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The Greek Chess Federation has responded positively to the request of the organization committee of Ikaros to integrate the Greek Open Championship 2015 with the 38th Ikaros International Tournament!

This, combined with the strong international field means that this year’s “Ikaros 2015″ will be an interesting and competitive event.

The first edition of the Lucky Dino Open was played 20-26 May in Sliema, Malta. The joint winners, a Swedish IM Roland Ekstroem and a Polish Candidate Master Piotr Tworzydło scored 7,5 out of 9 and were followed by a Romanian player Tiberiu-Petre Stanciu, who finished 1,5 points behind them.

Report by Piotr Kaim/ Photos by Filipina Thornton and Piotr Tworzydlo

On the occasion of the 28th Magistral Ciudad de Leon Tournament the FIDE Skills Management Committee (SMC) was invited to give a speech at the local Club de Prensa.

The Chairman and GM Roberto Mogranzini was invited by the tournament organizer IM Marcelino Sión Castro to introduce to the Spanish audience some of the ideas and theories basing the approach of getting together chess and business.

Singapore 2015 is arguably seeing the strongest ever ASEAN+ Age-Group Championships held so far with seedings, titles, and reputations counting for nothing especially in the higher ages categories.

In Open U-20 it is FM Tin Jingyao from Singapore, Dhulipalla Chandra Prasad from India and FM Bui Trong Hao from Vietnam who are all on 4/5 and in the lead.

The English Chess Federation and the Tradewise Insurance Company are pleased to announce that Tradewise have agreed generous funding to assist English chess.

Numerous and strong entries are setting the scene for an interesting tournament!

The preparations for the 38th edition of Ikaros International Chess Tournament, which will be held from 11th till 19th of July at Aghios Kiyrikos, Ikaria island, Greece, are well under way.

The HSG Open 2015 is taking place on 19-21st June, in Hilversum, in the Netherlands.

The event is a 6-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 110′ + 10″ and first prize in the amount of € 1250.

Top seed is Romanian player GM Levente Vajda (2558).

The ASEAN+ Age-Group Championships has completed three rounds of play and already that have been numerous surprises.

In the highly competitive Open U-20 section where both the IM title and a GM norm is the winners reward, it is Yoseph Theolifuc Taher from Indonesia who has the early lead with 3/3 ahead of IM Garcia Jan Emmanuel from the Philippines, Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad from India, and FM Bui Trong Hao from Vietnam.