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The 52nd Groningen Chess Festival is taking place from 21-30th December at the Sport Centre Rijksuniversiteit & Hanzehogeschool in Groningen, Netherlands.

The event is a 9-round Swiss with prize fund € 6000.

The 52nd Groningen Chess Festival is taking place from 21-30th December at the Sport Centre Rijksuniversiteit & Hanzehogeschool in Groningen, Netherlands.

The 52nd Groningen Chess Festival is taking place from 21-30th December at the Sport Centre Rijksuniversiteit & Hanzehogeschool in Groningen, Netherlands.

The 130th MGU Open 2014 is scheduled to take place on 3-4th January, 2015, at Chess Club MGU, in Sofia, capital and largest city of Bulgaria.

Grandmaster Evgeny Postny from Israel won the main section of the 2014 Zadar Open which was held from 14-20th December in Zadar, Croatia.

Postny completed the event with 7,0/9 points, half a point ahead of the Turkish International Masters Ogulcan Kanmazalp and Burak Firat. Kanmazalp earned a GM norm.

Best placed local player GM Ante Šarić qualified for the next Croatian Championship. Standings below.

The Al Ain Chess Club invites all FIDE rated players to participate in the 3rd Al Ain Chess Classic from 19-27th December 2014.

The 9-round Swiss tournament is held at the Al Ain Rotana Hili Hotel.

Top prizes are 1st $11,000 / $8,500 / $6,000 / $4,500 / $3,000 / $2,000 etc (20 regular prizes)

Grandmaster David Navara won the European Blitz Chess Championship 2014 that was held on 19th December at the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw, Poland.

616 players from 31 European federations (FIDE Zones 1.1 to 1.10), including 176 International title holders, competed in the 11 double-round Swiss event with the time control G-3′+2”.

The Stockholm Chess Federation is organizing the 44th Rilton Cup, which will be held from 27th December 2014 to 5th January 2015.

The tournament will be played in four groups: Rilton Cup, Rilton Elo, Rilton 1800 and Rilton 1600. All sections will be FIDE rated.

GM S P Sethuraman won the SIB-CMS College 52nd National Premier Chess Championship, organised by Kottayam Chess Academy, with an undefeated score of 8.5 points, at CMS College, Kottayam, in the southern state of Kerala.

Chessdom: Hello Leny. Thank you very much for doing this interview. We just heard the news about your son Wesley becoming a full time professional. We interviewed his former coach, GM Susan Polgar. We would like to know your perspective.

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