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FIDE and FIDE Arbiters’ Commission are going to organize on Internet a Refreshing Course for Arbiters in English language.

The Gibraltar Chess Festival 2015 is going to take place 26 January – 5 February in the Caleta Hotel, Gibraltar. The long traditions of the festival, the fantastic organization, and the hefty prize fund have attracted many of the top world grandmasters.

The 14th Marienbad Open 2015 is taking place on 17-24th January 2015 in Marianske Lazne, the second biggest spa town in the Czech Republic.

The Final Stage of the 81st Brazilian Individual Men’s Chess Championship 2015 is taking place from 17th to 25th January 2015 in Joao Pessoa, the easternmost city in the Americas and the capital of the state of Paraíba in Brazil.

The event is a 12-player round-robin tournament with an average Elo rating 2356 and tempo of play 90′ + 30″.

The 18th edition of Neujahrs Open was organized by Chess Club “SV Chemie Guben 1990 e.V.” on 2-6th January 2015 in Guben, a town on the Lusatian Neisse river in the state of Brandenburg, Germany.

The event was a 9-round Swiss open tournament with tempo of play 120 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 seconds increment starting from move one and first prize in the amount of 1.000 €.

The Singapore Chess Federation, under the auspices of the ASEAN Chess Confederation (ACC) and the Asian Chess Federation (ACF), have the honour of inviting all Asian national chess federations to participate in the

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 16 to 18 June 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, by the US Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.