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The Ibiza Chess Festival 2024 is being held from October 10 to October 13 in Sant Antoni de Portmany, Spain. The event has 25 players who will compete in 7 rounds Swiss. The top participants include FM Emanuele Carlo, FM Andrea Amato, FM Christian Palozza, Federico Casagrande, Adria Mari Copa, Azizaj Agim and Angelika Valkova. Scroll down for the full list of participants in Ibiza Chess Festival 2024.

The Brazilian Rapid Chess Championship 2024 is taking place on October 10 in Manaus, Brazil. The event features 50 players competing in 7 rounds Swiss. The event is a prelude to the Manaus Chess Open 2024. The top competitors include IM Diego Rafael Di Berardino, IM Roberto Junio Brito Molina, FM Lucas Do Valle Cardoso, CM Matheus Mendes Domingues Ribeiro and FM Edgar Rodrigues.

The Brazilian Rapid Chess Championship 2024 is taking place on October 10 in Manaus, Brazil. The event features 50 players competing in 7 rounds Swiss. The event is a prelude to the Manaus Chess Open 2024. The top competitors include IM Diego Rafael Di Berardino, IM Roberto Junio Brito Molina, FM Lucas Do Valle Cardoso, CM Matheus Mendes Domingues Ribeiro and FM Edgar Rodrigues.

The Manaus Chess Open 2024 is taking place from October 11 to October 17 in the city of Manaus, Brazil. The tournament features 127 players competing in 9 rounds of Swiss. The top players at the event include GM Rafael Leitao, GM Alexandr Fier, GM Renato R. Quintiliano, GM Neuris Delgado Ramirez, GM Evandro Amorim Barbosa, IM Diego Rafael Di Berardino, GM Gabriel Flom, GM Yago De Moura Santiago, GM Luis Galego and GM Andres Rodriguez Vila.

The 6th General Assembly of the Turkish Chess Federation (TCF) was held on Wednesday, October 9, at Ankara Green Park Hotel. Gülkız Tulay, who was elected as the TCF president on November 5, 2012 and served Turkish chess for 12 years, handed over the presidency to Fethi Apaydın. Fethi Apaydın was the only candidate for the Presidency at the General Assembly, who received 135 of 149 votes, became Turkish Chess Federation President.

The second leg of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix Series 2024-2025 is set to take place in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, from October 29 to November 9, 2024, with an exciting line-up of some of the strongest female chess players in the world who will face off in a 9-round round-robin tournament.

The Weissenhaus Young Masters 2024 chess tournament is happening from October 14 to October 18 in Germany. The event is a 10 participants round robin. The top competitors at this event include GMs Pavel Eljanov, S.P. Sethuraman, Christian Bauer, Sune Berg Hansen, Kaido Kulaots, IMs Marius Deuer, Leonardo Costa, Benedict Krause, FMs Hussain Besou and Christian Glöckler.

Live games of the Weissenhaus Young Masters 2024 will be daily on Chessdom.com

The London Chess Classic 2024 will take place from November 29th to December 7th at the Emirates Stadium, London, home to Arsenal Football Club. This is the 14th edition of Chess in Schools and Communities flagship event and this year it will be sponsored by XTX Markets.

The Bundesliga Chess Ost (East) 2024/2025 1st Leg will be held from October 11 to March 23 in Wien, Austria. The event is a team tournament where 221 players, divided into 12 teams, will partake in competition over 11 rounds under the Round Robin for teams system. The top participants include GMs Rainer Buhmann, Tomas Polak, Georgy Arzumanian, Nikolaus Stanec and IMs Albert Bokros and Istvan Sipos. The full list of participants by team is available below.

The Bundesliga Mitte Aut Second Division Chess 2024/2025 will be held from October 18 to April 20 in Fürstenfeld, Austria. The event is a team tournament where 226 players, divided into 12 teams, will compete in 11 rounds under the Round Robin for teams system. The top participants in the event include Bence Korpa, Hrvoje Stevic, Oliver Mihok, Robert Ruck, Jan Subelj and Vlastimil Babula. The full list of participants is available below.