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The 2015 Chinese Individual Chess Championship for women is taking place from 18-29th May, in Jiangsu Xinghua, a city under the administration of Taizhou, Jiangsu province, China.

Turkish IM Ogulcan Kanmazalp emerged clear winner of the 4th Open Internacional Llucmajor, that was held from 10-17th May at the Club Náutico Viejo de LLucmajor, near Palma de Mallorca.

The 9-round Swiss tournament attracted 201 players from 32 countries. Among them were 27 Grandmasters and 26 International Masters.

The 2015 Chinese Individual Chess Championship for men is taking place from 18-29th May, in Jiangsu Xinghua, a city under the administration of Taizhou, Jiangsu province, China.

The fourth and final stage of the FIDE Grand Prix series 2014-2015 is taking place from 13-27th May in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Here is live video from the playing hall and live from the press conferences in the last of the FIDE Grand Prix tournaments.

The 16th European Individual Women’s Chess Championship 2015 started on Tuesday in Oazis Palace Chakvi hotel in Chakvi, Georgia.

The 3rd International Chess Festival Cesme Open 2015 will take place from 15-20th June, at the Cesme Aya Haralambos Church, in Cesme, a splendid coastal Turkish city, situated near the largest metropolitan center in Turkey’s Aegean Region, Izmir.

The 2015 Czech Individual Men’s Chess Championship is taking place from 15-23rd May, at the Hotel Slunce, in Havlickuv Brod, a district within Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic.

The 2015 Czech Individual Women’s Chess Championship is taking place from 17-23rd May, at the Hotel Slunce, in Havlickuv Brod, a district within Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic.

The Ugra nominee in the FIDE Grand Prix, Dmitry Jakovenko, bounced back to 50% score after defeating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the 5th round.

The French player suffered second consecutive loss after a terrible oversight that cost him a pawn.

Sergey Karjakin grinded Evgeny Tomashevsky in a marathon game that lasted seven hours and 99 moves. White eventually found the way to take advantage of the pair of bishops.

The remaining four games were drawn.

The Chess Museum of the Russian Chess Federation today opened the exhibition “Chess during the War 1941-1945″ to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.