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The SDS-Narzan Tournament is taking place from August 2-10, 2015, in Kislovodsk, is a spa city in Stavropol Krai, Russia.

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

Top seed is Oleg Diviakov (2142).

Tournament website/ Standings and statistics

The 10th and last player to join the incredible line-up of the 7th London Chess Classic is none other than England’s number 1, Michael Adams.

It is no surprise the Englishman is the recipient of the organisers’ wildcard, seeing as he has been the English number one since 1999 and was once ranked number 4 in the world.

The 4th “Lviv Tradition” chess tournament was held from July 27, through August 1, 2015, at the Hotel Nton, in the splendid city of Lviv, situated in western Ukraine.

The event was a 10-player round-robin tournament with an average Elo rating of 2230.

Top seed IM Dmitry Mischuk emerged a convincing winner with 6,5/9 points, leaving the nearest followers a full points behind.

The 2015 Asian Women Continental is taking place from August 2-10, in Al Ain, UAE.

The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with cash prizes for the top 30 places.

The women’s champion will be awarded $6,000 and will represent Asia in the FIDE Women’s World Championship.

Top seed is Chinese player WGM Tan Zhongyi (2512).

The Asian Continental Chess Championship has started in Abu Dhabi today with a strong field. Top seeded are the Vietnam GMs Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, followed by the Indian stars Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, Sasikiran Krishnan, Sethuraman S.P., and Ganguly Surya Shekhar. There are a total of 36 GMs and 11 IMs from 28 participant countries.

The Russian Junior Team Championship is taking place August 1-11 in Sankt Petersburg.

Each team consists of four players, of which one should be girl. Top players among the 128 participants include GM Grogoriy Oparin, GM Kirill Alekseenko, IM Vladimir Zakhartsov, IM Alexey Zenzera, IM Maksim Vavulin, FM Konstantin Savenkov, WFM Anna Styazhkina, etc.

All games with statistics and analysis

The prestigious FIDE World Online Women Blitz Championship 2015 continued on Thursday with the third qualifier tournament being p

The 19th Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament is taking place from August 1-8, at the University of Applied Sciences in Vlissingen, the Netherlands.

The 9-round Swiss Open is organized by Stichting Schaak Walcheren. The FIDE Laws will apply, except article 6.6a. Top prizes are EUR 2000 / 1300 / 800 / 500 / 400.

242 players from 15 federations are registered to take participation. Among them are 11 Grandmasters and 12 International Masters. List below.

Youth chess tournament “Jednaki u svemu” was held from 27-29th July at the Hotel Zeleni Vir in Niš, Serbia.

40 kids competed in 7-round tournament with the standard time control. Tijana Petrovic from Požarevac is the overall winner with 6,5/7 points.

Winner of all age groups are awarded with trophies and medals. Standings below.

The International Open Chess Tournament Nona Gaprindashvili Cup is scheduled to take place from 8-17th September at the Chess Palace in Tbilisi, Georgia.