Grandmaster Melikset Khachiyan, which represents the United States, became the winner of US OPEN Tournament. The tournament has been held 45 times in Los Angeles. According uschess.org, this year US OPEN was attended by 200 chess players. Melikset Khachiyan scored 6 out of possible 8 points and became the winner. International master Andranik Matikozyan representing Armenia with the same result took the 2nd place.

The city of Stillwater (Oklahoma, USA) hosted an international chess tournament attended by 32 players. FIDE Master Movses Movsisyan (USA), who collected 5.5 points out of possible 7, took the 2nd place. Movses Movsisyan is 1 point behind the tournament leader Conrad Holt (FIDE Master).

12 chess players take part in the 76th Brazilian chess championship in the city of Americana, from December 2 to 12. After the 7th round the international master Grigor Sevak Mekhitarian scored 5.5 points and took the second place. He is behind Giovanni Veskovi by 0,5 points. 4 rounds are still to be held before the end of the tournament.

Grandmaster Sergey Kasparov (Belarus) in the Portuguese town of Figueira da Foz took 6th place among 46 participants of the open chess tournament. He earned 6 points. The winner of the tournament was Anton Kovalyov (Argentina) with 7 points.