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A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 11 to 13 September 2015 in Panama City, Panama, by the FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess, in cooperation with the Panama Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

From 16 to 20 August 2015 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Kuwait City, Kuwait, by the Kuwait Chess Federation, in cooperation with Abdulla Al-Salem Centre for Leadership Training and under the auspices of FIDE.

The lecturer was IA Mahdi Abdulrahim (UAE), Councilor of the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer was IA Hassan Ramadan (KUW), President of Kuwait Chess Federation.

The lectures were in Arabic language.

The 22nd Abu Dhabi Masters Tournament is taking place from August 23-31, in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The event is a 9-round Swiss FIDE tournament, open for players rated 2000 Elo or above.

147 players from 35 different countries, including 57 Grandmasters, will take part in the competition.

Top seed is GM David Howell of England (2712).

The 76th Armenian Individual Championship is taking place from August 21st to September 3rd, 2015, in the Armenian capital Yerevan.

The event is a 14-player round-robin tournament with tempo of play 90′/ 40 + 30′ + 30″.

Top seed is GM Hovik Hayrapetyan (2467).

Tournament website/ Standings and statistics

The 2015 Serbian Women Team Chess Championship is taking place from August 20-30, in Novi Sad, Serbia.

The 2015 Serbian Team Chess Championship is taking place from August 20-30, at Hotel Sumarice, in Kragujevac, Serbia.

The Mongolian Chess Federation (MCF) organizes the World U-16 Youth Chess Olympiad from August 19-29, 2015, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

A total of 159 players from Australia, Belarus, Canada, China, France, Hungary, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, South Korea, Macau, Mogolia, Palau, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Turkey, United States, and Uzbekistan are participating in the 10 rounds team championship. Rules and regulations here

The 8th Arad International Chess Festival 2015 (Arad Open) took place from August 6 – 12, in Arad, a city in western Romania, situated near Hungarian border, 250 KM from Budapest.

The 90th French Men Championship and 2015 French Women Championship took place from August 9-20, 2015, in Saint-Quentin, France.

The events were played in a 12-player round-robin format and most of the strongest French players participated.

GM Christian Bauer and GM Tigran Gharamian tied for the first place at 7,5 points each and a direct playoff match of two games decided the winner.