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Daily news broadcast featuring GM Kenny Solomon and many more elite chess players. Hosted by Tania Sachdev at the 2015 Tradewise Gibraltar Open Chess Tournament.

New In Chess magazine has started a new instructional series with Indian GM Parimarjan Negi. In issue 2015#1 he tours chess history and summarises the style of World Champion Magnus Carlsen:

The International Chess Open Graz 2015 will take place on 13-20th February 2015 at the beautiful and modern Hotel Spa Novapark in Graz, the second-larges

Guliskhan Nakhbayeva from Kazakhstan started with three victories and is one of the leaders of the Tournament B – Women’s Cup of Russia stage. Now everybody, who wanted to find out more about this chess player from Kazakhstan, will have such a chance.

Q: Guliskhan, congratulations on a great start! How can you describe your first three games?

Pentala Harikrishna and Irina Krush talk through the strategy behind a couple of their memorable wins.

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Susan Polgar, Chairperson of FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess (WOM), interviewed Amy Lee, the woman behind Millionaire Chess, an instant success with the chess community.

The first round of the GRENKE Chess Classic 2015 was played on Monday at the Kulturhaus LA8 in Baden-Baden. All four games were drawn – replay with analysis.

The event continues until 9th February.

The leader of the Student-Grandmasters’ Cup of RSSU in Memoriam of Alexander Pochinok came to Moscow from the distant Indonesia.

On January 31 under the chair of FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the meeting of the International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) was held in Moscow.

The Presidents of the international federations of bridge, go, chess and draughts attended the meeting. The Deputy Minister of Sports of Russia, the Olympic Champion Pavel Kolobkov greeted the guests.

The 2nd edition International Prize from His Majesty King Mohammed VI takes place from 28th January to 5th February, 2015, at the Sacré Coeur Cathedral, in the splendid city of Casablanca, situated on the western part of Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean.