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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 FIDE World Chess Championship 2024 will be a 14 games match between the reigning world champion Ding Liren and the challenger Gukesh D to determine the World Chess Champion. The match is scheduled to take place between November 23 and December 15, 2024, with Singapore hosting the match. Google was announced as Title Sponsor of World Chess Championship 2024.

Gukesh D, the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2024, has arrived at Chennai airport with the medals and trophies from the Olympiad. Gukesh comes home with the India title, the Gaprindashvili Cup, and a gold medal on board 1

The teams of India win double gold at the Chess Olympiad 2024. One of the stars of the team was Arjun Erigaisi. He goes home with the India title, the Gaprindashvili Cup, and a gold medal on board 3.

Chess Bundesliga 2024 – 2025 aka Schachbundesliga is the top club national championship of Europe. 16 teams compete in weekend events with classical time control to determine the club champion of Germany.

The season is divided into seven double rounds, which will be held on Saturdays from 2 pm and on Sundays from 10 am.

Live games from Schachbundesliga will be daily on Chessdom.com

The Vugar Gashimov Memorial 2024 is a 8-player round-robin tournament, held from the 26th to the 27th of September in Shusha, Azerbaijan. Players include Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, who recently won gold with India, Vladislav Artemiev, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Richard Rapport, Aydin Suleymanli, Ian Nepomniachtchi.

The Jerusalem Chess Open will take place parallel to Jerusalem Masters 2024 and the record 1000 games simul. It is a 309 players tournament with 61 titled players, of which 12 GMs and 19 IMs.

Jerusalem Chess Open participants

GM Johan-Sebastian Christiansen, board 2 of team Norway at the recently concluded Chess Olympiad 2024 was a guest at the Sjakksnakk podcast. There GM Johan-Sebastian Christiansen expresses his disappointment over the changes made to this year’s World Rapid and Blitz Championship. “I am extremly disappointed of how things have turned out.

Jergus Pechac is the winner of Slovakia Chess Open. Pechac won the exe Slovakia Chess Open in Bratislava with 7,5/9. With the same points is Israel’s junior Yuval Yaniv, but better tiebreak gave the title to Jergus Pechac.

A total of 160 players competed in the event. Top woman of the event is WFM Svenja Butenandt with 5,5/9.

In a video for Chessbase India, Kramnik talks about coaching Niemann, Abdusattorov, and the Uzbekistan team. Vladimir Kramnik speaks Chessbase India at the closing ceremony of the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2024. Kramnik was the coaching of the young Uzbekistan team that won the bronze medal. Kramnik speaks about Abdusattorov, why he considers the Uzbek GM to be the absolute best. He also talks about Gukesh, Pragg and Hans Niemann. An interesting interview.