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Russian Grandmaster (GM) Vladimir Fedoseev won the champion’s cup at the Dubai Open Blitz Chess Tournament, held during the free day of the 17th Dubai Open Chess Tournament – Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Cup last Friday.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 24 to 27 June 2015 in Silver Lake – Veliko Gradiste, Serbia, by the Central Serbia Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The 19th Voronezh International Chess Festival 2015 will be held from 10-21st June at the Voronezh Chess Club, F.Engels str. 34, in Voronezh, Russian Federation.

The festival program includes following events:

1. Chess 960 (Fischer chess) – 10.06 (Wednesday). Start at 11:00. 7 rounds swiss, 15 minutes + 3 seconds per move.

2. Rapid tournament – 11.06 (Thursday). Start at 10:15. 9 rounds swiss, 15 minutes + 2 seconds per move.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was held in Hammamet, Tunisia, from 30th March to 2nd April 2015, organized by the Tunisia Chess Federation, in cooperation with Africa Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The venue of the Seminar was the African Queen Hotel in Hammamet.

The Seminar was held concurrently with the FIDE Zone 4.1 Championships.

From 12 to 15 February 2015 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Luang Prabang, Laos, by the National Chess Federation of Laos, in cooperation with the Asian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The Lecturer was IA Casto Abundo (PHI), Asian Chess Federation Executive Director and FIDE Lecturer, and Assistant Lecturer was John Vilavane, Gen. Secretary of National Chess Federation of Laos.

The lectures were in the English language.

Modern Chess, the new online chess magazine in pdf and pgn, is now published. Subscribers are already receiving the files in their mailbox.

The lead pack has been narrowed down to three after four gruelling rounds, even as English Grandmaster (GM) David Howell, the highest-ranked player, continued to stamp his class in the  17th Dubai Open Chess Tournament – Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Cup Thursday night at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club.

A chess school by one of the world’s leading Grandmasters, Sergey Karjakin, was inaugurated at the ceremony in the conference hall of the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU).

The Tunisian Chess Federation hosted the 2015 FIDE Zone 4.1 Individual Chess Championships from 25th March to 1st April in Hammamet, Tunisia.

28 players of 4 countries gathered for the event held under the auspices of the African Chess Confederation (ACC).

This is a video of GM Davorin Kuljasevic, where he previews the Nakamura – Robson game in the US Chess Championship. He makes detailed analysis of one of the emblematic encounters between the two players. The game is a Sicilian Dragon with rare g4. Robson misses a forced draw being an exchange down, and the game ends with a beautiful checkmate combination.