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UT Dallas and a team of USA Junior All Stars will play a friendly match from 13th to 19th March. The tournament is a 10-Round Scheveningen System where each member of UT Dallas Team plays each member of the USA Junior All-Stars Team twice. Time Control is 90 min + 30 sec increment.

Live games with analysis will be daily on Chessdom.com with analysis by the top TCEC engines Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini.

The 2015 edition of the traditional chess tournament Reykjavik Open is taking place from 10-18th March at the Harpa Conference Hall.

A total of 274 players from 37 countries, including 42 Grandmasters and 30 International Masters, are taking part in the event.

The 16th Annual Pittsburgh Open was held from March 6-8, 2015, at the Wyndham Garden Pittsburgh Airport Hotel, One Industry Lane, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The event had 4 sections: Open, Under 2100, Under 1700 and Under 1300.

The main Open section gathered 36 participants. Four players shared the first place with 4,0/5 points each, but GM Sergey Erenburg took the bonus prize on best tie-break.

The Arab Chess Federation is going to organize an Internet based FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar, from 20 to 24 April 2015, under the auspices of FIDE.

The 2015 Spring Break UT Brownsville Grandmaster Tournament was held from 6-11th March at the Salon Cassia, Campus of the University of Texas at Brownsville, Texas, USA.

The event was a 10-player round robin with participants representing eight countries. The average elo of the field was 2465.

The Polish Chess Federation, under the auspices of the European Chess Union and Mr.

The Croatian Individual Women’s Chess Championship is taking place from 9th to 15th March, 2015, in Djakovo, a city in Croatia.

The event is a 10-player round-robin tournament with tempo of play 90′/ 40 + 30′ + 30″.

The 2015 Women’s World Chess Championship which will be held in Sochi, Russia from 16th March to 7th April. Live games will be daily live on Chessdom.com with the top TCEC engines Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini.

The drawing of lots to determine the colors in the 1st game of the 1st round will take place during the opening ceremony.

The first game is scheduled for March 17 at 15:00 local time.

China won the India-China Chess Summit 2015, organised by Telangana State Chess Association Adhoc Committee at Marriott Hotel, Hyderabad, comfortably by beating India in the final round.

They collected 18 game points and 11 match points, compared to that of 14 and 5 respectively by India, to win the Komati Reddy Prateek Reddy trophy.

The Chinese team collected six lakhs rupees for their stupendous efforts and Indian team received four lakhs rupees for their runner up spot.