Σκακιστικά νέα

Romanian WGM Mihaela Sandu (2300) takes the lead at the European Individual Women’s Chess Championship 2015 in Chakvi after 4 rounds.

In the extremely exciting 8th round of the FIDE Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk the overnight leader Fabiano Caruana lost to Dmitry Jakovenko, allowing Hikaru Nakamura and Leinier Dominguez to catch up on the shared first place.

Nakamura defeated Baadur Jobava, while Dominguez held a draw against Evgeny Tomashevsky.

The 10th American Continental Chess Championship is currently in progress in the Telecommunications Tower (ANTEL Tower), in Montevideo, the capital and largest city of Uruguay.

The 9th BPB Limburg Open 2015 is taking place from 22-25th May, in the Sports Hall Geusselt, in the town of Maastricht, capital city in the province of Limburg, in the Netherlands.

Total of 430 players from 21 different countries participate in the festival. The strongest event is Open A, a 7-round Swiss tournament for players rated over 1999.

The scandal with the European Youth Chess Championship in 2013 that forced Vladimir Sakotic to resign from his position of MCF Presid

After a very successful first edition of International Etna tournament in Nicolosi (CT), in December, a new event – 6th International Terre degli Elimi Tournament will be held this summer from Alessandro Monaco and his chess club “Amici della Scacchiera” (Chessboard Friends) on the west side of the Sicily island in Erice.

The FIDE Events Commission is organizing the 8th Internet based FIDE Seminar for International Organizers from 22-25 June 2015.

The 1st Sivakasi Chess Sparklers (SCS) FIDE Rated Tournament took place from 17-24th May, 2015, in Sivakasi, a town in Virudhunagar District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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