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The Chess Olympiad in Budapest still echoes with stories. Within a space of two weeks every team, every player, every arbiter, every delegate, and every volunteer has his own memorable moment. There are two years until the next Chess Olympiad 2026 in Tashkent, so it is enough time to talk to many of the players about their experience in Budapest.

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.

To be in the 2700 club or the 2800 club is a highest aim for any player. However, there is a new prestigious club that everyone wants to be part of – the random chess player club.

It all started with Vishy Anand posting a photo with Gukesh after the double gold for India at the Olympiad and saying, “Just running into a random chess player!” And just like that a trend started on social media.

Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024 finals are going start this September 25. It is the final leg of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour.

The European Individual Chess Championship 2024 will take place 7th to 20th November in Petrovac, Montenegro. Already 338 players have signed up for the event. The European Individual Chess Championship 2024 will boast 259 titled players, 92 GMs, 72 IMs, and 63 FMs.

The popular Twitter/X account OnTheQueenside, which is the place to go for women chess news, has asked a question to the audience, “How you think the Chess.com Champions Chess Tour compares to the old Chess24 Champions Chess Tour?” After 227 votes, 63% of the audience says that the Chess24 version was better, 15% like both, 13% like both, and 11% dislike both.

A star month for GM Vladimir Fedoseev – after defeating Magnus Carlsen with the black pieces at the Round 9 of the Chess Olympiad now he won the Play-in of the Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024. Fedoseev was convincing with 7,0/8, defeating Wesley So along the way.

The top 11 finished of the Play-in move on to Division I Placement, joining the already qualified players

CCT Julius Baer 2024 participants Division 1

The FIDE General Assembly was a blast of important decisions and historic votes. While the lack of democratic discussion and procedures during the Ethics Commission voting was called a farce, some even more suspicious proceedings happened this weekend.

The Vugar Gashimov Memorial 2024 is a 8-player round-robin tournament, held from the 26th to the 27th of September in Shusha, Azerbaijan. Yesterday, Hans Niemann announced that he was going to play but certain players complained, they revoked his invitation. Today, a second player announced that he will not be playing the Vugar Gashimov Memorial 2024.

Hans Niemann won the Titled Tuesday online tournament, ahead of his coach Vladimir Kramnik. This time not only chess spoke for itself, but also Hans Niemann spoke and threw a bomb on stream regarding the Gashimov Memorial.