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The 5th Rapid Chess Championship of Kabardino-Balkaria was held on 8-9th March in Nalchik.

46 players aged 7 to 67 competed in the 9-round Swiss tournament with the time control 10 min + 5 sec.

Chaman Gedgafov (Baksan district) took a clear first place with 8,0/9 points. Second was David Temirkanov with 7,5 points, while third was Mazhmudin Karmov (both Nalchik) with 7,0 points.

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

Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy and Allsport Management are organizing the 2nd International Grandmasters Chess Tournament from 15-24th March at the Indian Council For Cultural Relations, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Kolkata-71, India.

The 19th Annual Mid-America Open will be held from March 13-15, 2015, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel St. Louis-Clayton, 7750 Carondelet Ave., St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

The event has 7 sections: Open, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500, Under 1300 and Under 1000. All sections have either 3-day (March 13-15) or 2-day (March 14-15) schedules to play in.

The tournament format is 5-round Swiss with the time control 40/110, SD/30, d10.

UT Dallas and a team of USA Junior All Stars will play a friendly match from 13th to 19th March. The tournament is a 10-Round Scheveningen System where each member of UT Dallas Team plays each member of the USA Junior All-Stars Team twice. Time Control is 90 min + 30 sec increment.

Live games with analysis will be daily on Chessdom.com with analysis by the top TCEC engines Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini.

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 16th Annual Pittsburgh Open was held from March 6-8, 2015, at the Wyndham Garden Pittsburgh Airport Hotel, One Industry Lane, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The event had 4 sections: Open, Under 2100, Under 1700 and Under 1300.

The main Open section gathered 36 participants. Four players shared the first place with 4,0/5 points each, but GM Sergey Erenburg took the bonus prize on best tie-break.

The Arab Chess Federation is going to organize an Internet based FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar, from 20 to 24 April 2015, under the auspices of FIDE.

The 2015 Spring Break UT Brownsville Grandmaster Tournament was held from 6-11th March at the Salon Cassia, Campus of the University of Texas at Brownsville, Texas, USA.

The event was a 10-player round robin with participants representing eight countries. The average elo of the field was 2465.

The Polish Chess Federation, under the auspices of the European Chess Union and Mr.