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The Russian State Social University provides the live streaming of the opening ceremony of RSSU Student Cup and RSSU School Winner Cup, which are starting today as part of the Moscow Open 2016.

The ceremony is taking place on January 29 in the RSSU Event Hall and begins at 10 am Moscow time.

The 12th International RSSU Chess Cup Moscow Open 2016 is set to take place from 29th January to 8th February at the Russian State Social University in Moscow, Russia.

The press conference dedicated to the organization of the International RSSU Chess Cup Moscow Open 2016 was held in the multimedia centre of TASS news agency on Tuesday, January 26.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 7 to 10 July 2016 in Benasque (Huesca), Spain, by the Spanish Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Organizers of the Benasque Open Tournament and under the auspices of FIDE.

From 22 to 24 January 2016 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by the Malaysian Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Asian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The International RSSU Chess Cup Moscow Open 2016 is taking place from January 30 to February 7, in Moscow, Russia.

The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament, stage of the Men’s Cup of Russia.

A total of 169 players will be vying for the prize fund in the amount of RUB 1,500,000.

Top seed is GM Anton Korobov (2710).

The 2015 Iranian Men’s Final Chess Championship was organized by the Tehran Chess Association and Iranian Chess Federation in an 11-round single round-robin tournament.

The Norway Chess 2016, sponsored by Altibox, is going to take place in Stavanger April 18-30. It is going to be a ten player single round robin event. Six of the players have been announced and they include the World Champion Magnus Carlsen (Norway), the ex world champions Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) and Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Levon Aronian (Armenia), Anish Giri (The Nederlands), and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France).

Today is the rest day of Tata Steel 2016. After 10 rounds Carlsen is in the lead, half a point ahead of Caruana. So far we saw brilliant games in this year’s Tata Steel edition and you can replay them all with computer analysis here

GM Davorin Kuljasevic provides insight into some of the most interesting moments of Tata Steel 2016. In a true masterclass fashion the Croatian GM presents games that will be immortal in chess history.

Wei Yi – Navara – by GM Davorin Kuljasevic