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The Zadar Chess Union is holding the 2015 Zadar Open from 13-19th December at the Falkensteiner Hotels & Resorts Borik in Zadar, Croatia.

The event consists of two sections, Group A for players rated above 2200 FIDE and Group B for U2300 players. Both sections will be completed over nine rounds of Swiss system.

Top prizes in Group A are EUR 2000 / 1200 / 800 / 600 / 500 / 400 etc

The best placed Croatian player qualifies for the national championship.

The 34th Annual Empire City Open will be held from December 26-28, 2015, at the Hotel Pennsylvania, 401 Seventh Ave, New York.

GM Evgeny Romanov is the winner San Salvador Chess Open 2015. He was third seeded in the tournament and scored 8 points in 9 rounds – a full point ahead of the competition.

Woman Grandmaster Milunka Lazarević, a famous player and chess journalist, is turning 83 today.

The European Senior Team Chess Championship 2016 will be held in Halkidiki, on the northern coast of Aegean Sea from 18th to 28th April 2016.

The games will take place in the conference center of 5-star Anthemus Sea Resort on the Sithonia peninsula of Halkidiki, 95 km south Thessaloniki airport. Anthemus Sea is an excellent holiday destination, surrounded by a sandy beach on the crystal clear waters of the Aegean Sea.

Happy birthday to Viswanathan Anand, one of the greatest legends of chess! We wish him all the best!

Viswanathan Anand was the World Blitz Chess champion in 2000, was the FIDE World Rapid Chess Champion in 2003. He held the highest title in chess – World Champion – from 2000 to 2002 and from 2007 to 2012. Next year he will be competing again for it, starting with the Candidates Chess 2016 in Moscow. Today’s special pack is dedicated to him and to all his chess fans. It includes:

London Chess Classics 6th round has concluded and with only 3 rounds left until the winner is decided, the winner is far from clear. An exciting set of games brought us these standings:

Vassily Ivanchuk from Ukraine is the winner of the ACP Masters rapid super tournament that ended on Thursday in the Israeli city of Ashdod. The Ukraine No.1 beat Frenchman Etienne Bacrot in the final match 2.5: 0.5 to take home the title and the 10.000 $ first prize.

Thursday saw the return of the Grand Chess Tour, with the identity of this year’s winner still very much in the balance. With three rounds to go, almost anyone could still win both the London Chess Classic and overall title.

The first result to come in today was yet another draw in a Berlin, this time in the game between Vachier-Lagrave and Caruana.

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