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UAE’s GM Salem AR Saleh in neck-and-neck battle with GM Bassem Amin of Egypt for the runner-up spot going into Wednesday’s final round

Tournament website/ LIVE games with analysis/ Standings and statistics

Norway Chess is a super-tournament established in 2013 and traditionally held in the Stavanger region, Norway.

The first edition in 2013 was a round robin event with ten players. The games were played in various venues: Sandnes, Aarbakke factory (Bryne), Hidle and Stavanger.

During the FIDE Grand Prix tournament in Khanty Mansiysk, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and President of the Spanish Chess Federation,

The 14th International Chess Festival Condom 2015 will take place from 11-18th July, at the Salle Pierre de Montesquiou, in Condom, France.

The games of the first round of the 46th finals of the All-Russian Chess Tournament White Rook will be played in Dagomys today.

For the first time since its inception, the finals have acquired international status. Aside from 328 young chess players from 75 Russian regions, foreign teams representing Israel, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia and Armenia are taking part in White Rook 2015.

The 2015 European-ACP Women’s Rapid Championship is taking place 1-3rd June at the Kutaisi City Hall in Kutaisi, Georgia.

The event is organized by the European Chess Union, Georgian Chess Federation and ACP. The playing format is 11-round Swiss tournament with the rate of play 15 min + 10 seconds increment per move.

Top-seed GM Bassem Amin of Egypt moves half a point behind Al-Sayed with two rounds to go

Tournament website/ LIVE games with analysis/ Standings and statistics

The winner of the FIDE Grand Prix’s final stage answers Eteri Kublashvili’s questions.

– Dmitry, congratulations on your successful performance in Khanty-Mansiysk. What does getting in the FIDE Grand Prix series mean for a chess player, generally speaking?

What is in common between chess and food? Nothing, at first glance. But in the new book called “How to feed a champion?” Maya Gelfand managed to combine the incompatible ideas.

“How to feed a champion?” is the title of the new cook book by Maya, the wife of renowned chess player Boris Gelfand.

30 short stories about his life, career, family and 30 meals connected to the themes. There is a lot of colorful, amusing and very appetizing illustrations.