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The 78th Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2016 is taking place from 16-31 January in Wijk Aan Zee, Amsterdam and Utrecht.

The event is a 13th category tournament with an average Elo rating 2569.

Russian Grandmaster Ivan Popov inched closer to the title after settling for a draw with Yuri Solodovnichenko of Ukraine in the ninth and penultimate round of the premier group of

Dubai Chess and Culture Club has opened the registration for the 18^th Dubai Open Chess Tournament – Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup, which will be held from April 10-20, 2016, at the club’s Sheikh Saeed Bin Hamdan Hall.

World Champion Magnus Carlsen is reviewing the chess year 2015 in a 10-minute video recorded at the Play Magnus headquarters.

Today, Russian Sports New Agency (R-Sport) published an interview with Andrey Filatov, President of the Russian Chess Federation, where he stated that ‘talks to hold the 2016 World Chess Championship Match in the US are on hold’.

Agon, which holds rights to organize the match, would like to inform the media that statement by RCF President is not accurate.

The 18^th Dubai Open Chess Tournament – Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup is scheduled to take place from April 10-20, 2016, at the Dubai Chess & Culture Club’s Sheikh Saeed Bin Hamdan Hall.

The Middle East’s longest-running elite chess tournament will be open to all FIDE-rated players with a standard rating of 1500 and above.

The participants will be vying for the prize fund in the amount of US$ 50,000, with US$ 13,000 reserved for the winner.

President of the Russian Chess Federation (RCF) Andrey Filatov talks to “R-Sport” special correspondent Oleg Bogatov, summing up the past chess year and outlining the key tasks for 2016: to win the Candidates’ Tournament in Moscow in March and the World Chess Olympiad in Baku in August.

Second seed Grandmaster Ivan Popov of Russia surged ahead of the field defeating Vitaly Sivuk of Ukraine in the seventh round of the premier section of 14^th Parsvnath Delhi International Chess Festival.

The 15th Rochefort International Chess Festival is set to take place on 20-26th February, 2016, Room Colbert, at the Congress Palace, Rochefort, France.

The organizers have invested big effort to propose an interesting event for all-level players.