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The Superfinals of the 68th Men’s Russian Chess Championship and the 65th Women’s Russian Chess Championship will take place between 8 and 21 August in the city of Chita.

The Asian Youth Chess Championships being held in Suwon, Korea from 3-11 August 2015 has now passed the halfway mark, with Open and Girls U-16, U14, U-12, U-10 and U-10 categories all reaching the sixth from nine rounds and Open and Girls U-18 reaching the fifth from seven rounds.

The Asian Continental Chess Championships 2015 are currently in progress in Al Ain, UAE.

Tournament website/ Men’s Tournament LIVE games/ Women’s Tournament LIVE games

Porto Carras aerial view

A FIDE Seminar for International Organizers will be held from 2-4 November, 2015, in Porto Carras, Halkidiki, Greece.

From 23 to 26 July, 2015, a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Larnaca, Cyprus, by the Cyprus Chess Federation, under auspices of FIDE.

The venue of the Seminar was the Culture Center of St. Lazarus Church, in Larnaca.

The lecturer was IA Panagiotis Nikolopoulos (GRE), Chairman of the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer was FA Paris Klerides (CYP).

14 people from Cyprus and Iran participated in the Seminar.

The Asian Continental Chess Championships 2015 are currently in progress in Al Ain, UAE.

Tournament website/ Men’s Tournament LIVE games/ Women’s Tournament LIVE games

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

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

The event is a 9-round Swiss open with prize fund of over 9,000 Euro and first prize in the amount of nearly 2,400 Euro.

The Asian Youth Chess Championship being held in Suwon, Korea from 3-11 August 2015 is providing to be particularly competitive as can be seen after three rounds of play where it is clear that the premier events, Open U-18 and Girls U-18 will be hard fought while Open U-16 could arguably be the strongest.

The Turkish Isbank Chess Super League 2015 is taking place 4-15 August in Kocaeli, Turkey. A total of 14 teams participate, composed of eight main payers and additional reserves.

Top players of the event include GM Wesley So, GM Esen Baris, GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, GM Eltaj Safarli, GM Dragan Solak, GM Pentala Harikrishna, GM Vladislav Artemiev, GM Alexander Ipatov, GM Ivan Cheparinov, GM Ivan Salgado Lopez, GM Ferenc Berkes, GM Anna Ushenina, GM Boris Grachev.