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The 75th Georgian Individual Chess Championship is taking place from 14-26 January, 2016, in Georgian capital Tbilisi.

Standings and statistics

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

The traditional 10-round Swiss FIDE event s one of the strongest open chess tournaments in the world and its hefty prize fund attracted many top players. The first prize is £20,000, while the best female player will be awarded £15,000.

The 78th Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2016 is taking place from 16-31 January in Wijk Aan Zee, Amsterdam and Utrecht.

The event is a 13th category tournament with an average Elo rating 2569.

Russian Grandmaster Ivan Popov inched closer to the title after settling for a draw with Yuri Solodovnichenko of Ukraine in the ninth and penultimate round of the premier group of

Dubai Chess and Culture Club has opened the registration for the 18^th Dubai Open Chess Tournament – Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup, which will be held from April 10-20, 2016, at the club’s Sheikh Saeed Bin Hamdan Hall.

World Champion Magnus Carlsen is reviewing the chess year 2015 in a 10-minute video recorded at the Play Magnus headquarters.

Today, Russian Sports New Agency (R-Sport) published an interview with Andrey Filatov, President of the Russian Chess Federation, where he stated that ‘talks to hold the 2016 World Chess Championship Match in the US are on hold’.

Agon, which holds rights to organize the match, would like to inform the media that statement by RCF President is not accurate.