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The North American Junior Chess 2024 is taking place 14 – 18 August in Best Western Premier Calgary Plaza Hotel & Conference Centre, Alberta, Canada. A total of 124 players participate in the open section and 36 in the girls section. Top seeded players are Liran Zhou, Jason Liang, Laurie Qiu, Samrug Sarayanan, Sahana Aravindakshan, Jonathan Han, Chloe Gaw, etc. The event is 9 Rounds Swiss System, Game in 90 minutes plus 30 second increment per move starting from Move 1.

Spilimbergo 2024 is taking place from 9–15 August 2024 in Spilimbergo, Italy. Top players include Daniel Dardha, Sabino Brunello, Pier Luigi Basso, Alberto David, Mahdi Gholami, Marcin Tazbir, etc. Live games will be daily on Chessdom

Dortmund Chess 2024 is taking place from 10–18 August 2024 in Dortmund, Germany. Top players incude Anton Korobov, Frederik Svane, Christopher Woojin Yoo, Sasikiran Krishnan, Luis Quesada Peréz, Evgeny Romanov, etc.

Parallel tournaments live: Tbilisi Women Grand Prix 2024 / Spilimbergo 2024 / Hans Niemann – Nikita Vitiugov

Hans Niemann has challenged three top players in an event branded as Hans Niemann vs the World series. After defeating Anish Giri in Utrecht, the Niemann will travel to London to face Nikita Vitiugov, the top English chess players. Niemann – Vitiugov will consist of 6 classical (two per day), 6 rapid, and 12 blitz games. Games will be daily live on Chessdom.

WGP Series consists of six Women’s Grand Prix tournaments held over two years 2024-2025. A total of twenty players compete in the WGP series, as each Women Grand Prix event will have ten participants. The competitors of the first leg of the Women Grand Prix in Tblisi are Anna Muzychuk, Mariya Muzychuk, Nana Dzagnidze, Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, Alexandra Kosteniuk, R Vaishali, Alina Kashlinskaya, Lela Javakhishvili, Bibisara Assaubayeva, and Stavroula Tsolakidou.

Hans Niemann is in London to face Nikita Vitiugov, the top English chess players. Niemann – Vitiugov will consist of 6 classical (two per day), 6 rapid, and 12 blitz games. All games live here

Hans Niemann – Nikita Vitiugov game 1

WGP Series consists of six Women’s Grand Prix tournaments held over two years 2024-2025. A total of twenty players compete in the WGP series, as each Women Grand Prix event will have ten participants.

The competitors of the first leg of the Women Grand Prix in Tblisi are Anna Muzychuk, Mariya Muzychuk, Nana Dzagnidze, Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, Alexandra Kosteniuk, R Vaishali, Alina Kashlinskaya, Lela Javakhishvili, Bibisara Assaubayeva, and Stavroula Tsolakidou.

The league stage of the Top Chess Engine Championship (Season 25) reaches the pinnacle of the event – the Premier Division. The defending champion Stockfish will meet its main competitor Leela Chess Zero, as well as six more of the strongest chess engines: four seeded participants – KomodoDragon, Ethereal, Stoofvlees, Slowchess – and the two qualified from L1 – Rubichess and Igel.

Wesley So – Alireza Firouzja is a semifinal game from Julius Baer Generation Cup Div 1 Winners

Fabiano Caruana – Magnus Carlsen is a semifinal game from Julius Baer Generation Cup Div 1 Winners