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The final list of the twelve participants in the first leg of the 2015-2016 Women’s Grand Prix 2015-2016 is published hereunder.

The 8th Memorial Maria Albulet took place from September 10-16, 2015, in Braila, Romania.

The event was a 9-round Swiss female tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 + 15′ + 30″.

The 15 pairs of players who tied their round two matches with the classical time control returned to the playing hall at the Fairmont Flame Towers in Baku to settle the scores in the rapid and blitz games.

The 2015 UAE Men’s chess championship was held from September 4th through September 13th, at Dubai Chess & Culture Club.

The event was a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 moves + 30′ + 30″ and 44 players took part.

The Russian chess player GM Mikhail Antipov beat the representative of Italy IM Francesco Rambaldi in the final 13th round of the FIDE World Junior Under-20 Championship to secure the title World U-20 chess champion.

Antipov edged Polish player GM Jan-Krzystof Duda on a better tie-break score after the latter finished equal in his last-round game against the Dutchman GM Benjamin Bok.

The European Chess Union and Chess in Schools and Communities, a UK registered charity, are joining forces to provide the first ever professional program for social entrepreneurs in chess.

As part of the London Chess Classic with its London Chess and Education Conference 2015 on the theme „Chess and Society“ the best applicants will come together for a professional crash course in social entrepreneurship and a best project competition.

National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus, the Ministry of Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Belarus and Belarus Chess Federation, under the auspices of the European Chess Union organize European Rapid & Blitz C

The IGB International Open Chess Championship headlines the 2015 Malaysian Chess Festival, and this year there are 143 players from 19 countries already signed up!

Amongst them, 11 GMs and 25 IMs out of a total 80 titled players.

Surprisingly it is Indonesia with 31 participants having the largest delegation, Malaysian only second with 28 players with the 23 Filipinos and 21 Indians not far behind, and Australia with 13 the least large delegation.

The Swensen’s Rapid Age Group Championships has become one of the signature events of the Malaysian Chess Festival being held from 18-28 September 2015 at Mid Valley City, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The first round of the FIDE World Chess Cup has just finished and 64 players proceeded to the next stage.

The 24 pairs of players who tied their matches with the classical time control returned to the playing hall at the Fairmont Flame Towers in Baku to settle the scores in the rapid and blitz games.