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The 12th Annual Susan Polgar Foundation Girls’ Invitational is scheduled to take place from 26-30th July at Webster University, Saint Louis, Missouri. The event will offer more than $200K in prizes and scholarships.

Webster University will provide complimentary room and meal accommodation on campus for all qualifiers.

After following the games of Magnus Carlsen for a full month and his victories in Tata Steel 2015 and the dramatic Armageddon in Grenke the FIDE World Champion is taking a deserved break. His next large event is Gashimov Memorial 2015 in Shamkir in the month of April.

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 strong 10-player single round-robin tournament with top seeded player GM Anish Giri (2797).

Evgeny Tomashevsky scores another victory in the FIDE Tbilisi Grand Prix to extend the margin on the leaderboard before the first rest day.

The 6th Pfalz Open 2015 was held from 13th to 17th February, 2015 in Neustadt, Germany.

Jerusalem is getting ready for the 2015 European Individual Championship. The highly prestigious tournament, open to all members of European Federations, will be staged in hotel Ramada on February 23rd – March 8th 2015 by the municipality of Jer

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

The Chess Association of “West Azerbaijan” province on behalf of I.R. Iran Chess Federation organizes the 23rd Fajr International Open Chess Tournament from 18th to 23rd February, 2015 in Urmia, the capital of of West Azerbaijan Province in Iran.

The event is a Swiss open tournament with tempo of play 90′ + 30″.

133 players from 9 different countries will take place in the event, including 6 GMs, 1 WGM, 8 IMs, 7 FMs and 4 WFMs.

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

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

126 players from 21 countries participate in the tournament, including 12 GMs, 2 WGMs, 20 IMs, 24 FMs and 3 WFMs.