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Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev supported the idea of ​​holding the World Robot Chess Championship in Russia.

The head of government visited the FIDE Women’s World Championship, which is ongoing in Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi, and heard about the idea of ​​organizing the World Robot Chess Championship.

The 2015 Aeroflot Open is taking place from 27th March till 7th April at the Cosmos Hotel in Moscow. The total prize fund is 140.000 Euro.

The tournament will be played in three groups – A, B and C according to the participants’ ratings. On the 6th of April there will be a blitz tournament.

The organizers are OJSC “Aeroflot Russian Airlines”, The Russian Chess Federation and the Fund for Support of Chess Creation.

The Final Four of College Chess for 2015, also known as The President’s Cup, is set to take place on 27-29th March at the New York Athletic Club.

The event is open to the top four U.S. schools from the most recent Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship (Pan-Am). It is run as a fixed-roster team round-robin tournament, scored by individual (not team) points.

The fourth round of the FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship started in SCC Galactica (Sochi, Krasnaya Polyana) on March 26.

Eight players continue their quest for the chess crown – Humpy Koneru and Harika Dronavalli (both from India), sisters Anna and Mariya Muzychuk (both from Ukraine), Zhao Xue (China), Natalia Pogonina (Russia), Meri Arabidze (Georgia), and Pia Cramling (Sweden).

The Hungarian Chess Federation organizes the International Women Spring Chess Festival from 7-15th April, 2015, in Budapest, the capital of Hungary and one of the largest cities in Central Europe.

The 2015 Karposh Open Chess Tournament is a traditional chess event organized by the municipality Karposh, in the capital city of Republic of Macedonia, Skopje, in collaboration with Chess Club Gambit Asseco SEE

The event is taking place from 27th March to 3rd April, 2015 at the 5-Star Hotel Aleksandar Palace*****

The tournament format is a 9-round Swiss with time control 90′/ 40 + 30′ + 30″.

Part 2 of the interview with Le Quang Liem, where he talks about his expectations for this year’s US College Chess Final Four and the advantages of new SPICE office at the Webster University.

The interviewer is Mr. Frank Niro III, president of Chess Journalists of America.

The famous Aeroflot Open is restarted in its classical format in 2015. The last classical event was held in 2012, while the 2013-tournament was played with short time controls.

The Aeroflot Open is taking place from 26th March to 5th April at the Cosmos Hotel in Moscow. The total prize fund is 140.000 Euro.

Part 1 of the interview with Le Quang Liem, where he talks about his qualification for the World Chess Cup 2015, study at Webster University and getting back to 2700 ELO.

The interviewer is Mr. Frank Niro III, president of Chess Journalists of America.

The FIDE Zone 4.1 Individual Championships 2015 are being organized by the Tunisian Chess Federation under the auspices of the African Chess Confederation (ACC) from 26-31st March in Hammamet, Tunisia.