“Go play in the Arctic Chess Challenge in Tromsø!” That is an order given by Chessbase.com in a new article published today. The article is written by none other than Tromsø’s own Sven Wisløff Nilsen, a.k.a. ““, the man behind the well written from last year’s tournament. Richly illustrated, it gives a summary of the city and its surroundings, last year’s tournament and a preview of the coming event. The full article can be found here.

Europe Echecs has made an interesting interview in two parts with Morten Sand, the advisor for Sjakk Tromsø 2014, where he talks about the process of getting the chess Olympics to Tromsø in 2014. The interviews can be seen on Europe-echecs.com or on Tromsø 2014’s newly overhauled web pages.

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The organizing committee of the Chess Olympiad 2014 in Tromsø on April 30th delivered their bid for hosting the Olympics. The only other competitor seems to be the city of Albena, Bulgaria, even though there does not seem to be an official statement from FIDE about this yet.

You can read a press release about the Tromsø bid , or read the actual bid . In addition, Chessbase has issued a news article about the bidders.

At the same time, Tromsø is bidding to host the 2013  World Cup as a precursor to the Olympics.

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