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The World Amateur Chess Championships is held in Porto Carras, Halkidiki, Greece on the northern coast of the Aegean Sea. The dates are 13 April (arrivals, technical meeting) to 22 April 2015 (departures).

The World Women’s Amateur Chess Championships is held in Porto Carras, Halkidiki, Greece on the northern coast of the Aegean Sea. The dates are 13 April (arrivals, technical meeting) to 22 April 2015 (departures).

The final statistics have been reported for the broadcasting of the FIDE Women’s World Championship held in Sochi between March 16 and April 5, 2015.

The City of Benasque, Spanish Chess Federation (FEDA) and FIDE Events’ Commission (EVE) are organizing a FIDE Seminar for International Organizers in Benasque (Huesca), Spain, from 3 to 5 July 2015.

Today was the single double round for the Thailand Open Championship 2015 which overnight increased to 194 players and with the Challengers with 105 participants starting has created a new record number of entries but 299 is just one short of the targeted 300!

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 18 to 25 September 2015 in Beirut, Lebanon, by the Lebanese Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

A youngster from Russia and a grizzled veteran from the US have wrested the lead after winning their respective seventh-round matches Sunday night at the 17th Dubai Open Chess Championship – Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup at Dubai Chess and Culture Club.

The World Women’s Team Championship is organized by the Chinese Chess Federation and FIDE from 18-29th April, 2015, in Chengdu, China.

After two weeks of intense competition, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL) crowned Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, 27, the 2015 U.S. Chess Champion and Grandmaster Irina Krush, 31, the 2015 U.S. Women’s Chess Champion.

Krush hails from Brooklyn, N.Y. and Nakamura calls Saint Louis home.

The win is familiar territory for Krush, who claimed her fourth-consecutive title in the women’s tournament. This was Nakamura’s first return to the U.S. Championship since winning in 2012.