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The Chess Club Brda, City of Split and Croatian Chess Federation are organizing the 5th Split Chess Open 2015 on 9-16th August at Hotel Zagreb in Split, Croatia.

The tournament system is 9-rounds Swiss and the total prize fund is 8500 EUR.

Among the 176 registered players from 20 countries there are 11 Grandmasters and 18 International Masters.

For the first time, Suwon, Korea, hosted the World Mind Sports Fair 2015. The venue – none other than the Gymnasium of the Suwon Sports Complex which also includes the famous Suwon Football Club Stadium and is a National Sports Training Centre.

GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly of India and IM Lin Chen of China beat their respective opponents to share the lead with 4.5 points each after 5 rounds of the Asian Continental Chess Championships 2015 at the Hilton Hotel****

The 6th International Terre degli Elimi Tournament was organized this summer by Alessandro Monaco and his chess club “Amici della Scacchiera” (Chessboard Friends) on the west side of the Sicily island in Erice, a tourist pearl of Sicily.

The Superfinals of the 68th Men’s Russian Chess Championship and the 65th Women’s Russian Chess Championship will take place between 8 and 21 August in the city of Chita.

The Asian Youth Chess Championships being held in Suwon, Korea from 3-11 August 2015 has now passed the halfway mark, with Open and Girls U-16, U14, U-12, U-10 and U-10 categories all reaching the sixth from nine rounds and Open and Girls U-18 reaching the fifth from seven rounds.

The Asian Continental Chess Championships 2015 are currently in progress in Al Ain, UAE.

Tournament website/ Men’s Tournament LIVE games/ Women’s Tournament LIVE games

Porto Carras aerial view

A FIDE Seminar for International Organizers will be held from 2-4 November, 2015, in Porto Carras, Halkidiki, Greece.

From 23 to 26 July, 2015, a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Larnaca, Cyprus, by the Cyprus Chess Federation, under auspices of FIDE.

The venue of the Seminar was the Culture Center of St. Lazarus Church, in Larnaca.

The lecturer was IA Panagiotis Nikolopoulos (GRE), Chairman of the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer was FA Paris Klerides (CYP).

14 people from Cyprus and Iran participated in the Seminar.

The Asian Continental Chess Championships 2015 are currently in progress in Al Ain, UAE.

Tournament website/ Men’s Tournament LIVE games/ Women’s Tournament LIVE games