Kenilworth Quads
March 12th – March 26th
USCF-rated
3-RR
Time Control : G/60
Entry Fee : $10
Prizes : $32 to 1st in each quad
Registration : 3/12 from 8:00-8:30 p.m., at site
Kenilworth Community Center
575 Kenilworth Boulevard
Kenilworth, NJ 07033
1st round – Thursday 3/12, 8:35 or 8:40 p.m.
2nd round – Thursday 3/19, 8:30 p.m.
3rd round – Thursday 3/26, 8:30 p.m.
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The opening ceremony of the Is Bank Atatürk FIDE Women Masters in Turkey featured reigning Women’s World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk and Turkish media mogul Ahmet Çalik as special guests. After three rounds there are four players in the lead, with 2.5/3 points each. Top seeds Humpy and Hou Yifan, followed by Zhao Xue and IM Martha Fierro from Ecuador. Big pictorial report.
A FIDE Presidential Board meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, had decided to postpone the World Championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov until latest April 20th, 2010, and opened the bidding process. Originally the match was scheduled for September this year. The PB also accepted the bid by UEP to stage the world chess championship cycle 2010-2011. Press release.