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The 19th Bad Wiessee International Chess Tournament is taking place from October 31st to November 8th, 2015, in the spa town of Bad Wiessee, a spa town on Lake Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany.

The event is a 9-round Swiss open tournament with prize fund in the amount of € 16,700.

453 players are vying for the first prize of € 2,500. Top seed is German #1 GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu.

The 8th Bilbao Masters 2015 took place from October 26th to November 1st, in Bilbao, a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Biscay.

2015-2016 Norway Elite Team Chess Championship is taking place in Norwegian capital Oslo.

Tournament website

The FIDE World Youth & Cadets Championship 2015 continued with round 7 here in Porto Carras, Halkidiki.

The British Rapidplay Chess Championship 2015 is taking place from October 31st to November 1st, in Leeds, England.

The event is played in 11 rounds with top seed GM Mark Hebden.

Official website/ Standings and statistics

The FIDE World Youth & Cadets Championship 2015 resumed after the rest day here in Porto Carras, Halkidiki.

Mosadeghpour Masoud from Iran continued the winning row in the Open U18 group and is now full point ahead of the nearest followers.

The photo gallery of round 6 is available and you can check it at this link. The photos by A. Kontokanis and D. Matisone include players from all sections and more will be added in the next hours.

More photos will be uploaded to the official gallery of WYCC and on Flickr here.

The 2015 Ptuj International Chess Tournament took place from October 24-31, in Ptuj, a city in Slovenia.

The event was a 9-round Swiss open tournament with tempo 90′/40 moves + 30′ + 30″.

The Friendship Games, a 9-round Swiss FIDE rated tournament for title norms, takes place at the Royal Dearborn Hotel and Conference Center in Dearborn, Michigan (suburban Detroit) from 28th October to 1st November.

The event is organized by Michigan Chess Festival LLC (MCFLLC) and the arbiter is IA Hal Bond of Canada.

The American Wesley So and the Dutch Anish Giri are most certainly the two favorurites to win Bilbao Masters Final, after the tremendous victory from this last one upon the game against Viswanathan Anand, and the ties Ananad resulted in against Liren Ding.