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The Australian Chess Championship 2016 will be held in the Fitzroy Town Hall, Melbourne, from the 2nd of January to the 12th of January.

The event is a 11 round swiss tournament with a $14000 prize fund. The tournament presence will be 34 players – 2 GMs and 14 IMs will be part of the chess spectacle. 

The Russian Rapid Final 2015 is taking place from December 12-16, in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia.

The event is a 16-player single round-robin tournament with prize fund in the amount of 1,200,000 RUB.

Top seed is GM Sergey Rublevsky (2729).

Official website/ Standings and statistics

The 7th Penang Heritage City International Chess Open 2015 took place from December 7-12, at RedRock Hotel, in Penang, Malaysia.

The event was a 9-round Swiss open with tempo of play 90 + 30″ which gathered 119 players from 17 different countries.

GM Andrei Volokitin is the 2015 Chess Champion of Ukraine.

The 2nd Sunway Sitges International Chess Festival is taking place from December 12-20, 2015, in Sitges, Barcelona, Spain.

The event is a 9-round Swiss open tournament with prize fund in total of 19,700 € and 2,000 € reserved for the winner.

Top seed is GM Julio Granda Zuniga (2685) from Peru.

GM Klaus Bischoff (2494) wins the 86th German Championship title after tiebreakers. The event took place in the Hermann-Neuberger sports school in Saarbrücken. It was 9 round swiss event with 36 players.

The Russian-Chinese chess tournament Match of Friendship 2015 will take place on December 13-15 in Shanghai.

The European Rapid Chess Championship is taking place on December 19-20, 2015, at Sports Palace in Minsk, Belarus.

The event is an 11-round Swiss FIDE rapid open tournament with prize fund in the amount of EUR 20,120 with EUR 4,000 reserved for the winner.

The preliminary list of players includes a total of 810 participants.

The European Blitz Chess Championship is taking place on December 18, 2015, at Sports Palace in Minsk, Belarus.

The event is an 11-round Swiss FIDE blitz open tournament with prize fund in the amount of EUR 10,300 with EUR 2,000 reserved for the winner.

A total of 680 participants have already subscribed for the tournament.