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The recent and undeniable chess swell felt around the nation rises to serve one epic event: the fight for the American throne.

In April, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis will bring together one of the strongest fields ever to compete for the national title, 12 of America’s top Grandmasters who combine for a 2732 rating average.

Russians Ernesto Inarkiev and Aleksandra Goryachkina became individual leaders in the Men’s and Women’s Cup of Russia Stages within the frames of the Moscow Open 2015. They are the only players of 400 other athletes, who managed to win all four games.

Nordic Semiconductor will have a stand at this year’s Mobile World Congress, which will be held on 2-5th March in Barcelona.

The company ambassador Magnus Carlsen, reigning World Chess Champion in all three time controls, will play blitz games against 10 visitors at Mobile World Congress on Tuesday March 3rd, from 3-5 pm.

The reigning Champion of Russia told the correspondent of the Moscow Open official website about his start at the tournament and shared his plans for the rest of the year.

World Champion Hou Yifan gives a memorable Masterclass followed by questions from the audience. A remarkable interview hosted by the eloquent Tournament Director Stuart Conquest.

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The FIDE Trainers’ Commission held its Annual Summit for 2015 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. In previous years the Summit was held in Washington DC (United States of America – 2013) and in Barcelona (Spain – 2014).

In the morning of Thursday, 29.01.2015, in the Sharjah Cultural & Chess Club, the Meeting of the Commission took place.

Daily news broadcast featuring GM Kenny Solomon and many more elite chess players. Hosted by Tania Sachdev at the 2015 Tradewise Gibraltar Open Chess Tournament.

New In Chess magazine has started a new instructional series with Indian GM Parimarjan Negi. In issue 2015#1 he tours chess history and summarises the style of World Champion Magnus Carlsen:

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-larges

Guliskhan Nakhbayeva from Kazakhstan started with three victories and is one of the leaders of the Tournament B – Women’s Cup of Russia stage. Now everybody, who wanted to find out more about this chess player from Kazakhstan, will have such a chance.

Q: Guliskhan, congratulations on a great start! How can you describe your first three games?