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Due to security reasons and travel advice/bans published by a number of countries FIDE Presidential Board, met in Athens on 6 December 2015, decided to cancel the World Schools Chess Championship 2016 in Sousse, Tunisia. FIDE has awarded to Tunisia the option to organise the respective Championship on 2018.

The 18th International Chess Festival “Citta di Padova” is taking place from December 13-20, 2015, in Padova, Italy.

The event is a 9-round Swiss FIDE tournament for players above 1800 Elo rating.

68 players are vying for the first prize in the amount of 1,500 EUR. Top seed is Bulgarian chess player GM Kiril Georgiev 2627.

The European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship 2015 will start in two days in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.

Grandmaster Denis Khismatullin from Neftekamsk took the winner’s trophy in the final tournament of the 2015 Russian Rapid Grand Prix that was held from 13-15th December in Khanty-Mansiysk.

16 players competed in the round robin tournament with the time control 15′+10”.

Sheikh Russel Memorial Sporting Club  became unbeaten champion in the WALTON Premier Division Chess League 2015 sponsored by the renowned and famous electrical, electronics, automobiles and home appliances Manufacturer Company WALTON group and

The 25th ITT Millonario de Navidad Bogotá is set to take place from 18-22nd December, 2015, at the Centro Comercial Outlet Factory in Bogotá, Colombia.

The event is organized by the Liga de ajedrez de Bogota and Club Deportivo Sicoopweb and is part of a Christmas Chess Festival sponsored by the Seguros del Estado.

The 9-round Swiss tournament with accelerated pairings will have 147 participants from 14 countries. Full list below.

Match of Friendship, a scholastic chess match between Russia and China dedicated to the 70-year anniversary of winning the 2nd World War, ended in China on December 14.

23 orphans from boarding houses of Sverdlovsk Region took part in a simul given by 2014 Russian champion Igor Lysyj.

The event took place in Sila Voli mall in Ekaterinburg, and was organized by Svoi Deti charity fund, Sila Voli management, and Sverdlovsk Region Chess Federation sponsored by Penetron Russia group of companies.

The World Amateur Chess Championships 2016 will be held from 18-28th April, 2016, in Halkidiki, Greece on the northern coast of the Aegean Sea.

The games will take place in the conference center of 5-star Anthemus Sea Resort on the Sithonia peninsula of Halkidiki, 95 km south Thessaloniki airport. Anthemus Sea is an excellent holiday destination, surrounded by a sandy beach on the crystal clear waters of the Aegean Sea.

The Semifinal of the 2015 Iranian Chess Championship is taking place from December 13-19, in Rasht, the largest city of Iran’s Caspian Sea coast.

The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′ + 30″.

Top seed is GM Pouria Darini (2500).