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The Croatian Team Chess Championship 2024 is being held from October 5 to October 12 in Veli Losinj, Croatia. There are more than 100 players in 10 teams competing in a round robin. The top players include GMs Ivan Saric, Johan-Sebastian Christiansen, Dmitrij Kollars, Yuriy Kryvoruchko, Ivan Cheparinov, Ante Brkic, Maksim Chigaev, Sergei Movsesian, Alexander Motylev and Evgeny Postny. Scroll down for a full list of participants by teams.

Live games will be daily on Chessdom.com in cooperation with Lichess.

The ECU Trainers Commission organizes the second Seminar for trainers’ education & titles, from 25 November – 5 December 2024. In the Webinar the titles of ECU Expert Coach, or ECU Junior Coach, or ECU Novice Coach, may/will be awarded.

More: ECU Annual Training Program – information and details

The Marsa Matrouh Chess Open 2024 is taking place from October 4 to October 10 in Matrouh, Egypt. Over 50 participants will compete in a 9 round Swiss tournament. The top seeded players include IMs Sayed Barakat Hassan, Walaa Sarwat, Abdul Hameed El Arousy and FMs Ashraf Amin, Yousef A. Alhassadi, Farid Tamer Waguih and Gamal Fayad.

Marsa Matrouh Chess Open 2024 participants

Great Engine Games! One of the best attacks ever! Equisetum-Leela CCC Rating Brawl This video is in the Great Engine Games series! An absolutely glorious attacking game from Equisetum against the mighty Leela Zero! Were there any pieces that weren’t en prise during the game?! Some wonderful attacking chess and some heavenly quiet moves to complete a fantastic win!

The Group A of SixDays Budapest Two Years Chess 2024 has concluded with a victory for FM Reja Neer Manon. Manon managed to secure 6.5 points in 10 rounds of play and was ahead of the competition of Chakraborty Mayank, Balazs Pasztor, Vojtech Plat, Sambit Panda and Ritvik Krishnan.

This makes it yet another event in Budapest after the Chess Olympiad 2024.

Aman Hambleton achieved a beautiful checkmate in an online game. Playing against The_Machine04, Hambleton delivered a checkmate in the starting position.

The 5th Chess Open Internacional La Nucia is taking place in the eponymous La Nucia in Alicante, Spain from October 7 to October 13. There are 64 participants who face off in 9 rounds of Swiss matches. The top players include GMs Sergey Fedorchuk, Pier Luigi Basso, David Nieto Larino, Daniel Campora, James Plaskett, Jacek Stoppa and IMs Dragos Ceres, Diego Saul Rodri Flores Quillas and Lennis Martinez Ramirez. Scroll down for the list of participants in the 5th Chess Open Internacional La Nucia.

The XVIII Obert Vila de Gràcia tournament is being held from September 27 to November 29 in Barcelona, Spain. Nearly 100 players are competing in 9 rounds of Swiss. The top players feature FMs Albert Castillo Damau, Dmitry Zhukov, Ferran Cervello Tost, AGM Ismael Molano Lafuente and Aurelien Arnaud. Scroll down for the full list of participants in the 28th edition of Obert Vila de Gràcia Chess 2024.

Тhe El Llobregat Open Chess 2024 is being held from November 29 to December 8 in Barcelona, Spain. The more than 100 participants are facing off in 10 rounds of Swiss. The top players feature GMs Aram Hakobyan, Venkatharaman Karthik, M Pranesh, Martin Kraemer, Vugar Asadli, Mittal Aditya and IM Rudik Makarian. Scroll down for the full list of participants in the Elllobregat Open Chess 2024.

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