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The Polish Chess Ekstraliga 2024 is being held from October 6 to October 12 in Walbrzych, Poland. The tournament is a 10 team event with 113 players competing in 9 rounds of matches, with each team playing six games per round. The top players in the event include GMs Pentala Harikrishna, Ramus Svane, Nils Grandelius, Ruslan Ponomariov, Matthias Bluebaum, Mateusz Bartel, Szymon Gumularz, Pawel Teclaf, Marcin Krzyzanowski and IMs Jan Klimkowski, Mai Narva, Oliwia Kiolbasa.

The Spanish Team Chess Championship aka Campeonato De España CECLUB División de Honor 2024 is taking place from October 12 to October 18 in Melilla, Spain. The tournament has 82 participants, divided into 8 teams, who will compete in 7 rounds Robin for teams. The top players include GMs Vasyl Ivanchuk, M. Amin Tabatabaei, Chithambaram VR. Aravindh, Vladimir Fedoseev, Jorden Van Foreest, Bogdan-Daniel Deac and Kirill Alekseenko.

The Campeonato De España CECLUB División de Honor 2024 is taking place from October 12 to October 18 in Melilla, Spain. The tournament has 82 participants, divided into 8 teams, who will compete in 7 rounds Robin for teams. The top players include GMs Vasyl Ivanchuk, M. Amin Tabatabaei, Chithambaram VR. Aravindh, Vladimir Fedoseev, Jorden Van Foreest, Bogdan-Daniel Deac and Kirill Alekseenko. Scroll down below for the full list of participants by teams in Campeonato De España CECLUB División de Honor 2024.

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