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Egyptian Grandmaster Ahmed Adly won the 10th Mediterranean Individual Championships 2015 that was held from 16-25th October at Riviera Grand Hotel in Beirut, Lebanon.

Adly collected 7,5/9 points, leaving the silver medalist GM Mohamed Haddouche (Algeria) and bronze medalist FM Anastasios Pavlidis (Greece) half a point behind.

The 5th edition of the Zurich Chess Challenge is set to take place from 12-15th February 2016 at the Hotel Savoy Baur en Ville in Zurich, Switzerland.

The FIDE World Youth & Cadets Championship 2015 resumed on Monday with the games of round two.

The 6th Ibero-American Chess Championship, part of Bilbao Chess 2015, is taking place from October, 26th to November, 3rd in the city of Bilbao.

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

Top seed is Spaniard GM Francisco Vallejo Pons (2684).

The 6th Ibero-American Chess Championship, part of Bilbao Chess 2015, is taking place from October, 26th to November, 3rd in the city of Bilbao.

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

Top seed is Spaniard GM Francisco Vallejo Pons (2684).

The 15th Sautron Open 2015 takes place from October 24th through October 31st, in Sautron, a city in France.

The event is a 9-round Swiss open tournament with tempo of play 90′/ 40 moves + 30′ + 30″.

GM Jean-Pierre Le Roux (2572) from France heads the field of 202 players. The first prize is in the amount of 1,600 EUR.

The final stage of the 1st FIDE World Online Amateur Blitz Championship 2015 was held on 15th October, at 13:00 GMT/UTC, on the official FIDE Online platform.

The young Grandmaster Vladislav Artemiev took the winner’s trophy in the Kustov Memorial Rapid tournament after edging Anton Shomoev on tie-break. The two players finished the event with 9,0/11 points each.

The 2015 Haarlem Masters Tournament took place from October 17-25, at the Stedelijk Gymnasium, in Haarlem.