On 4-5 of August in Villarrobledo, Spain took place a strong rapid tournament, part of a large festival. 189 Participants, including Top GMs Topalov, Ivanchuk, Ponomariov, Shirov, Dreev and many other strong grandmasters played a 9 round Swiss.

The Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen won the tournament, a part of the international chess festival Biel/Bien 2007. The victory came after a tie-break against Alexander Onischuk, who represents the USA.

The 40-th Bienne/Biel Chess Festival takes place 21-st July - 3-rd August 2007.
Today the young chess tallent Magnus Carlsen from Norway won his game against Alexander Onischuk and take a leader position. He has 4 points.

Round 5 (July 28, 2007):

Carlsen, Magnus		- Onischuk, Alexander	1-0
Polgar, Judit		- Avrukh, Boris		1/2
Bu Xiangzhi		- Motylev, Alexander	1-0
Pelletier, Yannick	- Radjabov, Teimour	1/2
Van Wely, Loek		- Grischuk, Alexander	1/2

Round 5 Standings:

Indian super grandmaster Viswanathan Anand who leads FIDE's July Top list won the Leon chess tournament by beating Vesselin Topalov 3-1 in the final.
In semi-finals Topalov won with 2.5-1.5 against gm Rustam Kasimdzhanov. A day before Anand beat Ukrainian gm Ruslan Ponomariov with 3-1.
Tournament took place in Guidad de Leon /Spain/ 7-9-th July 2007.

The World Candidates Matches will be held May 26th - June 14th, 2007 in Elista, Kalmykia. Each match will consist of six games, and, if necessary, tie-break rapid games. There will be a two rounds of matches producing four players who will play in the Mexico City tournament to decide the world champion alongside Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler and Alexander Morozevich to produce an 8 player, 14 round double round robin event September 12th-30th 2007. "Deep Fritz" and "Deep Junior" will have a 6 game match alongside the event.

World Candidates Matches - Elista /Round I/:

China leads the first World Women's Team Chess Championship 2007. The event is taking place from 19 to 30 May in Ekaterinburg (Russia), with women's teams from Russia, Ukraine, China, Armenia, Georgia, Netherlands, Poland, Vietnam, Germany and Botswana.

After round 5 China leads with 9 points, Russia - 8 points, Ukraine - 7 points...

Standings:
http://www.chesswomen.com/en/championship/tabl/fulltab.php
Live games:
http://www.chesswomen.com/en/championship/tabl/pairings.php

"Tomsk 400" won the Russian Team Championships with a perfect 9/9 score. The event was take place in Sochi on Black Sea. The "Tomsk-400" team members was Alexander Morozevich (6/8), Dmitry Jakovenko (4Ѕ/7), Sergey Karjakin (5Ѕ/8), Rustam Kasimdzhanov (1Ѕ/3), Ernesto Inarkiev (3Ѕ/7), Vladislav Tkachiev (4/7), Victor Bologan (4Ѕ/6) and Pavel Smirnov (6/8).

Final Round 9 standings:

Bulgarian top grandmaster Veselin Topalov had lost his game against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in 3-th round of M-Tel Masters 2007 chess tourney. They had played in Anti-Meran gambit.
Michael Adams beat European champion Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu in French Defence.
Indian grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran, who played at this round with black pieces, beat American Gata Kamsky in Queen Gambit.

View live games: http://www.soloajedrez.com/sofia07/
Official web-site: http://www.mtelmasters.com/bg/

Round 4 /May 13-th, 2007/:

Peter Leko and Vladimir Kramnik play a rapid match April 25th-29th 2007 at the National Theater of Miskolc Hungary. It will be an 8 game match - on 25-th, 26-th, 28-th and 29-th of April 2007.
Games starts at 16.00 h. and 17.30 h. local time.

Official web site: http://www.lekokramnyik.hu/eng/

The 8th Individual European Chess Championships (EURO 2007) took place from April 2nd to 15th, 2007 in Dresden, Germany in the International Congress Center. The event was an 11 round Swiss.

Men:
Seven players tied for first. The top two on tiebreak, Vladislav Tkachiev of France and Emil Sutovsky of Israel, faced each other in a playoff, which Tkachiev won 2-0. He was duely crowned Eighth European Chess Champion. Second place is for Emil Sutovski, 3rd is Dmitry Jakovenko (RUS).

Women:
A round before the end of the tournament it was clear that nobody could catch Russian IM Tatiana Kosintseva, who led the field by two full points. Second is Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL), 3rd is Tatiana's sister - Nadezhda.