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The Turkish Chess Championship is taking place from November 27 to December 10, 2015, in Adana, a major city in southern Turkey.

The event is a 14-player single round-robin tournament for the title 2015 Turkish chess champion.

The 1st FIDE World Online Women Blitz Championship Final took place in Rome on November 26th 2015.

The venue was the prestigious Circolo Canottieri Aniene in Rome, Italy, made available by its president, Giovanni Malago, who is also the president of the Italian Olympic Committee.

The event was the culmination of the massive qualification process in which more than 300 female players from 39 countries took part.

The 4th Central Asia Chess Cup of the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was held from 21-29th November at the Grand Hotel Tien Shan in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

The tournament was organized by the Kazakhstan Chess Federation and FIDE.

Entitled to participate were chess players from the Central Asian countries – Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan.

The popular chess club “Studentski Grad” held its annual blitz championship in the central library of the Studenski Grad campus in Belgrade, Serbia.

The club invited its current and former members and supporters. Three players participated through the online platforms from distant Australia, France and Surgut (Ugra) Russia.

After 11 rounds of the Swiss pairings FM Ivan Radivojevic won the tournament with the perfect score. Standings and photos below.

The 2015 Myanmar International Open is taking place from 22-28th November at the Central Hotel, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Yangon.

The event is a 9-round Swiss open tournament with first prize in the amount of US$ 3,000.

Top seed is Russian GM Dmitri Komarov (2517).

Sixteen year old Karthikeyan Murali of Tamil Nadu was crowned as the national champion, irrespective of the final round loss to IM Arghyadip Das in the ONGC 53rd National Premier Chess Championship, organised by Tiruvarur District Chess Association at Kasi’s Inn, Tiruvarur, today.

The 75th Italian Chess Championship is taking place from November 30 to December 11, 2015, at Grand Hotel Doria, in Milano.

The event is a 12-player single round-robin tournament for the title 2015 Italian Men’s Chess Champion.

The draw for the highly anticipated London Chess Classic, which is just one week away now, was performed by Tournament Director Malcolm Pein and Deputy Arbiter David Sedgwick with the pupils of Marion Richardson Primary School on Monday 23rd November.

Komodo is the Grand champion of the 2015 edition of the Top Chess Engine Championship!