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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.

Grandmasters Martyn Kravtsiv (Ukraine) and Luka Paichadze (Georgia) concluded the campaign in the 8th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup with 8,0/10 points each. After breaking the tie Kravtsiv was awarded with the winner’s trophy.

The ECU Board Meeting will take place this week on 12-13 June, in the city of Bucharest, after the kind invitation of the Romanian Chess Federation.

The meeting will take place in the RIN Grand Hotel in Bucharest.

The traditional ČEZ Chess Trophy 2015 Festival is scheduled to take place from 12-16th June, 2015 at the marvelous Michna Palace on Kampa Island, in Prague, the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.

The traditional ČEZ Chess Trophy 2015 Festival is held from 12-16th June, 2015 at the marvelous Michna Palace on Kampa Island, in Prague, the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.

The highlight of the festival is a match of four games between World #14 David Navara (2751) and World #9 Wesley So (2778).