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The 3rd FIDE World Senior Team Chess Championship from 24th February to 4th March 2015 in Dresden is already breaking all the records for participants two months befor

The 2015 Australian Open Chess Championship is taking place on 2-11th January 2015 at The Lyceum, in Castle Hill, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

The Open Section is an 11-round Swiss tournament with first prize in the amount of $6,000.

The 26th International Open Roquetas de Mar is held on 2-6th January, 2015, at the Hotel Bahia Serena in Roquetas de Mar, Almeria, Spain.

The event is organized by the Club Ajedrez Roquetas and consists of the 9-round General Open with the top prize of 1000 EUR and the 7-round U2150 Open with the top prize of 300 EUR.

Top seed is GM Nikita Maiorov (Belarus).

ChessBet launches its first 2015 Sprint race. The prediction competition runs between the 1st and the 15th of January. It is free and open for everyone

Indian International Masters Rathnakaran and Swapnil Dhopade shared the lead with 4.0 points after the fourth round of the 7th Chennai International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today.

The 2015 Australian Open Chess Championship is taking place on 2-11th January 2015 at The Lyceum, in Castle Hill, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

The 122nd New Zealand Chess Congress organizes the 2015 edition of New Zealand Open Chess Championship on 1-9th January 2015 in Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand.

The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with time control 90 minutes for first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with the addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.

The Lisbon Christmas International Chess Open was organized by the Portugal Chess Academy from 26-30th December at the Hotel Real Palácio in Lisbon, Portugal.

A total of 239 players from 32 federations competed in the 9-round Swiss tournament. Among them were 11 Grandmasters and 20 International Masters.

The 2015 edition of Basel Chess Festival is taking place on 1-5th January 2015 at Hotel Hilton in Basel, Switzerland.

The Master Section is a 7-round Swiss FIDE tournament with tempo of play 100 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds increment starting from move one.

80 players are competing for the first prize in the amount of 2.500 CHF.

Indian International Masters Ramnath Bhuvanesh and Rathnakaran stunned higher rated Grandmasters, moving into shared lead with 3.0 points after the third round of the 7th Chennai International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today.