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The Austrian Chess Bundesliga West 2024/2025 1st Leg will be held from September 27 to March 30 in Austria. The event is a team tournament with 227 players, divided into 12 teams. The top participants include GMs Arik Braun, Zoran Jovanovic, Philipp Schlosser, Mladen Palac, Michael Prusikin and Robert Zelcic. The full list of participants is available below.

The Frauen Austrian Bundesliga 2024/2025 will be held from October 11 to March 30 in Linz, Austria. The event is a team round robin tournament where 226 players, divided into 12 teams, will compete in 11 rounds. The top participants in Frauen Austrian Bundesliga 2024/2025 include GM Anna Muzychuk, GM Nana Dzagnidze, IM Alina Kashlinskaya, GM Aleksandra Kostenyuk, IM Stavroula Tsolakidou, IM Yuliia Osmak, etc. The full list of participants is available below.

The 18th SPICE Cup Open is taking place from October 13 to October 18 in Chesterfield, Missouri, USA. The tournament has 52 participants who will compete in 9 rounds Swiss. The top competitors include GMs Jeffery Xiong, Lazaro Bruzon Batista, Yasser Quesada Perez, Jianchao Zhou, Illya Nyzhnyk, Bharathakoti Harsha and Fidel Corrales Jimenez. Full list of participants in the 18th SPICE Cup Chess Open is available below.

The tournament Central American and Carribean chess championship aka Campeonato Centroamericano y del Caribe 2024 Absoluto is taking place from the October 23 to October 29 in Puerto Rico. In the event 67 players will compete in 9 rounds of Swiss. The top competitors at the tournament include FM Joshua Johnson, FM Edgardo J. Almedina Ortiz, FM David Daniel Camacho Campusano, FM Leandro Jimenez Jimenez and Juan Manuel Jaquez. See the full list of participants below.

List of participants Campeonato Centroamericano y del Caribe 2024 Absoluto

The Chile National Blitz Chess 2024 aka Campeonato Nacional Absoluto de Ajedrez Blitz 2024 tournament is being held on October 12 in Santiago, Chile. The event features 64 players who will compete in 11 rounds Swiss.

Hikaru Nakamura versus Magnus Carlsen ends in a draw in the 6th round of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2024. Replay of the game available below with a special wink to the 1.b3 cowboys.

The Saint Charbel Chess Cup II is taking place from October 8 to October 13 in the city of Morshyn in the Lviv region of Ukraine. The tournament has 10 participants who will play 9 rounds under the Robin system. The top players include GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko, GM Vugar Asadli, IM Danyil Mosesov, IM Sergey Pavlov, IM Andrey Grekh and GM Alexey Kislinsky. Scroll down for the full list of participants.

The 3rd Skyline Chess Open is being held from October 11 to October 14 in Dulles, Virginia, USA. The tournament features 62 players in 9 rounds of Swiss system matches. The top players in the tournament include GM Mark Paragua, Vedic Panda, IM Eshaan Hebbar, Vaibhav Kalpaka and Matthew Guo Diao. Scroll down for the full list of participants.

The fifth Torneo Internacional Club Ajedrez Paterna is happening on October 10 in Paterna, Spain. The tournament consists of two brackets – A and B, who each play to elect their two best players each who face off against four previously qualified for the final, rounding off the top 8. The seeded finalists are IM Diego Macías, GM Jorden Van Foreest, GM Mariya Muzychuk and GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov. Scroll down to see the list of all the participants in the groups.

The Austrian Chess Bundesliga 2024/25 is taking place from October 9 to October 13 in Linz, Austria. There are 2 legs in the competition – one in October 2024 and one in April 2025. The tournament features 226 players who will play 9 rounds of team Swiss. The top players include GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Parham Maghsoodloo, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Dmitry Andreikin, Alexey Sarana, Andrey Esipenko, Nikita Vitiugov, Kirill Alekseenko, Alexander Grischuk and Etienne Bacrot.