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Ukraine Grandmasters Solodovnichenko Yuri & Bernadskiy Vitaly, 4.0 points, shared the lead with perfect score after the fourth round of the 8th Chennai Open International Grandmaster Chess tournament 2016 for Sakthi Group Dr N Mahalingam trophy, held at Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today.

The 2016 Paracin Open is taking place from 19-24 January, in the Serbian city of Paracin.

The event is a 9-round Swiss FIDE open tournament, valid for international rating and norms. A total of 78 players from 4 different countries take part, including 1 GM, 1 IM and 7 FMs.

Top seed is Bulgarian player GM Vladimir Dimitrov (2424).

Last year’s winner was IM Mladen Milenkovic.

The 2016 Croatian Men’s Chess Championship is taking place from 19-29 January, at Valamar Diamant Hotel, in Porec, Croatia.

The 39th International Open San Sebastian will take place from March 19th to March 26th 2016. It is organized by the Gipuzkoan Chess Federation in the beatiful city of San Sebastian in Northern Spain.

The Marcel Duchamp Memorial took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The 2016 Peru Grand Prix Final is taking place from January 18-24, in Peruvian capital Lima.

The event is a 12-player single round robin tournament, organized by the Peruvian Chess Federation, with an average Elo rating of 2388. The first three players will qualify for the Peruvian Olympic team.

It was an intense drama in the final round of 14th Parsvnath Delhi International Chess Festival as overnight sole leader Ivan Popov suffered a shock defeat at the hands of veteran Grandmaster Valeriy Neverov of Ukraine.