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Chess Digest ( Vol 1 Issue 8) WORLD  NORWAY CHESS 2016 The  Norway Chess 2016 , sponsored by Altibox, is being held in Stavanger from April 18-30. It is a ten player single round robin event and is   one of the strongest events of the first half of 2016.After 6 rounds, Current World Champion Magnus Carlsen is leading the tournament. The Norway Chess 2016 organizers note in a new press release, “The tournament takes great pride in being amongst the top rated chess tournaments in the world and has received a lot of attention by being a unique and different chess tournament.” On the rest day, the players visited scholastic players at a local science museum, in addition to some friendly competition of "bubble soccer" ,   fencing, and archery. US CHAMPIONSHIPS 2016 - CARUANA AND PAIKIDZE TRIUMPH Fabiano Caruana won the US Chess Championship held from April 13-26,2016 at Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis by a full point. Wesley So

Chess Digest ( Vol 1 Issue 7/MARCH 29-APRIL 4,2016) WORLD BMW I8 SUPER-CAR FOR SERGEY KARJAKIN?! As you have registered by now, Sergey Karjakin won the Candidates Tournament in Moscow, and went home richer by €95,000. But he also received a special prize from the car manufacturer BMW: the super sports car BMW i8, a plug-in hybrid that sells at around $140,000. Though, https://www.chess.com/  reports : "According to  ACP President GM Emil Sutovsky , the BMW i8 is only Karjakin's for one month." Sergey can now cruise the Russian highways at 250 kmh. PHILADELPHIA OPEN 2016 The 10th Annual Philadelphia Open was held over the Easter weekend from March 23-27, 2016, at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA .The Open Section was a 5-day 9-round Swiss tournament with FIDE norms possible. 87 players competed in this group.The 15-years old IM Ruifeng Li and 2014 Serbian champion  GM Aleksandar Indjic