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The strongest chess event ever held in the UK – The Tech Mahindra Global Chess League is taking place 3-12 October in London and features Magnus Carlsen,  Hikaru Nakamura, Vishy Anand, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri, and Ian Nepomniachtchi along with 30 other world-class players including the best female and junior players in the world.

Live games will be daily on Chessdom.com , with video and games coverage

Konstantin Kavutsky has just finished his European adventure. After getting the silver at the Grand Hotel Adriatico, IM Kavutsky visited the Chess Olympiad in Budapest. Now he is back to regular schedule, firmly on the road to GM and concentrated on building the ultimate chess dashboard at ChessDojo

The World Rapid and Blitz 2024 has been widely criticized for the dates chosen and the additional cost burden on the participants. Now Hikaru Nakamura adds to the problems – he says that FIDE is changing the format, “so that they ensure somebody like Magnus Carlsen or myself is in the finals, and potentially winning the tournament”

Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus is the youngest player to cross 2600 ELO. He achieved this during the Chess Olympiad 2024 playing for the team of Turkiye and finishing 15th there with performance 2636. The exact date when Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus crossed 2600 is 21.09.2024, when he defeated Kacper Piorun.

Leela Chess Zero is the winner of the TCEC Swiss 7, the first event of the Top Chess Engine Championship season. Leela Chess Zero entered as defending Swiss champion finished a point ahead of Stockfish 17 and two points ahead of bronze medalist Ceres in the event dubbed as the strongest in computer chess history.

The teams of India won double gold at the Chess Olympiad 2024. The open team – Arjun Erigaisi, Gukesh D, Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, and Pentala Harikrishna – were captained by Srinath Narayanan. Chessdom.com had the chance to speak to him before the start of the Olympiad and now he kindly agreed to a post-gold medal interview.

Whatever we say about the state of the European chess it will be little. The continent has never had a more stable and clear calendar, with a ton of exciting events (from Corporate Championship to Youth events and Women dedicated events).

Chess Academy of Armenia together with “Royale Signature” LLC and the Chess Academy Club, is organizing Tsaghkadzor Open International Chess Tournament from September 30 to October 6 , 2024 at “Eighty Eight Hotel and Spa” in Tsaghkadzor (Tandzaghbyur 34/1, Kotayk region, Republic of Armenia).

Tsaghkadzor Chess Open is a classical Swiss tournament with time control 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, plus 15 minutes till the end of the game with 30 seconds increment starting from move one.

The team of L’espoir – FM Mirai Aoshima, CM Kan Nakahara, Cocoro Matsumura and Kohei Yonemitsu – are Japan Team Chess Champions. They won the 2024 edition of the competition with perfect team score 6,0/6 in strong competition with 54 teams.

The European Corporate Chess Championship 2024 is organised by the Asnières Le Grand Échiquier club under the patronage of the European Chess Union. The event will take place in Asnières-sur-Seine on 22 and 23 November 2024.