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Grandmaster Slobodan Martinović – Šoća suddenly passed away on 10th January at the age of 70.

Martinović was a social and likeable person, respected trainer and excellent team player. Grandmaster since 1978, he was one of the symbols of golden chess era in Smederevska Palanka.

In the recent years he played for ŠK “Niš” and last year he represented “Crvena Zvezda”. Only two weeks ago he played in the Pozarevac Open Championship.

The European Individual Women Chess Championship will take place in Georgia from 18th to 31st of May 2015.

The 81st Belarus Individual Chess Championship for men is taking place from 12th to 23rd January 2015.

The University of Economics (UE) Katowice organized the AMP Chess Tournament 2015 on 10-12th January 2015 at the Park Hotel Diamond**** in Zabrze, Poland.

The 2014 Croatian Individual Chess Championship for men is taking place on 11-21st January 2015 in Opatija, a resort town in western Croatia, situated on the Adriatic Sea.

The event is a 12-player round-robin tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 + 30′ + 30″.

The prize fund in the amount of 10,000 € will be awarded as follows: 2,800 €/ 2,200 €/ 1,700 €/ 1,300 €/ 1,100 €/ 900 €.

Tamil Nadu talent M Kunal crashed through the defenses of GM Sabino Brunello of Italy on a tough second round for higher rated Grandmasters in the 13^th Parsvnath International Grandmasters chess tournament now underway here at Ludlow Castle sports complex.

Chess Club “Bošnjaci” organized the 20th jubilee edition of Bosnjaci Open 2015 from 3rd to 9th January, 2015, in Bošnjaci, eastern Croatia.

On Friday Januari 9, 2015 during the official opening of the 77th edition of the TataSteel chess tournament, TataSteel Chess and Chessity presented a new partnership to bring chess to the youth of today.

Chess Times is the new pdf and pgn magazine available in the Chessdom shop.

Tata Steel Challengers 2015 will have daily live games coverage on Chessdom.com. The broadcast will be with a triple engine analysis by the newly crowned medalists of the Top Computer Chess Championship TCEC - Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini.