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The traditional 5th blitz match between “Blondes” and “Brunettes” is scheduled to take place on 3rd March at the telecenter “Ostankino” in Moscow.

In the earlier encounters Blondes won two matches, Brunettes were better in one, while one match was tied.

The playing format will be Scheveningen with eight players in each team.

The Southwest Class Championships were held from February 13-16, 2015, at the DFW Airport Marriott South, 4151 Centreport Blvd., Fort Worth, Texas.

India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive Highlights of the Chennai Open Chess Championship 2015 on its DD Sports Channel from 19-22nd February.

Filmed and Produced by Vijay Kumar the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under:

The International Chess Open Graz 2015 took place on 13-20th February 2015 at the beautiful and modern Hotel Spa Novapark in Graz, the second-largest city in Austria.

The event was a 9-round Swiss open with tempo of play 90′/ 40 + 30′ + 30″.

Jerusalem is getting ready for the 2015 European Individual Championship.

After the classical part of the Zurich Chess Challenge, which was won by Viswanathan Anand, the final day of the event was reserved for the rapid section.

The classical games were counted as 2 points for win, 1 point for draw towards the overall score. Rapid games were adding 1 point for a win, 0.5 for a draw.

The 2nd Bunratty Classic Chess Tournament 2015 is taking place from 18th to 22nd February, 2015, at the luxurious Bunratty Castle Hotel & Spa, Ireland.

The event is a 10-player single round-robin tournament.

Top seed is French GM Sebastien Maze (2585).

Tournament website

The Curacao Chess Federation in cooperation with FIDE cordially invites you to attend the FIDE Organizers’ Seminar for International Organizers.