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The Women’s World Chess Championship takes place on March 17 – April 7 in Sochi, Krasnaya Polyana, Estosadok, CS Galactica, Achipsinskaya street 12.

The Croatian Individual Women’s Chess Championship was held from 9th to 15th March, 2015, in Djakovo, a city in Croatia.

The 2015 edition of the traditional chess tournament Reykjavik Open is taking place from 10-18th March at the Harpa Conference Hall.

A total of 274 players from 37 countries, including 42 Grandmasters and 30 International Masters, are taking part in the event.

The 9th Tashkent Open – Memorial of Georgy Agzamov is held from 10th to 20th March, 2015, in hotel “Shodlik Palace”, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

The tournament is a 9-round Swiss with the time control 90 min + 30 sec increment from move one. The total prize fund is 20,000 US dollars.

The organization of the competition is carried out by the Uzbekistan Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Uzbekistan.

The Yessentuki Open is scheduled to take place from 20-30th March, 2015, at the hotel Solnechnaya in Yessentuki, Stavropol Krai, Russia.

The tournament format will be 9-round Swiss with the time control 90′+30”.

The tournament will consist of four sections:
- Group A, FIDE rated and open to all players
- Group B, open for youth players U11 and U13
- Group C, for amateurs and unrated players
- Group D, blitz tournament (23rd March)

The 2015 edition of the traditional chess tournament Reykjavik Open is taking place from 10-18th March at the Harpa Conference Hall.

A total of 274 players from 37 countries, including 42 Grandmasters and 30 International Masters, are taking part in the event.

Live games with analysis

Video courtesy of Vijay Kumar

Montenegro Chess Federation and “Vile Oliva” are organizing the International Open Chess Tournament “Petrovac 2015″ from 8-14th May.

64 seconds with Amy Lee, the woman behind Millionaire Chess

Wesley So is champion of the first Millionaire Open in Las Vegas

The Tajikistan Chess Federation has the honor to invite all National Chess Federations of Zone 3.4 affiliated with FIDE to participate in the Zone 3.4 Championships which will be held from 3rd-12th June, 2015, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Entitled to participate are players from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Top two finishers in the Men’s Zonal will qualify for the World Chess Cup 2015.

The Chess Championship of Russian Northwestern Federal District (Severo-Zapadny Federalny Okrug) was held from 2-10th March at the hotel “Saint Petersburg”.

Grandmaster Aleksandr Rakhmanov (Vologda region) emerged clear winner of the men’s championship with 7,5/9 points.