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WIM Alina Bivol wins 2015 Russian Girls U20 Championship
The Russian Individual Chess Championship for girls was held from 21-30th April, 2015, in Loo, Russia. The event was a 10-player round-robin tournament and WIM Alina Bivolemerged a clear winner with 7/9 points, leaving the nearest followers full points behind. Bivol...
Dr. John Nunn 60th Birthday Blitz
The winner was Gawain Jones, the youngest player in the very strong sixteen-player line-up (with 14 GMs and equivalent to a category 11 classical chess tournament). Gawain Jones took the £1,000 first prize with an impressive 13/15, losing only...
Player caught for cheating
‘Outside’ help lands chess player in trouble NEW DELHI, April 30, 2015 Updated: April 30, 2015 02:47 IST RAKESH RAO Cheating in chess is rampant with mobile technology increasingly playing a role. Lesser-rated players taking ‘outside’ help during a...
SAS partners with Carlsen
SAS partners with World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen By Iuliia Tore – Apr 30, 2015 SAS has entered into a global partnership with World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen and the company Play Magnus AS. The partnership will help to...
Chessdom Online Academy – Train with a GM
If you love chess and you want to train with top coaches, if you are tired of losing games right from the opening, if you need professional chess players for guidance, all you need to do is join our...
GM Dejan Antic wins 2015 Serbian Chess Championship
Dejan Antic is crowned the 2015 Serbian Chess Champion after edging the last year ChampionAleksandar Indjic on tie-break. The two Grandmasters completed the event with 8,0/11 points each. In the final round Antic defeated the then co-leader GM Branko...
MetLife Warsaw Najdorf Chess Festival
The Polish Chess Federation and Gen. Kazimierz Sosnkowski Chess Foundation have a great pleasure and an honor to invite the players to take part in the MetLife Warsaw Najdorf Chess Festival to be held from the 10th till the...
Open Internacional Ciudad de Móstoles 2015
The 25th International Open Ciudad de Móstoles is set to take place on 1st May at the Polideportivo Rafa Martinez in Móstoles, near Madrid, Spain. The 9-round rapid event with the time control 15 min + 5 sec is...