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The Top Computer Chess Championship TCEC Season 8 is scheduled to start this August 21st. The world’s best computer chess software engines will compete through four stages and a final to decide the 2015 TCEC Grand Champion.

The 2015 Brasschaat Chess Tournament is taking place from August 15-23, in Ruiterhal, in the town park in the center of Brasschaat, Belgium.

The event is a 9-round Swiss with prize fund in the amount of 3,455 €.

Top seed is GM Levente Vajda (2572) from Romania.

Vitiugov Catches up with Leaders at Men’s Superfinal. Kosteniuk and Goriachkina Lead in Women’s Section

Round 6 of the Russian Championship Superfinal, the 68th for men and the 65th for women, took place in Chita on August 14.

The 23rd Poznan Chess Festival is taking place from August 10-17, 2015, in Poznan, a city in west-central Poland. The venue of play is Gmach Główny Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Poznaniu, Poznań, Al. Niepodległości 10.

The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′ + 30″.

Top seed is Polish player GM Jacek Tomczak (2596), while the first prize is 2,500 PLN.

The VMCG Chess Festival is taking place from August 15-23, 2015, at the 4****Hotel Seminaris, in Luneburg, Germany.

The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 moves + 30′ + 30″.

Top seed player is GM Sergei Ovsejevitsch (2588) from Ukraine.

The 1st International Tournament “Colossus Chess Cup of Rhodes 2015″ is scheduled to take place from September 1-9, at the luxurious Amathus Hotel & SPA*****, in Rhodes, Greece.

Tomashevsky, Artemiev on Top in Men’s Russian Championship. Lagno, Kosteniuk, Goriachkina Lead Women’s Section

The fifth round of the Russian Championship Superfinal, the 68th for men and the 65th for women, took place in Chita on August 13.

On this day, the Health Academy held a master class for 50 young chess players from Chita. Grandmaster Evgenij Miroshnichenko shared secrets of chess excellence during several hours.

The 2014 – 2015 Portuguese Top League is taking place from August 16th to August 22nd, 2015.

The event is a 10-team round-robin tournament with average rating of 2105. The teams participating in the championship are: AA Coimbra, Santoantoniense FC, GD Dias Ferreira, ADRC Mata de Benfica, GX Porto, AX Gaia, AEJ S. Joao de Madeira, CX Montemor-o-Velho, FC Barreirense and CX A2D.