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The 23rd Poznan Chess Festival is taking place from August 10-17, 2015, in Poznan, a city in west-central Poland. The venue of play is Gmach Główny Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Poznaniu, Poznań, Al. Niepodległości 10.

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

Top seed is Polish player GM Jacek Tomczak (2596), while the first prize is 2,500 PLN.

The VMCG Chess Festival is taking place from August 15-23, 2015, at the 4****Hotel Seminaris, in Luneburg, Germany.

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

Top seed player is GM Sergei Ovsejevitsch (2588) from Ukraine.

The 1st International Tournament “Colossus Chess Cup of Rhodes 2015″ is scheduled to take place from September 1-9, at the luxurious Amathus Hotel & SPA*****, in Rhodes, Greece.

Tomashevsky, Artemiev on Top in Men’s Russian Championship. Lagno, Kosteniuk, Goriachkina Lead Women’s Section

The fifth round of the Russian Championship Superfinal, the 68th for men and the 65th for women, took place in Chita on August 13.

On this day, the Health Academy held a master class for 50 young chess players from Chita. Grandmaster Evgenij Miroshnichenko shared secrets of chess excellence during several hours.

The 2014 – 2015 Portuguese Top League is taking place from August 16th to August 22nd, 2015.

The event is a 10-team round-robin tournament with average rating of 2105. The teams participating in the championship are: AA Coimbra, Santoantoniense FC, GD Dias Ferreira, ADRC Mata de Benfica, GX Porto, AX Gaia, AEJ S. Joao de Madeira, CX Montemor-o-Velho, FC Barreirense and CX A2D.

The 2015 French Women Championship is taking place from August 9-20, 2015, in Saint-Quentin, France.

FIDE announces the Women’s Grand Prix 2015-2016 which will give qualification to the Women’s World Championship match 2017. The schedule of the 4 events is the following:

* 2-16 October 2015 in Monte Carlo, MONACO
* February 2016 in Kish, IRAN
* May 2016 in Tbilisi, GEORGIA
* July 2016 in Chengdu, CHINA

The 1st edition of the African Amateur Individual Chess Championship was held in the prestigious Matola City Village hotel in Maputo, Mozambique from the 31st of July 2015 (arrival) to 10th of August 2015 (departure).

The event was organized by the Mozambican Chess Federation under the auspices of African Chess Confederation.

The 1st International Tournament “Colossus Chess Cup of Rhodes 2015″ takes place from September 1-9, at the Amathus Hotel & SPA*****, in Rhodes, Greece.

The event is organized by Organizing Committee of Rhodes Chess Club “Knight”, in collaboration with Decentralized Administration of South Aegean Region and Municipality of Rhodes in a 9-round Swiss format.