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The World Chess Championship 2024 – Gukesh vs Ding Liren is set to take place between November 25 and December 13, 2024, in Singapore. This event will feature a match between the reigning world champion, Ding Liren from China, and the challenger, Gukesh Dommaraju from India, to determine who will be the World Chess Champion 2024. Game 1 of the World Chess Championship will take place Monday, 25 November.

Since 2018 the key place to understand games of the World Chess Championship has been Agadmator. Antonio Radić is the Croatian YouTuber and chess player, who’s Youtube channel has loyal 1,3M subscribers and has raked 778,645,854 views (average 190 000 views per video) . Agadmator’s channel is the one with the balanced objective view and analysis of the key moments of the game.

Detailed analysis of each Gukesh – Ding Liren game will be published by Agadmator daily, right after the conclusion of round.

Aryan Tari is triumphant in the 12th International Copa Revolucion 2024 Primera Fuerza division. Tari scored 7.5 points in 9 rounds, ahead of second place Juan Carlos Obregon Rivero with 7 points and Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara with 6.5 points. Marta Garcia Martin was the best performing woman in thhe competition, placing 4th with 6.5 points. The final standings for all participants in this division are available below.

Sebastian Felipe Sanchez wins the 12th International Copa Revolucion 2024 Magistral division. Sanchez accumulated 6.5 points in 9 rounds. Jose Fernando Cuenca Jimenez placed second with 6 points, while Kevin Joel Cori Quispe was third with 5.5 points. The final standings are available below.

Denis Makhanev and Ekaterina Goltseva won, respectively, the Kazakhstan Chess Cup Finals Men 2024 and Kazakhstan Chess Cup Finals Women 2024. In this knockout style tournament, Makhanev defeated Ramazan Zhalmakhanov in the final games, while Goltseva triumphed over Liya Kurmangaliyeva. Check out the finals and replays of all the stages here:

The 10th Heusenstamm Sparkassen Chess Open is taking place from November 21 to November 24 in Heusenstamm, Germany. The event features more than 250 players competing in 7 rounds Swiss. The top rated players include Karen H. Grigoryan, Vitaly Sivuk, Alexander Krastev, Li Min Peng and Ruben Gideon Köllner. The list of participants in the 10th Heusenstamm Sparkassen Chess Open is available below.

Live games of the 10th Heusenstamm Sparkassen Chess Open brought to you in cooperation with Lichess:

The 2024 edition of the Qatar Masters is going to take place December 3-12 in Doha. Boasting three members of the 2700 club and 20+ players over 2600 Elo (see the participants list below), Qatar Masters is going to be one of the major chess events in the beginning of December. It follows the strong President Cup (replay games here) and happens parallel to the Saint Louis Masters (live games here)

Freestyle Chess is another name for Fischer random chess, otherwise known as Chess960, a variant of chess where there are 958 different possible starting positions. A Freestyle Chess match Carlsen vs Caruana will take place as a preview and warmup for the World Chess Championship 2024. Games will happen 21-22 November in Singapore.

The President Cup is going to take place from 21 to 28 November in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. President Cup is a 9-round Swiss open with $69,000 prize fund and features strong participation including Uzbekistan’s Olympic stars Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Javokhir Sindarov, India’s Abhimanyu Puranik, Murali Karthikeyan, Pranesh , Gupta Sankalp, Rithvik R Raja, Iran’s top players Parham Maghsoodloo and Amin Tabatabaei.

The 2024 Saint Louis Chess Masters is a premier chess event taking place December 3–7, 2024 in the Maryland Ballroom at the Royal Sonesta Chase Park Plaza Hotel, Saint Louis, Missouri. A strong field of 50+ players participate in the chase for valuable FIDE Circuit points, including Fabiano Caruana, Ray Robson, Samuel Sevian, Sam Shankland, Ivan Saric, Grigoriy Oparin, Aryan Chopra, Aram Hakobyan, etc.