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The Chess Association of “West Azerbaijan” province on behalf of I.R.

Evgeny Tomashevsky defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the 8th round of the Tbilisi FIDE Grand Prix to increase his lead to full point ahead of the second-placed Dmitry Jakovenko.

Tomashevsky won in an extremely rare ending of 2 bishops + knight vs rook + 4 pawns.

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 2nd International Chess Tournament Memory of “Nebesna sotnya” is taking place on 21-22nd February, 2015, in Lutsk, a city in northwestern Ukraine.

The 3rd FIDE World Senior Team Chess Championship is taking place from 24th February to 4th March 2015 in Dresden, Germany.

The list of 44 teams is headed by England I (ELO average: 2570), Germany I (ELO average: 2482), Slovakia (ELO average: 2462).

Dmitry Jakovenko defeated Anish Giri in the 7th round of Tbilisi FIDE Grand Prix to emerge clear second in the standings, half a point behind the leader Evgeny Tomashevsky.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 11 to 14 June 2015 in Rosenheim, Germany, by the German Chess Federation’s Arbiters’ Commission, in cooperation with the German Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The 19th International Chess Tournament Guingamp took place from 14th to 21st February, 2015, in Guingamp, a city in northwestern France.

The event was a 9-round Swiss open tournament with tempo of play 90′/ 40 + 30′ + 30″ and prize fund in total of 4,600 €.

GM Nikita Maiorov from Belarus lifted the trophy with 7/9 points and took the first prize in the amount of 1,000 €.

Teimour Radjabov and Peter Svidler have scored their first respective victories in the FIDE Grand Prix in Tbilisi.