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The 1st Annual Cleveland Classic will take place on 24-26th October at the Sheraton Cleveland Airport Hotel, 5300 Riverside Drive, Ohio, USA.

The event will have four sections: Open, U2000, U1700 and U1400. The playing format is 5-round Swiss with the time control 30/90, SD/60 d5.

The prize fund is USD 6000, guaranteed.

Open: $2000-650-350, top U2200/Unrated $500
U-2000, U-1700: $500-$250
U-1400: $500-250 (top U1100 $150)
Highest scoring female player (any section): $100

Stage 1b of the Top Computer Chess Championship (TCEC) is currently underway and there is little surprise: Houdini 4 and Komodo 8 are clearly dominating the field. After 10 rounds Houdini has the amazing 9,5/10, closely followed by Komodo with 9,0/10.

FIDE World Chess Championship 2014 between the World Champion Magnus Carlsen and the Challenger Viswanathan Anand is going to take place November 7th to November 28th, 2014.

The games of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2014 begin with round 1 on the 8th of November. The drawing of colors will happen two days earlier at the opening ceremony.

The second stage of the FIDE Grand Prix series 2014-2015 will take place from 20th October until 2nd November in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

The European Individual Youth Chess Championships 2014 are taking place on 18-29th October 2014 in Batumi, Georgia.

989 players from 43 different European federations will take part in the event. Each Group will be a separate 9-round Swiss tournament with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds increment starting from move 1.

Official website

The European Individual Youth Chess Championships 2014 are taking place on 18-29th October 2014 in Batumi, Georgia.

989 players from 43 different European federations will take part in the event. Each Group will be a separate 9-round Swiss tournament with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds increment starting from move 1.

Official website

The European Individual Youth Chess Championships 2014 are taking place on 18-29th October 2014 in Batumi, Georgia.

989 players from 43 different European federations will take part in the event. Each Group will be a separate 9-round Swiss tournament with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds increment starting from move 1.

Official website

The Russians were not ready to be dismissed by the Chinese and rose to the occasion in the 12th and penultimate round of the LIC World Junior Chess Championship which is in the concluding stages at Hotel Hyatt in Pune.

Alexandra Goryachkina scored a thumping Grand Double, successfully defending her title which she won at Turkey last year with a round to spare in the Girls section by defeating Srija Seshadri.

A new book has recently hit the market exploring, very extensively, an unknown territory in the battle against the Queen’s Indian.

The Nimzowitsch Variation with 6.d5, has been used on occasions, by a few players, Shirov being its main promulgator. The line is complex and daring and has not found too large a following. But, even less has it been analysed in a deeper study or a manual.

The miss has been noted by a young Hungarian GM, Imre Hera, who took it to task to bring this sharp, exciting gambit closer to a wider chess audience. And what a wonderful job he did!