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A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 23 to 27 July 2015 in Larnaca, Cyprus, by the Cyprus Chess Federation Arbiters’ Commission, in cooperation with the Cyprus Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 12 to 16 September 2015 in Dubai, UAE, by the UAE Chess Federation, in cooperation with the UAE Leaders Qualification Center and under the auspices of FIDE.

The Norway Chess 2015 super tournament started with a bang.

Vietnam are the overall champions of the 16th ASEAN+ Age-Group Championships 2015, a position they have held since the event started in Vietnam in 2000.

The country with the largest delegation won the most medals and the statistics are staggering. Vietnam’s 68 Golds are more than the second to eighth ranked countries combined and their total haul of 141 medals more than the rest combined!

From 2 to 6 June 2015 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was held in Singapore, organized by the Singapore Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Asian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The lecturer of the Seminar was IA Takis Nikolopoulos (GRE), Chairman of the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer was IA Ignatius Leong (SIN), FIDE Lecturer.

The language of the Seminar was English.

The Board meeting of the European Chess Union was held this weekend, 12-13 June, in the capital of Romania – the city of Bucharest.

The ECU Board meeting concluded with important decisions, which will be communicated by the next ECU Circular Letter.

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.