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With even late entries closed and the official start lists published, barring missed flights and no shows, the 11th Asian Schools Chess Championships to be held from 30 May to 8 June 2015 in Singapore is all set to go and welcome 365 players from 20 countries.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 3 to 8 August 2015 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, by the Russian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 6 to 9 June 2015 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by the Saudi Chess Association in cooperation with the Asian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The 19th Voronezh International Chess Festival 2015 will be held from 10-20th June at the Voronezh Chess Club, in Voronezh, Russian Federation.

Lowest-seeded Libyan player scores win

The fancied bets asserted their supremacy to prevent any major upset during the opening round of the 3rd Arab Elite Chess Championship – Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Cup, the most prestigious individual chess tournament in the region, Wednesday night at the Sheikh Saeed Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Hall of the Dubai Chess & Culture Club.

UAE’s GM Salem A.R Saleh and FM Saeed Ishaq to compete against 14 of the region’s best players

The third edition of the Arab Elite Chess Championship – Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Cup opens today with 16 players from 15 Arab countries vying for the most prestigious individual chess title in the region. The competition kicks off at 6 pm at the Sheikh Saeed Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Hall of the Dubai Chess and Culture Club.

The 3rd Arab Elite Chess Championship – Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Cup is taking place from 27th May to 3rd June, 2015, at the Sheikh Saeed Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Hall of the Dubai Chess and Culture Club.

Moscow, 27 May 2015 – Andrey Filatov, president of the Russian Chess Federation and the founder of Art Russe, has been presented with an award from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for his contribution to the international culture cooperation and for his efforts to preserve historical heritage.The ‘Five Continents’ commemorative medal award ceremony took place on the evening of 26 May 2015, at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris as part of the interna

The May Lviv Tradition (IM Group) round-robin tournament is taking place from 26th May to 1st June, 2015, at the Hotel Nton, in the splendid city of Lviv, situated in western Ukraine.

The event is a 12-player single round-robin tournament, valid for FIDE rating and norms. The tempo of play is 90′ + 30″ and the average Elo rating is 2276.