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The splendid city of Lviv, situated in western Ukraine, will be hosting numerous chess events, part of the “Lviv Tradition 2015″ series.

The first stage took place from 27th January to 1st February, 2015. Replay the games here

Opening and Round One Report  (By Yochanan Afek)

As expected, the highest rated players in such a field already met fairly strong opposition as early as in the first round. While the first four favourites in the initial rating list (Navara, Vitiugov, Eljanov and Nepomniatchi) managed to score a first full point, the remaining two 2700+ players, Spain’s No.1 Vllejo-Pons and France No.2 Bacrot had to settle for a draw against former Israeli champion GM Yehuda Grunfeld and Swiss IM Richard Forster respectively.

The Chess Association of “West Azerbaijan” province on behalf of I.R.

Evgeny Tomashevsky defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the 8th round of the Tbilisi FIDE Grand Prix to increase his lead to full point ahead of the second-placed Dmitry Jakovenko.

Tomashevsky won in an extremely rare ending of 2 bishops + knight vs rook + 4 pawns.

The Final Four of College Chess for 2015, also known as The President’s Cup, is set to take place on 27-29th March at the New York Athletic Club.

The event is open to the top four U.S. schools from the most recent Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship (Pan-Am). It is run as a fixed-roster team round-robin tournament, scored by individual (not team) points.

The 2nd International Chess Tournament Memory of “Nebesna sotnya” is taking place on 21-22nd February, 2015, in Lutsk, a city in northwestern Ukraine.

The 3rd FIDE World Senior Team Chess Championship is taking place from 24th February to 4th March 2015 in Dresden, Germany.

The list of 44 teams is headed by England I (ELO average: 2570), Germany I (ELO average: 2482), Slovakia (ELO average: 2462).