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After three editions held in Portuguese capital Lisbon, the National Masters and Honor Tournaments returned north, taking place in Matosinhos on June 7-13th, 2015. Both events were played in a 10-player single round-robin format.

The 2015 Dutch Individual Men’s Chess Championship is taking place from July 4 through July 12, in the Manor Hotel, in Amsterdam, the capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The 2015 Dutch Individual Women’s Chess Championship is taking place from July 4 through July 12, in the Manor Hotel, in Amsterdam, the capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Stockholms Schacksällskap, one of the world’s oldest chess clubs, celebrates its 150 years jubilee with a grand tournament at the venerable Scandic Hotel Hasselbacken**** in the heart of The Royal Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden.

Former world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk and world championship semi-finalist Harika Dronavalli are leading the field of the 1st FIDE World Online Women Blitz Championship 2015 that is starting from 18th June on the official FIDE Online platform.

We sat down with Singapore’s latest IM Tin Jingyao, winner of the ASEAN+ Age-Group Championships U-20 Open soon after he dropped to the Open U-16 category for the Rapid Chess competition where he picked up yet another individual success and also helped Singapore to the Open U-16 Rapid team Gold.

PL: Hi Jingyao, Thanks for taking the time to talk to us and congratulations on winning yet another Gold Medal! Let’s start by asking if this event is your most memorable.

The 19th Voronezh International Chess Festival 2015 is currently in progress at the Voronezh Chess Club, in Voronezh, Russian Federation.

Igor Glek is a Russian chess Grandmaster who now competes for Germany. As well as this, he is a chess theorist, a coach, the President of the World League of Chess Tournaments and a co-founder of the ACP.

The Armenian Chess Federation is organizing an international open chess tournament, dedicated to the memory of GM Karen Asrian, which will take place on June 15-25, 2015, in the prominent resort town of Jermuk.

All interested chess players can participate in the 9-round Swiss tournament. GM Karen Grigoryan was the winner of the 7th Asrian Memorial.

The 3rd International Chess Festival Cesme Open 2015 is held from 15-20th June, at the Cesme Aya Haralambos Church, in Cesme, a splendid coastal Turkish city, situated near the largest metropolitan center in Turkey’s Aegean Region, Izmir.

Turkish Chess Federation and Cesme Municipality organize the event in a 9-round Swiss format with the hefty prize fund in total of 33,500 TL (nearly 12,000 €). The tempo of play is 90′ + 30″.

The 45th Rilton Cup Chess Festival is scheduled to take place from 27th December, 2015 to 5th January, 2016, in Clarion Hotel Stockholm, in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic region.