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The Latvian Chess Federation held the 5th Vladimir Petrov Memorial on 5-6th March, 2016, at the Jurmala City museum in Jurmala, Latvia.

The main Tournament A was a 12-round Swiss with the time control 15′+5” and 129 players in the field.

The Reykjavik Open 2016 will be held for the 31st time from 8-16th March, 2016, in Harpa, the 28.000 sqm. concert hall, in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The tournament format is 10-round Swiss with the time control 90 min/40 moves+30 min+30 sec/move 1. Draw offers are not allowed before move 30.

246 players are registered to take part, among them being four members of the 2700-club. Full list below.

The top prizes are EUR 5000/2000/1250/800/600 etc

The first European Chess Union Board meeting for 2016 was organized in Lviv, Ukraine on 1st and 2nd March, after the kind invitation of the Ukrainian and Lviv Regional Chess Federations.

The meeting took place under excellent conditions in the hotel Leopolis in the center of Lviv. The President of the Ukrainian Chess Federation Mr. Viktor Kapustin opened the meeting and welcomed the ECU Board in Lviv.

The 14th Chess Festival Sagaalgan 2016 was held on 4-6th March at the Buddhist University in Ivolginsky datsan, near Ulan-Ude in the Russian Republic of Buryatia.

The 13-round rapid tournament with the time control 15′+10” was a stage of the Rapid Grand Prix of Russia. An impressive number of 568 players participated in the single section.

The Norway Chess 2016, sponsored by Altibox, is scheduled to take place in Stavanger from April 18-30. It is going to be a ten player single round robin event.

Chessdom.com is preparing large coverage live of the most important FIDE event of the first half of the year – the Candidates Chess 2016.

Candidate Chess 2016 is starting soon in Moscow with the participation of Anand, Caruana, Nakamura, Karjakin, Svidler, Topalov, Giri, and Aronian in a battle to determine the challenger of Magnus Carlsen for the Wor

The 16th International Chess Tournament “Mediterranean Flower” is taking place from March 6-12, 2016, in the city of Rijeka, Croatia.

The 2016 Vladimir Petrov Memorial started yesterday with a blitz tournament in the Amber Beach resort (Jaunkemeri), Latvia.

119 players competed in the 11-round tournament with time control 3′+3”.

Ukrainian junior Olexandr Bortnyk took a clear first place with 9 points, half a point ahead of the local star Igor Kovalenko. Full standings below.

The never ending battle, the Varsity Chess Match between Oxford and Cambridge, is going to take place today March 5th 2016. Games start at 13:30 CET (12:30 local time) and will be live on Chessdom.com with triple engine computer analysis.

This is the 134th edition of the event! Last event finished draw and you can replay the games here