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In his first public performance since the Candidates’ tournament Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri, also ambassador of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, plays simultaneous chess in Brussels today.

He will face 25 European Commission employees. Giri will play the simultaneous at the Permanent Representation of the Netherlands at the EU.

Adhiban B, Sethuraman S.P, Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, Sengupta Deep and Sasikiran Krishnan and their captain Ramesh have become the heroes of the Asian Nations Cup 2016.

With only one unexpected draw against Mongolian Open team, the Indian chess players have won the rest of their matches during the Asian team competition – Asian Nations Cup 2016 in Abu Dhabi. After the last round we wanted to congratulate them with the victory.

A FIDE Seminar for International Organizers was held from 27th to 29th March in Hammamet, Tunisia by the Tunisian Chess Federation under the auspice of the EVE commission, the African Chess Confederation and the Arab Chess Union.

Dear Sirs,

By letters dated 8 May and 2 June 2015, we requested a copy of all invoices sent by ECU to the Bulgarian Chess Federation during the years 2011-2014.

The Indian men’s team won the 20-country Asian Nations Cup Chess Team Championship while the Chinese women retained their title in the tournament organized by the UAE Chess Federation under the auspices of the Asian Chess Federation at the Novotel Abu Dhabi Al Bustan hotel.

Vidit Santosh Gujrathi is one of the leading Indian Grandmasters, a member of the national open team at the Asian Nations Cup 2016. Vidit has once won the World Youth Champion U-14. Also, he got the bronze medal in the World Junior Chess Championship.

India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive Highlights of the 2016 Tradewise Gibraltar Masters on its DD Sports Channel prime time slot from 5-8th April.

Produced by Vijay Kumar, the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under:

The name Murtas Kazhgaleyev is well known in the world of chess. Murtas is a member of the National Kazakhstani team during six World Chess Olympiads, winner of the Asian Games 2006 in Doha in rapid games. Last year he became the National Chess Champion for the first time.