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The 15th European Senior Chess Championships for Men and Women are held in Eretria, Greece, from 28th April untill 8th May, 2015. The official venue is the conference center of the 4-star “Eretria Village” Hotel, which is near the ancient city of Eretria.

The European Senior Chess Championship is played according to the Swiss System in 9 rounds, with the time control 40 moves in 90 minutes, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game+ 30 seconds increment per move, starting from move one.

The International Open “Queima das Fitas” 2015 will take place from 30th April to 3rd May at the Hotel D. Luis, in Coimbra, Portugal.

The tournament is part of the National Circuit in Classical Chess 2014/2015.

The 7-round Swiss event is organized by the Chess Section of the Academic Association of Coimbra, with the support of the Portuguese Chess Federation, of the Chess Association of Coimbra District and the Hotel D. Luís.

The national team of China continued its global domination by securing the gold medal at the FIDE World Team Chess Championship in Tsakhkadzor, having previously won the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromso.

Earlier, China had three silver medals from the World Team Championships in 2005, 2011 and 2013. In 2005 they were on the brink of winning the gold, before being overtaken by Russia in the dramatic last round.

Georgia concluded the 2015 FIDE Women’s World Team Chess Championship in style, by defeating the host country and three-times champion China.

The 42nd Selangor Open Chess Tournament, dedicated to the memory of Mrs Jackie Wong, is scheduled to take place from 30th April to 4th May, 2015, in Kuala Lumpur, the federal capital and most populous city of Malaysia.

While the just ended FIDE Zone 4.2 Africa Chess Championship Open winner, IM elect Arthur Ssegwanyi was the biggest beneficiary from the event, there were many individual winners who attained titles, hefty cash prizes and others gained rating points and invaluable experience.

It was therefore not a case of winner takes it all at City Oil, Kira Road as the event climaxed on Saturday 25th April 2015.

The 2015 Romanian Chess Championships for men and women were held from 18-26th April in Calimanesti.

The men’s tournament had 32 participants, while the women’s section had 24 players. Both events were completed over nine rounds of Swiss system.

WIM Marija Rakic justified her ranking as the top seed to win the 2015 Serbian Women’s Championship, claiming her second national title after 2012.

World Champion Magnus Carlsen has won the Gashimov Memorial for the second year running after concluding the event with 7 points from nine games.