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The 136th MGU Open 2015 was held on 14-15th February, 2015, at Chess Club MGU, in Sofia, capital and largest city of Bulgaria.The event was organized by FA Dimitar Iliev under the auspices of the University of mining and geology “St Ivan Rilski” Sofia,  Chess Club “An Pasan” and “Zora” Trading Company in a 6-round Swiss FIDE format, open to

The 7th Batavia Chess Tournament takes place from on 19th February, 2015 in Café Batavia 1920, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The event is a 10-player single round-robin tournament, with tempo of play 3′ + 2″.

Evgeny Tomashevsky defeated his compatriot and top seed Alexander Grischuk in the third round of the FIDE Grand Prix in Tbilisi to emerge sole leader with 2,5 points.

The 7th Batavia Chess Tournament is scheduled to take place from 20th February to 1st March, 2015 in Café Batavia 1920, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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 Austrian Chess Federation organizes Mitropa Cup 2015 from 13-22nd June at the Congress Zillertal in Mayrhofen/Austria, in the unique environment of the Alps.

Chess federations entitled to take part in the Mitropa Cup 2015 are: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland.

Hikaru Nakamura beat Sergey Karjakin in the third round of the

IM Milan Zajic, 16 years old talented chess player from Serbia with current rating 2452, continues his amazing string of successful performances, winning the strong “Georgi Tringov” Memorial Open Tournament in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Zajic head the field of 289 players, including 14 GMs and 23 IMs, performing 2622 ELO, adding 23 new points to his rating and fulfilling his second GM norm.

The 7th Batavia Chess Tournament takes place from 20th February to 1st March, 2015 in Café Batavia 1920, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The event is a 10-player all-play-all tournament, valid for FIDE rating and norms, with tempo of play 90′/ 40 + 30′ + 30″.

The 1st FIDE President’s Cup for diplomatic corps was held on 13th February at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO).

The event gathered 37 players from the ranks of diplomatic personnel, students, staff and guests of the Institute.

The participants were greeted by FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of the Russian Chess Federation Andrei Filatov, Vice Rector of MGIMO Artem Malgin and State Duma deputy Belan Hamchiev.