Σκακιστικά νέα

The 122nd Scottish Championship and International Open will take place at the Tom Fleming Centre in Stewart’s Melville College in Edinburgh on July 11-19, 2015.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 16 to 19 April 2015 in Eastern Region, Saudi Arabia, by the Saudi Chess Association and under the auspices of FIDE.

A press conference dedicated to the upcoming 2015 Russian Superfinal Championships was held on 1st April in Chita, with Russian Chess Federation CEO Mark Glukhovsky and Zabaykalsky Krai Minister of Sport Roman Larionov attending.

Irish Chess Union (ICU) development officer Darko Polimac reports the good news that the European Chess Union are helping to sponsor the 2015 Glorney and Faber cups with 5000 euro in support.

The 2015 O2C Doeberl Cup is set to take place from 2-6th April at the University House, 1 Balmain Cres, in Canberra, Australia.

The Doeberl Cup is the longest running weekend chess event in Australia, taking place every year since 1963.

Grandmaster Teimour Radjabov was forced to withdraw from the 2nd Vugar Gashimov Memorial for health reasons, Extratime.az reports quoting the tournament press service.

The 2015 edition of O2C Doeberl Cup is taking place from 2-6th April, 2015, at the University House in Canberra, the capital of Australia.

The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′/ 40 + 30′ + 30″, open to all players with FIDE titles or untitled players with minimum 1900 Elo rating.

GM Loek Van Wely (NED) 2663 heads the field of 70 payers from 9 different countries.

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The March “Lviv Tradition” (IM Group) was held from 24-29th March 2015, at the Hotel Nton, in the splendid city of Lviv, situated in western Ukraine.

The event was a 10-player tournament with tempo of play 90′ + 30″.

Indian IM Upadhyaya Anwesh emerged a clear winner with 6,5/9 points, leaving the nearest followers half a point behind.

The tie-breaks of the FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship Semifinals were played in SCC Galactica (Sochi, Krasnaya Polyana) on March 31.

The matches Pia Cramling (Sweden) – Natalia Pogonina (Russia) and Harika Dronavalli (India) – Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine) continued with quicker time controls following 1-1 draws after the first two classical games.

Pia Cramling was eliminated in the semifinal of the FIDE Women’s World Championship, but is still happy with her overall performance and the choice of the venue.

With emotions still running high minutes after finishing the tie-break, Pia started talking about the games even before we had a chance to start the recorder.