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Happy birthday to Viswanathan Anand, one of the greatest legends of chess! We wish him all the best!

Viswanathan Anand was the World Blitz Chess champion in 2000, was the FIDE World Rapid Chess Champion in 2003. He held the highest title in chess – World Champion – from 2000 to 2002 and from 2007 to 2012. Next year he will be competing again for it, starting with the Candidates Chess 2016 in Moscow. Today’s special pack is dedicated to him and to all his chess fans. It includes:

London Chess Classics 6th round has concluded and with only 3 rounds left until the winner is decided, the winner is far from clear. An exciting set of games brought us these standings:

Vassily Ivanchuk from Ukraine is the winner of the ACP Masters rapid super tournament that ended on Thursday in the Israeli city of Ashdod. The Ukraine No.1 beat Frenchman Etienne Bacrot in the final match 2.5: 0.5 to take home the title and the 10.000 $ first prize.

Thursday saw the return of the Grand Chess Tour, with the identity of this year’s winner still very much in the balance. With three rounds to go, almost anyone could still win both the London Chess Classic and overall title.

The first result to come in today was yet another draw in a Berlin, this time in the game between Vachier-Lagrave and Caruana.

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Two semi-final matches of the ACP Masters were held on Wednesday in the Israeli city of Ashdod. The winner of the preliminary group B, Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk met the runner-up in the preliminary group A, Russian Ian Nepomnianchtchi.

The 27th Villa de Roquetas International Open 2016 tournament will take place from January 2nd to January 6th 2016.