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The 6th Ibero-American Chess Championship, part of Bilbao Chess 2015, is taking place from October, 26th to November, 3rd in the city of Bilbao.

The event is a 9-round Swiss FIDE tournament with tempo of play 90′ + 30″.

Top seed is Spaniard GM Francisco Vallejo Pons (2684).

The 6th Ibero-American Chess Championship, part of Bilbao Chess 2015, is taking place from October, 26th to November, 3rd in the city of Bilbao.

The event is a 9-round Swiss FIDE tournament with tempo of play 90′ + 30″.

Top seed is Spaniard GM Francisco Vallejo Pons (2684).

The 15th Sautron Open 2015 takes place from October 24th through October 31st, in Sautron, a city in France.

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

GM Jean-Pierre Le Roux (2572) from France heads the field of 202 players. The first prize is in the amount of 1,600 EUR.

The final stage of the 1st FIDE World Online Amateur Blitz Championship 2015 was held on 15th October, at 13:00 GMT/UTC, on the official FIDE Online platform.

The young Grandmaster Vladislav Artemiev took the winner’s trophy in the Kustov Memorial Rapid tournament after edging Anton Shomoev on tie-break. The two players finished the event with 9,0/11 points each.

The 2015 Haarlem Masters Tournament took place from October 17-25, at the Stedelijk Gymnasium, in Haarlem.

The 2015 SPICE Cup Open, sponsored by Webster University and the Susan Polgar Foundation, was held on 17-22nd October at the Crowne Plaza Clayton Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

The 9-round Swiss tournament was open to the players rated over 2100 FIDE and provided opportunity for GM/IM norms.

The captain of the Webster University team GM Le Quang Liem took a clear first place with 7,0/9 points to win the top prize of 5000 USD.

The World Chess Championship for Disabled 2015 has come to an end. Lakhdar Mazouz of Algeria, Advisor to the FIDE President in chess development in Africa was an official guest of the Round. He has made the first ceremonial move on Board 1 in the game Smirnov vs. Gurbanov. Also, Mr. Mazouz gave an interview having shared his opinion on the organization of the World Championship for Disabled.

The FIDE World Youth Chess Championship 2015 – Open U18 is taking place in Porto Carras, Halkidiki, Greece, from 24th October through 6th November 2015.

The event is an 11-round Swiss open tournament U18. Indian player GM Suri Vaibhav (2561) heads the field of 117 participants from 72 different countries, including 2 GMs and 11 IMs.