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The 5th Annual Austin Chess Club Championship was held on 2-4th January, 2015, at the Bridge Center of Austin, 6700 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, Texas, USA.

The 3rd Annual Boston Chess Congress will be held from 9-11th January, 2015, at the Hyatt Harborside at Logan Airport, 101 Harborside Dr, Boston, Massachusetts.

The event has 6 sections: Premier, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500 and Under 1300. All sections have either 3-day (January 9-11) or 2-day (January 10-11) schedules to play in.

The event has a $12,000 prize fund, based on 220 paid entries, with $8,000 minimum guaranteed.

The Gulf Coast New Year’s Open was held from 2-4th January, 2015, at the Holiday Inn Fort Myers Airport in Fort Myers, Florida, USA.

The tournament format was 5-round Swiss in six sections: Open (FIDE rated), U2100, U1800, U1600, U1350 and U1100.

The 13th Parsvnath International Chess Festival is taking place on 9-16th January 2015 in the Ludlow Castle Sports Complex, New Delhi, India.

The Chess World Cup 2015 will be played in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 10 September to 4 October 2015. It will be a 128-player knockout chess tournament. The finalists will qualify for the 2016 Candidates Tournament.

The Chrstmas Blitz Tournament 2015 took place on 7th January 2015 in Saint Petersburg, the second largest city of Russia.

The 11-round Blitz tournament with time control 5” gathered 80 players, including 3 GMs, 7 IMs, 3 FMs and 1 WFM.

IM Vadim Moiseenko and IM Egor Pakhomov shared first with 9/11 points, but Moiseenko prevailed on a better tie-break score and took the gold.

GM Maxim Novik finished clear third with 8,5 points. You can see the full standings below.

India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive Highlights of the Qatar Masters Open 2014 on its DD Sports Channel from 11-14th January, 2015.

Filmed and Produced by Vijay Kumar the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under:

From 26 to 28 November 2014 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Colombo, Sri Lanka by the Sri Lanka Chess Federation in cooperation with the Commission for Women’s Chess and under the auspices of FIDE.

The venue was the Royal College in Colombo.

The Lecturer was IA Franca Dapiran (ITA), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer was IA Luxman Wijesuriya (SRL).

The lectures were in English language.