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The 2015 French Women Championship is taking place from August 9-20, 2015, in Saint-Quentin, France.

FIDE announces the Women’s Grand Prix 2015-2016 which will give qualification to the Women’s World Championship match 2017. The schedule of the 4 events is the following:

* 2-16 October 2015 in Monte Carlo, MONACO
* February 2016 in Kish, IRAN
* May 2016 in Tbilisi, GEORGIA
* July 2016 in Chengdu, CHINA

The 1st edition of the African Amateur Individual Chess Championship was held in the prestigious Matola City Village hotel in Maputo, Mozambique from the 31st of July 2015 (arrival) to 10th of August 2015 (departure).

The event was organized by the Mozambican Chess Federation under the auspices of African Chess Confederation.

The 1st International Tournament “Colossus Chess Cup of Rhodes 2015″ takes place from September 1-9, at the Amathus Hotel & SPA*****, in Rhodes, Greece.

The event is organized by Organizing Committee of Rhodes Chess Club “Knight”, in collaboration with Decentralized Administration of South Aegean Region and Municipality of Rhodes in a 9-round Swiss format.

The City of Szeged and the Hungarian Chess Federation organize a six-game match between GM Peter Leko (Hungary) and GM Li Chao (China) from 14 to 20 August 2015, at the IH Event Center.

The match is aimed to help Leko prepare for the upcoming World Cup at Baku, and the same time control will be used: 90′X40 moves + 30′ + 30″.

Tournament website

Tomashevsky and Artemiev Lead in Men’s Russian Championship Superfinal, Goriachkina in Women’s

Grandmaster Alexander Shabalov walked through the 116th Annual U.S. Open Chess Championship to convincingly win the event with 8,5/9 points, leaving the nearest followers a full point behind.

Badalona

The 41st Badalona International Chess Tournament took place from August 2-10, 2015, in Badalona, a city in eastern Catalonia, Spain.