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ECU to hold Hybrid Qualification for FIDE World Cup 2021 In the course of the 2nd ECU Board meeting on February 20, 2021, several important decisions regarding the European Qualification system for the World Championship Cycle have been made. European Championship 2021 will be held in Reykjavik between August and September 2021, being a part of the next World Championship Cycle (FIDE World Cup 2023). The exact dates will be announced by the Icelandic Chess Federation the following days.   The European Open Chess Championship 2022 will be organized in Podčetrtek, Slovenia from March 27th (a...

Hit Europe’s Open Road With spring—and, hopefully, a spate of vaccine-induce border openings—just around the corner, I thought now would be a good time to round up the best road trips in Europe. Although many European countries are famous for trips by train and even by river boat, the fact is that having your own set of wheels gives you unbridled freedom to explore the continent. Moreover, even if you are fully vaccinated by the next time you touch down in Paris or Rome, “social distancing” is an attractive concept during Europe’s increasingly hot summers. Whether you want to circ...

Carlsen & Firouzja back for Norway Chess in May Magnus Carlsen will be out to defend his Altibox Norway Chess title just 7 months after the 2020 tournament ended, with the organisers planning to return to a 10-player global event in May with the likes of Ding Liren and Wesley So back in Stavanger. There are more World Champions in action, with Anatoly Karpov set to play in the Tepe Sigeman & Co. Chess tournament in April, Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik to play in Dortmund in July, and we can dream of a return for Garry Kasparov as Chess9LX and the US Champs have been announced for Saint Lou...

By David Kaminski-Morrow2021-02-24T07:52:00+00:00 Canada’s Conair Group has received the first in a batch of former Flybe Bombardier Q400s due for conversion into aerial firefighters. The turboprop – registered G-KKEV, and originally delivered to the UK operator in 2008 – is one of 11 acquired by Conair for the modification, following the collapse of Flybe a year ago. Conair will convert the aircraft, flown to Canada via Reykjavik, into Q400AT air tankers at its Abbotsford facility in British Columbia. The modification will take around 75 days, the company states, and will begin this ...

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