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The Gibraltar Tradewise Festival 2015 is underway. Enjoy the photo report from the Battle of the Sexes Match, Round 6 and Tormund Blikra Vea Guitar Recital, kindly provided by John Saunders!

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Daily news broadcast featuring Irina Krush, Hikaru Nakamura, Elisabeth Pähtz, Veselin Topalov and many more elite chess players. Hosted by Tania Sachdev at the 2015 Tradewise Gibraltar Open Chess Tournament.

The Baden-Baden Chess Centre (Schachzentrum Baden-Baden) is holding the GRENKE Chess Classic 2015 from 2nd to 9th February, 2015.

The Tradewise Batte of the Sexes takes place on 1st February, 2015, in the Caleta Hotel, in Gibraltar.

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Daily news broadcast featuring the President of The English Chess Federation Dominic Lawson and some of the top players including Antoaneta Stefanova and Veselin Topalov during the 2015 Tradewise Gibraltar Open Chess Tournament.

Francisco Vallejo Pons has come to play in Moscow Open for the first time. The Spanish Grandmaster told the correspondent of the official website about his interest for Russia and his game of the first round.

The Opening Ceremony of the Moscow Open 2015 – 11th RSSU Cup was held Saturday in the assembly hall of the Russian State Social University. Organizers and honored guests congratulated the participants on the start of the grand chess festival.

The 33rd International Chess Open in the Principality of Liechtenstein will take place on 8-16th May, 2015, at the Gemeindesaal Triesen.

The tournament will be held under the aegis of S.D. Erbprinz Alois von und zu Liechtenstein.

The prizes in the main Open event will be: 1st – CHF 2’000, 2nd – CHF 1’500, 3rd – CHF 1’200, 4th – CHF 1’000, 5th – CHF 800, 6th – CHF 700, 7th – CHF 600, 8th – CHF 500, 9th – CHF 400, 10th – (until 10th Hort-System) CHF 300, 11th to 20th – (ranking) CHF 200.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 12 to 16 February 2015 in Luang Prabang, Laos, by the National Chess Federation of Laos, in cooperation with the Asian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The February 2015 FIDE Top-100 Players Lists are up and Magnus Carlsen is still the highest rated player with Elo rating 2865 (three points more since January FIDE Rating List).