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Defending champion SP Sethuraman of PSPB suffered second consecutive shock defeat, this time at the hands of IM K Rathnakaran of Railways in the sixth round of the ONGC 53rd National Premier Chess Championship, organised by Tiruvarur District Chess Association, at Kasi’s Inn, Tiruvarur today.

The Peruvian Chess Federation is organizing the Gran Prix IRT Peru 2015 Norte from 19-22nd November at the Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego (UPAO) in Trujillo, Peru.

Underdog K Praneeth Surya of Telangana, the lowest ranked player caused the biggest upset of the tournament, beating the defending champion and joint top rated player SP Sethuraman of PSPB in the fifth round of the ONGC 53rd National Premier Chess Championship, organised by Tiruvarur District Chess Association, at Kasi’s Inn, Tiruvarur today.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 22 to 24 January 2016 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by the Asian Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Malaysian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

Four players, grandmaster SP Sethuraman and Vidit Santosh Gujrathi of PSPB, international masters P.

Former Under 16 world chess champion SP Sethuraman of PSPB bounced back from his second round loss to score a crucial win over Deep Sengupta also of PSPB, third highest ranked player of the tournament in the third round of the ONGC 53rd National Premier Chess Championship, organised by Tiruvarur District Chess Association at Kasi’s In

Bodda Pratyusha’s winning spree was halted by V Varshini in the fourth round of the Ramratna National Women’s Chess Championship that is taking place at Kolkata.

Varshini went for a big king side offensive against Pratyusha’s Sicilian defence. Pratyusha won three pieces for the queen. Varshini repeated the position with her queen and drew in 52 moves.

From 2 to 6 November 2015 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Barnaul, Russia, by the Russian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The Lecturer was IA Alexander Shaab (RUS), FIDE Lecturer, and Assistant Lecturer was FA Nadezhda Zykina (RUS).

The language of the Seminar was Russian.

Thirteen (13) National arbiters from Russia participated in the Seminar and eight (8) of them took part in the examination test that was held after the lectures.

The GM Tournament Sumarice 2015 is taking place from November 17-23, at Hotel Sumarice, in Kragujevac, Serbia.

The event is 10 player  round-robin tournament with an average rating 2441.

The 2015 IM Tournament Memorial Milutin Karaklajic is taking place from November 17-23, at Hotel Sumarice, in Kragujevac, Serbia.

The event is 6 player double round-robin tournament with an average rating 2349.

Participants: GM Ivanov Mikhail M RUS 2396, Djordjevic Vuk SRB 2381, FM Djokic Nenad SRB 2342, IM Dumpor Atif BIH 2335, IM Milenkovic Mladen SRB 2325 and Todorovic Nenad I SRB 2312.