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The 8th International Chess Festival of the Central University of Bogota is taking place on 9-13th October 2014 in the Colombian capital.

Fabiano Caruana defeated Peter Svidler in the 6th round of FIDE Grand Prix in Baku to move into sole lead with 4,5 points. Yesterday’s co-leader Boris Gelfand was held to a draw by Sergey Karjakin.

The Millionaire Chess Tournament is taking place on 9-13th October 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the USA.

The preliminary list of participants consists of 525 players, including 32 GMs. They will be vying for the hefty prize fund in the amount of 1.000.000 $.

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The 77th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament is set to take place from 9-25th January 2015.

After this year’s success with the individual rounds in the Rijksmuseum and at the High Tech Campus, Tata Steel Masters will once again add two locations as playing venues.

The World Junior Chess Championships 2014 (for boys & girls under 20) are being held in Pune, India, from 6th to 19th October 2014.

The Championship is organized and conducted by Maharashtra Chess Association under the auspices of AICF and FIDE.

Vijay Kumar presents the round 2 video.

The top chess engine championship TCEC is underway with Stage 1a finished and won by Gull and Stage 1b underway with Komodo, Houdini, and Naum as 3000+ ELO engines.

The biggest attention magnet is the new Komodo 8, a version that is ready to challenge last year’s throne of Stockfish. Komodo begins its participation today after 11:00 CET with two consecutive games. First it will take on Junior 13.3 in the last game of round 1, while immediately after starts the first game of round 2 Exchess – Komodo.

The 13th International Chess Open Menton 2014 is taking place on 19-26th October 2014 in Menton, a city in France situated on the French Riviera.

The Washington Chess Congress will be held from October 8-13, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia.

The same venue hosted the 2014 World Open.

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The 18th edition of the traditional Argentinian tournament “Mercosur Cup” will take place on 6-15th October 2014 at the Chess Circle of Villa Martelli in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires.