CHN	08:00	7
CHN Team Men 2018	Hangzhou	CHN	08:00	7
13th Teplice Open 2018	Teplice	CZE	08:00	8
1st Pelion Open 2018	Agios Ioannis	GRE	08:00	9
Astana Open GM Norm 2018	Astana	KAZ	10:00	7
HSG Open 2018	Hilversum	NED	11:30	3
11th Asrian Memorial 2018	Yerevan	ARM	12:00	3
GCT Blitz Paris 2018	Paris	FRA	13:00	1
Werder Bremen IM	Bremen	GER	13:00	8
GCT Blitz Paris 2018	Paris	FRA	13:30	2
Kupreichik Mem GM 2018	Minsk	BLR	14:00	11
18th IPCA WCh 2018	Prague	CZE	14:00	3
GCT Blitz Paris 2018	Paris	FRA	14:00	3
2nd Hersonissos Open 2018	Hersonissos	GRE	14:00	8
4th ad Gredine Open 2018	Ortisei	ITA	14:00	8
Kupreichik Mem Open 2018	Minsk	BLR	14:00	9
GCT Blitz Paris 2018	Paris	FRA	14:30	4
Ceske Budejovice GM 2018	Ceske Budejovice	CZE	15:00	3
ch-CZE Women 2018	Ceske Budejovice	CZE	15:00	3
Ceske Budejovice Open	Ceske Budejovice	CZE	15:00	3
GCT Blitz Paris 2018	Paris	FRA	15:00	5
Kupreichik Mem Open 2018	Minsk	BLR	15:15	10
Kupreichik Mem GM 2018	Minsk	BLR	15:15	12
32nd Pula Open 2018	Pula	CRO	15:30	1
GCT Blitz Paris 2018	Paris	FRA	15:30	6
21st Iraklio Open 2018	Athens	GRE	15:30	8
28th Gros Open 2018	Donostia	ESP	16:00	2
GCT Blitz Paris 2018	Paris	FRA	16:00	7
10th Carlos I Open 2018	Sanxenxo	ESP	16:00	8
Silver Lake Open 2018	Veliko Gradiste	SRB	16:00	8
Kupreichik Mem Open 2018	Minsk	BLR	16:30	11
Kupreichik Mem GM 2018	Minsk	BLR	16:30	13
GCT Blitz Paris 2018	Paris	FRA	16:30	8
GCT Blitz Paris 2018	Paris	FRA	17:00	9
HSG Open 2018	Hilversum	NED	17:30	4