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The FIDE Rapid Marathon will be held on FOA platform hosted on web address: http://arena.myfide.net from February 12th 2016 to February 14th 2016. It is open to all platform members with rapid rating.

Grandmaster Belous Vladimir (Russia) emerged the Chennai Open 2016 Champion with 8.5 points after the tenth and final round of the 8th Chennai Open International Grandmaster Chess tournament 2016 for Sakthi Group Dr N Mahalingam trophy, held at Nehru Stadium, Chennai.

The 2016 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival is taking place from January 25th to February 4, at the Caleta Hotel in Gibraltar.

Congratulations to WGM Xiaobing Gu, winner of the Australian Women’s Masters 2016! Although first place had been decided before the last day, many of the players still had plenty to play for in round 9, with the minor placings a potential WIM norm on the line!

GM Davorin Kuljasevic has prepared an amazing collection of games called Chess Curiosities. The positions are from recent top tournaments around the world, but have gotten relatively low attention compared to the awesomeness of their character.

The first video of the series presents a Grandmaster level game from 2009, where the endgame has 6 queens on the board at the same time!

By FT Darko Polimac

Following the bombastic headlines in major newspapers on what seems to be a dated TV interview of Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh, the Saudi Chess Association has sent a following statement to FIDE Executive Director.

Greeting from Saudi,

The 2016 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival is taking place from January 25th to February 4, at the Caleta Hotel in Gibraltar.

The main event consists of many top Grandmasters and can be followed live with analysis here

Grandmasters Solodovnichenko Yuri (Ukraine) & Belous Vladimir (Russia) shared the lead with 7.5 points after the ninth and penultimate round of the 8th Chennai Open International Grandmaster Chess tournament 2016 for Sakthi Group Dr N Mahalingam trophy, held at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today.