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While the London Chess Classic players got to enjoy a rest day, there was still a lot of chess action going on elsewhere at Olympia Conference Centre, most notably with the conclusion of the inaugural British Knockout Championship.

“Greatness comes from within. From pitting you against you,” says the new Porsche 911 commercial, featuring Magnus Carlsen, Maria Sharapova, and Muhammad Ali. The ad goes on, “Onto the greatest version of you. Through the magic of film, we get to see what would happen if Muhammad Ali stepped in the ring against himself. If Maria Sharapova faced off against herself. And if Magnus Carlsen sat across a board from himself. All to help tell the story of a new 911 being born.”

The Paramount Database is a unique historical collection of annotated chess games which will serve as a premium quality database for daily use by competitive players.

Following two days of short, fierce and close battles the preliminary groups of the ACP Masters in Ashdod has finally reached a clear conclusion with no need for further tie-breakers.

Here are the results in group A:

The 2015 International Alcossebre Masters Chess Tournament is taking place from December 16-20, in Alcossebre, a seaside village, located on the Costa del Azahar, Spain.

The event is a 10 player single round-robin tournament with tempo of play 90′ + 30″.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 5 to 10 February 2016 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, by the Brazilian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 9 to 10 January 2016 in Prague, Czech Republic, by the AVE-KONTAKT s.r.o. and the Czech Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.