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The 40th Guernsey International Chess Festival will be held on 19-25 October 2014 at the Peninsula Hotel, Guernsey.

The Open Tournament – Sponsored by Intertrust Guernsey

The top two engines of TCEC stage 1a – the defending champion Stockfish (ELO 3168) and the new Gull (ELO 3033) – have their direct encounter today.

The 14th Individual IPCA World Chess Championship was held on 15-24th September 2014 in Banja Junakovic – Apatin, in Serbia.

Rapid games are great for opening news. ‘Grandmasters often prepare unusual opening schemes’, writes Alexey Kuzmin in New In Chess Yearbook 112 that was published this week.

The PokerStars Isle of Man International Chess Tournament is set to take place from 4-12th October at the Villa Marina, Isle of Man.

The event will consist of three sections: Master (9-round Swiss), Major and Minor (7-round Swiss each).

Rate of play: 100 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the remaining moves, with 30 seconds added per move from the start.

The Annual Women’s Tournament Satka Autumn 2014 is organized by Chess Club “Vertical” on 20-30th September 2014 in Satka, a town on the western slope of the Southern Ural Mountains in Russia.

The International Chess Festival Baku Open 2014, dedicated to the Independence Day of Republic of Azerbaijan, is taking place from 21st September to 1st October 2014 at the AF Hotel near Caspian Sea, in Baku, the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan.

75 players from 21 different countries are taking part in the event, including 30 GMs, 14 IMs, 9 FMs, 2 WGMs, 5 WIMs and 3 WFMs.

Top seed is GM Sergei Zhigalko (Belarus) 2677.