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The 3rd Yuriy Privalov Memorial is taking place from 28th October to 2nd November 2014 in Lviv, a city in western Ukraine.

The event is a 10-player IM round-robin tournament with top seed IM Petr Golubka.

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The 2014 SPICE Cup Open was held on 21-26th October 2014 at the Crowne Plaza Clayton Hotel in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

The 9-round Swiss open was sponsored by Webster University and the Susan Polgar Foundation, offering the prize fund of $13,000 guaranteed (up from $11,000 last year).

The 2nd Montigny Masters Chess Tournament 2014 was organized by La Dame Noire (Black Queen) Chess Club on 18-26th October 2014 in Martigny, France.

The 13th Delhi International Chess Festival 2015 is set to take place on 9-16th January, 2015, at the Ludlow Castle Sports Complex, Civil Lines, New Delhi, India.

The Festival is following immediately after the 7th Chennai International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament.

The third round of the 18th OIBM Bad Wiessee Open Chess Tournament upset some of the leaders. Last year’s winner GM Alexander Delchev (2633) lost against the lower rated FM Ludwig Deglmann (2340). The game finished in 23 (!) moves with a classical worth to see mating combination.

Società Scacchistica Milanese, a historical chess club established in 1881, will organize a number of promotional chess events before and during EXPO 2015, which is starting from 1st May 2015 in Milan, Italy.

The Final Stage of the 2014 Portugal Classical Chess Circuit is taking place from 31st October to 2nd November 2014 in Matosinhos, a city in northern Portugal.

The event is a 6-player round-robin tournament.

The list of participants includes: Ivo Dias, Simao Maciel Abranches Pintor, Orfeh Bolhari, Antonio Silva, Jorge Ferreira and Andre Sousa.

The 2014 Chess World Cup Zonal 3.5 is taking place from 26th October to 5th November 2014 in Zhongshan, China.

The event is an 11-round Swiss Open, consisting of 54 players. Six of them are GMs, nine IMs, 4 FMs and 3 WGMs.

The 41st Indian Individual Women Premier Chess Championship 2014 is taking place from 25th October to 5th November 2014 in Sangli, a city in the state of Maharashtra, in western India.

The event is a round-robin tournament in eleven rounds.

Top seed is last year’s winner WGM Mary Ann Gomes (2355).

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