NM Oleg Chebotarev (RUS, Lipetzk) has won the rapid tournament (8 GM, 12 IM). The Master Open (25 GM, more than 40 IM and FM) and FIDE Open started 12.06 and it's an official ACP Tour 2006 tournament.

The festival is held for the 10th time in Russia.

Festival site: www.relex.ru/~xuser/voronezh_open

And here's a list of all countries that show up on my stats. Click on a link if you want to visit their national chess site.

Algeria,  Argentina,  Armenia,  Australia,  Austria,  Azerbaijan,  Bahamas,  Bahrain,  Belarus,  Belgium,  Bolivia,  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Brazil,  Brunei,  Darussalam,  Bulgaria,  Cameroon,  Canada,  Chile,  China,  Colombia,  Croatia,  Cuba,  Cyprus,  Czech Republic,  Denmark,  Dominican Republic,  Ecuador,  Egypt,  El Salvador,  Estonia,  Fiji,  Finland,  France,  Georgia,  Germany,  Greece,  Honduras,  Hong Kong,  Hungary,  Iceland,  India,  Indonesia,  Islamic Republic of Iran,  Ireland,  Israel,  Italy,  Japan,  Jordan,  Kazakhstan,  Republic of Korea,  Kuwait,  Kyrgyzstan,  Latvia,  Lebanon,  Lithuania,  Luxembourg,  Macedonia,  Malaysia,  Malta,  Mexico,  Moldova,  Republic of Morocco,  Namibia,  Netherlands,  Netherlands Antilles,  New Zealand,  Nicaragua,  Nigeria,  Norway,  Pakistan,  Panama,  Paraguay,  Peru,  Philippines,  Poland,  Portugal,  Puerto Rico,  Qatar,  Romania,  Russian Federation,  Saudi Arabia,  Senegal,  Singapore,  Slovakia,  Slovenia,  South Africa,  Spain,  Sri Lanka,  Sweden,  Switzerland,  Taiwan,  Thailand,  Tunisia,  Turkey,  Uganda,  Ukraine,  United Arab Emirates,  United Kingdom,  Uruguay,  Uzbekistan,  Venezuela,  Vietnam,  Virgin Islands U.S.,  Yugoslavia and Zambia.

I thank you all for playing online chess here at blubbie.com , downloading pgn files from tournaments or famous players, reading the latest news or perhaps reading some of my Utterly Boring Blog. But reading the utterly Boring Blog should only be done if you have absolutely nothing better to do..!

I particularly like seeing that so many of you enjoy the Daily Chess Problem. I like it too, it has become a favorite of mine.

Have fun!
blubbie

  (Here's my pagerank from mister Google. it's not so great but it's enough)

ps You can help me get to 120 countries by placing a link to blubbie.com on your website. Please pretty please :)