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The CJKS-Prime Distribution Group GM Tournament 2015 took place on 5-13th February, 2015, in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

The event was a 10-player round-robin tournament including 3 Grandmasters, 4 International Masters, 1 Woman Grandmaster and 2 FIDE Masters. The winners received two thousand five hundred US dollars (2,500 $) in total.

GM Abdullah Al-Rakib of Bangladesh Navy became champion.

The Lilla Elite Hotels Open is taking place from 13-15th February, 2015, in Vaxjo, a city in Sweden.

The event is an 8-round Swiss open with tempo of play 15′ + 5″ for the first 4 rounds and 90′ + 30″ for the second half of the tournament.

Tournament website

The 75th Noteboom Chess Cup 2015, sponsored by CORPUS, is taking place from 13-15th February, 2015, in the CORPUS Congress Center of Leonardo College in the city of Leiden, Netherlands.

The 75th Noteboom Weekend Tournament 2015, sponsored by CORPUS, is taking place from 13-15th February, 2015, in the CORPUS Congress Center of Leonardo College in the city of Leiden, Netherlands.

The 6th edition of Pfaltz Open 2015 is taking place from 13th to 17th February, 2015 in Neustadt, Germany.

Reigning European Champion Alexander Motylev and former European Champion Vladimir Potkin (2011) are appointed as coaches for the Russian men’s national team, RCF CEO Mark Glukhovsky confirmed for R-Sport.

Motylev will be acting captain but the two experts will be equal in decision-making process.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized from 1-4th February in Casablanca, Morocco, by the Royal Morocco Chess Federation and under auspices of FIDE.

The venue of the Seminar was the Movenpick Hotel in Sana’a.

The lecturer was IA Mahdi Abdulrahim (UAE), Councilor of the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturers were IA Akkour Abdelfattah (MAR), Chairman of Morocco Arbiters’ Council and IA Bechir Messaoudi (TUN).

GM Nikita Maiorov (Belarus) emerged a clear winner of the Bergquell Open 2015 with 5,5/7 points.

The event was organized by Chess Club 1994 OberlanD e.V. this February in Germany.

It is time for the top chess event of February and with it comes the monthly pack of the popular Chess Times pdf and pgn magazine.

The Zurich Chess Challenge 2015 is taking place from 13th to 19th February, 2015, at the Hotel Savoy Baur en Ville, in Zurich, Switzerland.

A blitz tournament will decide the pairings of the tournament. Games will be live with triple engine analysis starting at 19:00 CET. You can follow the main tournament classical games starting daily at 15:00 CET at the Zurich live games section