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The 13th Annual Southern Class Championships will be held from March 27-29, 2015, at the Wyndham Orlando Resort, 8001 International Drive, Orlando, Florida.

The event has 7 sections: Master, Expert, Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D and Class E.

All sections have either 3-day (March 27-29) or 2-day (March 28-29) schedules to play in.

The tournament format is 5-round Swiss with the time control 110′/40, plus 30′ until the end, plus 10” increment.

The 22nd Annual Western Class Championships were held from March 20-22, 2015, at the Sheraton Agoura Hills Hotel, 30100 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills, California.

The event was 5-round Swiss with seven sections: Master, Expert, Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D and Class E.

The tie-breaks of the third round of the FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship were played in Sochi on March 25. Six players returned to the SCC Galactica to find out who advances to the Quarterfinals.

The Polish Chess Federation organizes the Lotto Polish Championships from 24th March to 1st April, 2015, in Poznan, a city in west-central Poland.

The Polish Chess Federation organizes the Budimex Women’s Polish Championships from 24th March to 1st April, 2015, in Poznan, a city in west-central Poland.

The 2nd Vugar Gashimov Memorial will start in April, 2015, in Shamkir, Azerbaijan.

The Chess Federation of Norway organized chess promoting initiative on 23rd March, 2015.

The reigning World chess champion Magnus Carlsen and former World champion Garry Kasparov increased chess popularity in Norway with simultaneous exhibitions and other chess activities inside the Norwegian parliament.

The 2nd Kolkata International Grandmasters Chess Tournament took place from 15-24th March at the Indian Council For Cultural Relations, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Kolkata-71, India.

The return games of the third round matches of the FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship were played in SCC Galactica (Sochi, Krasnaya Polyana).

The FIDE Zone 4.4 Individual Championships 2015 were organized by the Togo Chess Federation under the auspices of the African Chess Confederation (ACC) from 13-22nd March in Lome, Togo.