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The 14th International Chess Festival Condom 2015 will take place from 11-18th July, at the Salle Pierre de Montesquiou, in Condom, France.

The games of the first round of the 46th finals of the All-Russian Chess Tournament White Rook will be played in Dagomys today.

For the first time since its inception, the finals have acquired international status. Aside from 328 young chess players from 75 Russian regions, foreign teams representing Israel, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia and Armenia are taking part in White Rook 2015.

The 2015 European-ACP Women’s Rapid Championship is taking place 1-3rd June at the Kutaisi City Hall in Kutaisi, Georgia.

The event is organized by the European Chess Union, Georgian Chess Federation and ACP. The playing format is 11-round Swiss tournament with the rate of play 15 min + 10 seconds increment per move.

Top-seed GM Bassem Amin of Egypt moves half a point behind Al-Sayed with two rounds to go

Tournament website/ LIVE games with analysis/ Standings and statistics

The winner of the FIDE Grand Prix’s final stage answers Eteri Kublashvili’s questions.

– Dmitry, congratulations on your successful performance in Khanty-Mansiysk. What does getting in the FIDE Grand Prix series mean for a chess player, generally speaking?

What is in common between chess and food? Nothing, at first glance. But in the new book called “How to feed a champion?” Maya Gelfand managed to combine the incompatible ideas.

“How to feed a champion?” is the title of the new cook book by Maya, the wife of renowned chess player Boris Gelfand.

30 short stories about his life, career, family and 30 meals connected to the themes. There is a lot of colorful, amusing and very appetizing illustrations.

The May Lviv Tradition (IM Group) round-robin tournament took place from 26th May to 1st June, 2015, at the Hotel Nton, in the splendid city of Lviv, situated in western Ukraine. The event was a 12-player single round-robin tournament with tempo of play was 90′ + 30″.

Indian player IM Upadhyaya Anwesh was convincingly first with 9/11 points after winning seven games and drawing four.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his greetings to the finalists in the Belaya Ladya tournament.

The text is published on the official site of the Russian President.

The players are beginning to settle down at the 11th Asian Schools Chess Championships 2015 with several favourites beginning to emerge after three rounds of play over two days including today’s double round.