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Sabacki Chess Club organized the “Cedomir Petrovic Memorial” rapid tournament on 7th December in Sabac, Serbia.

The tournament format was 9-round Swiss with the time control 15 minutes per player. 133 players, including 11 Grandmasters, took participation.

Top Serbian player GM Ivan Ivanisevic emerged clear winner with 7,5/9 points. Standings below.

Zadar Open 2013 is scheduled to take place on 15-21st December at the Falkensteiner Hotels & Resorts Borik in Zadar, Croatia.

The tournament is organized by the Croatian Chess Federation and Chess Federation Zadar and will be held in two Groups – Open A for players rated above 2200 FIDE and Open B for players rated U2300 FIDE.

The tournament format is 9-round Swiss. The total prize fund is 10,200 EUR, with 2200 EUR reserved for the winner of Open A and 500 EUR for the winner of Open B.

The Rostov Region Chess Federation organized Bondarevsky Memorial from 30th November to 8th December to mark 100 years since the birth of the legendary Grandmaster.

The tournament was held at the Chekhov chess club in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. 71 players competed.

Women’s Invitational Chess Tournament is part of London Chess Classic 2013 festival. The tournament is taking place 7-15 December. Participants are IM Irina Bulmaga (ROU), IM Dagne Ciuksyte (ENG), WIM Judith Fuchs (GER), WIM Veronica Foisor (ROU), WFM Sarah Hegarty (ENG), WGM Kruttika Nadig (ENG), and they play a double round robin event.

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The Moscow based Center for New Technologies “Digital” hosted the Battle of Generations match between GM Daniil Dubov (2641) and GM Alexei Shirov (2685) on 2-8th December.

Shirov was convincing in the classical games, winning four and drawing two for the overall 5-1 victory.

The match consisted of six games with the FIDE time control 90 min/40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec (from move one).

The 19th International Open Tournament “Villa de Navalmoral” was held on 5-8th December at the hotel Moya in Navalmoral de la Mata (Cáceres), Spain.

After seven rounds of play GM Namig Guliyev (Azerbaijan) and IM Vitali Koziak (Ukraine) shared the first place with 6,0 points each. Guliyev took the winner’s trophy on better tie-break.

The total prize fund was 12,300 EUR, with 3000 EUR reserved for the first place.

The chess club “Junior” from Rijeka, Croatia, celebrated its 20th anniversary with a rapid chess tournament on 8th December.

36 club members and friends participated in the 9-round Swiss event.

The 2nd Winter Sea Deluxe is set to take place from 2th to 6st January in Gabicce Mare, Italy, next to the Adriatic Sea.

The first edition had 132 participants and was won by the Hungarian Grandmaster Robert Ruck.

The playing venue is the old-fashioned Hotel Michelacci ****Superior, with SPA and rich meals, everything at 59 FB in double room. The closest airports to Gabicce are Rimini, Bologna and Ancona.

The 4th Annual Thanksgiving Open was held on 30th November to 1st December at the Chess Club & Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.

The event was held in three sections and over five rounds of Swiss system.

The Open section had 32 participants. IM Priyadharshan Kannappan of India (rated 2409) took a clear first place with 4,5/5 points.

The fantastic e3e5.com chess website celebrates 10th anniversary today. Exactly 3654 days ago, on the 8th of December 2003, the first article appeared on the website. It was dedicated to Emanuel Lasker and his little known article for “Новой Вечерней газеты” (New Evening Newspaper).