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A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 31 January to 5 February 2015 in Moscow, Russia, by the Russian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

From 11 to 13 November 2014 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in New Delhi, India, by the Delhi Chess Association, in cooperation with the All India Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

Zadar Chess Union is holding the 2014 Zadar Open from 14-20th December at the Falkensteiner Hotels & Resorts Borik in Zadar, Croatia.

The event consists of two sections, Group A for players rated above 2200 FIDE and Group B for U2300 players. Both sections will be completed over nine rounds of Swiss system.

Top prizes in Group A are EUR 2200 / 1400 / 900 / 700 / 600 / 500 etc

The best placed Croatian player qualifies for the national championship.

The 17th International Chess Festival “Citta di Padova” is taking place on 14-21st December 2014 in Padova, Italy.

The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament open to all players rated above 1800 FIDE Elo.

Top seed is last-year’s winner GM Kiril Georgiev (Bulgaria) 2627.

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Abierto Legislatura 2014 “Copa Norberto La Porta” takes place on 13-21st December at the Salon Dorado de la Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires – Peru 160 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The 66th Montenegro Individual Men’s Chess Championship is taking place on 10-20th December 2014 in Podgorica as a part of “December Days of Chess” in Podgorica.

The event is a 12-player round-robin tournament, held in the hall of the National Library “Radosav Ljumovic”, gathering the members of the Montenegro Olympic team, as well as the most promising players.

Only four months after the Chess Olympiad in Tromso where the greatest chess players of the world competed against each other it is already time to have a look at the best talents of the next generation.

The Hungarian Chess Federation (HCF) is organizing the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad for teams in Győr (Hungary) on 12-22nd December 2014.

The SportAccord World Mind Rapid Chess Games 2014 took place on 11-12th December 2014 in Beijing, China.

The gold went to Russia after Alexander Grischuk and Valentina Gunina emerged clear winners.

Grischuk finished first with 5/7 points, leaving the nearest followers Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hao Wang, Levon Aronian and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov half point behind.

The SportAccord World Mind Chess Games 2014 are taking place on 11-17th December 2014 in Beijing, China.

The 6th Penang Heritage City International Chess Open 2014 is taking place on 8-12th December 2014 at the Red Rock Hotel in Penang, a state in Malaysia, located on the northwest coast of Peninsu