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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.

The final of the Champions Chess Tour 2024 is in Oslo. The event will take place December 17-21, right before the World Rapid and Blitz Chess 2024.

The top 8 players from this year’s CCT will face off with in live games with audience, after 4 qualification events.

CCT 2024 Oslo, participants

The Asturias Individual Chess Championship – Campeonato Individual de Asturias de Ajedrez – takes place in Marieva Palace Gijón. Playing dates are September 28 , October 5, 12, 19 and November 9, 16, 23, 30.

Top players are FM Daniel Centron Antuna, FM Enrique Alvarez Fernandez, FM Luis David Jimenez Almeida, and FM Iyan Gonzalez Guedes. Scroll down for the full participants list.

Live games from Asturias Individual Chess Championship

Gukesh has the chess moves and he showed it at the recently concluded Chess Olympiad, where India won double gold and Gukesh won individual gold on board 1

Now Gukesh Dommaraju shows he has the dance moves as well, “Manasilayo…with my family friends! Idhu epdi irukku,” he says.

May the Best Player Win is a new book by Kyla Zhao, released worldwide from Penguin Random House this month. Described as a family-friendly version of The Queen’s Gambit, this novel explores the universal themes of gender bias and the pressure to succeed, and how those can affect our passion and self-belief. May the Best Player Win has received rave early reviews from several New York Times-bestselling authors.

Alexander Donchenko won the 2024 edition of the German Blitz Chess Championship. With 25.5/29 and a win over GM Roven Vogel (24.5/29) in the last round, he secured the title! IM Ilja Schneider came third with 21.5/29 points.

Margarita Novikova is German Women Blitz Chess Champion 2024. With 17.5/21 she is 1.5 points ahead of Steffi Arnhold and Kateryna Dolzhykova.

Scroll down for the full standings

The Japan Team Chess Championship 2024 is taking place 28-29 September in Tokyo. The Japan Championship is a 6-round team event with time control 30 min + 30 sec. There are a total of 247 players in the event, with the top rated player being the Olympic players of Japan – FM Mirai Aoshima, IM Shinya Kojima, IM Ryosuke Nanjo, CM Thanh Tu Tran (who won a GM norm at the Olympiad).

The Romanian Team Chess Championships 2024 aka Campionatul National pe Echipe Masculine Superliga is a 9-teams round-robin event. The tournament is organized by FR Sah & CS Tinerii Maestri Bucuresti and takes place in 28th of September to the 6th of October in Constanţa, Romania. Top players include Kirill Shevchenko, Leon Luke Mendoca, Chopra Aryan, Nikolas Theodoru, Adam Kozak, V Pranav, Constantin Lupulescu, Alexander Motylev, etc. Scroll down for the full team composition of the Romanian Team Chess Championships 2024.