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The 133rd Varsity Chess Match between Oxford and Cambridge Universities takes place at the RAC Club, Pall Mall, London, on Saturday 7 March 2015, starting at 12.30pm.

This year’s event will be officially opened by GM Luke McShane, who played board one for Oxford in the 2004 and 2005 Varsity chess matches. The approximate average age of Oxford team is 23 years and Cambridge is 21 years, with approximate average ratings of Oxford 2126 and Cambridge 2252.

The 47th International WGM Tournament Belgrade 2015 is taking place from 3rd to 11th March, in Serbia, the capital and largest city of Serbia.

The Latvian Chess Federation is holding the 4th Vladimir Petrov Memorial on 7-8th March, 2015, at the Jurmala City museum in Jurmala, Latvia.

Number of top players participate, including Vasil Ivanchuk, Sergey Karjakin, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Alexander Morozevich, Boris Gelfand, Richard Raport, Alexey Shirov and others.

The 137th MGU Open 2015 was held from 28th February to 1st March, 2015, at Chess Club MGU, in Sofia, capital and largest city of Bulgaria.

The All India Chess Federation on behalf of FIDE and Commonwealth Chess Association cordially invite your Federation to participate in the Commonwealth Chess Championship to be held at Hotel Park Plaza, Shahdara, New Delhi, India from 22nd June t

India and China are playing a 4-board Scheveningen Match on 1-10th March in Hyderabad.

In round 4 China won 2,5-1,5 to equalise the score 8-8.

Live games here. Video courtesy of Vijay Kumar.

A new product is available at the Chessdom chess shop and it is dedicated to the World Champion Magnus Carlsen.

The Chess Federation of the Vietnam has the honor to invite all Chess Federations in Zone 3.3 affiliated to FIDE to participate in the Zone 3.3 Zonal Championships 2015 for Open and Women from 06-16 March 2015 in H

The Chess Federation of Nepal, on behalf of the Zonal President, has the honor to invite all National Chess Federations of Zone 3.2 affiliated with FIDE to participate in the Asian Zonal (Zone 3.2) Chess Championship 2015 Men & Women organized by Chess Federation of Nepal which will be h