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The last 8th FIDE World Online Women Blitz Qualifier is going to be held on Thursday, September 24th, at 13:00 GMT/UTC time. 56 players have already qualified for the Semifinal and only 8 spots are still available.

The 2015/2016 edition of German Bundesliga has started.

Top players are GM Li Chao 2756 (Schwabisch Hall), GM Alexei Shirov 2712 (Baden-Baden).

Official website/ FIDE World Chess Cup 2015

The return games of the third round of the 2015 FIDE World Chess Cup were completed in the Fairmont Flame Towers in Baku.

The sevenh qualifier of the unique FIDE World Online Women Blitz Championship 2015 was being played on Thursday, September 17th, on the official FIDE Online platform.

The third round of the 2015 FIDE World Chess Cup was held today at the Fairmont Hotel in Baku, Azerbaijan, with 32 players that remained in the competition.

The elo differences between the players were not as big as in previous rounds, and consequently many games were drawn.

The FIDE International Organizers Seminar was held from 28-30th August in conjunction with the Uganda Chess Federation with the endorsement of the African Continent and the FIDE Events Commission.

28 new organizers from East African countries participated in this seminar. The main goals of the seminar were to motivate, provide knowledge and create an environment for the new organizers to run chess tournaments and event in East Africa.

The final list of the twelve participants in the first leg of the 2015-2016 Women’s Grand Prix 2015-2016 is published hereunder.

The 8th Memorial Maria Albulet took place from September 10-16, 2015, in Braila, Romania.

The event was a 9-round Swiss female tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 + 15′ + 30″.

The 15 pairs of players who tied their round two matches with the classical time control returned to the playing hall at the Fairmont Flame Towers in Baku to settle the scores in the rapid and blitz games.

The 2015 UAE Men’s chess championship was held from September 4th through September 13th, at Dubai Chess & Culture Club.

The event was a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 moves + 30′ + 30″ and 44 players took part.