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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.

The 2nd edition of the Festival de Ajedrez Escolar Morelos Lizardi 2024 is taking place on November 9 in Mexico. The tournament has three groups – High school, Middle school and Elementary School. The High school group has 13 participants who will compete in 5 rounds of Swiss. Find out more information on the other groups and a list of all the participants below.

Live games of Festival de Ajedrez Escolar Morelos Lizardi 2024 brought to you in cooperation with Lichess.

The 2nd edition of the Festival de Ajedrez Escolar Morelos Lizardi 2024 is taking place on November 9 in Mexico. The tournament has three groups – High school, Middle school and Elementary School. The High school group has 8 participants who will compete in 5 rounds of Swiss. Find out more information on the other groups and a list of all the participants below.

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Live games of Festival de Ajedrez Escolar Morelos Lizardi 2024 brought to you in cooperation with Lichess.

The 2nd edition of the Festival de Ajedrez Escolar Morelos Lizardi 2024 is taking place on November 9 in Mexico. The tournament has three groups – High school, Middle school and Elementary School. The High school group has 8 participants who will compete in 5 rounds of Swiss. Find out more information on the other groups and a list of all the participants below.

Live games of Festival de Ajedrez Escolar Morelos Lizardi 2024 brought to you in cooperation with Lichess.

The Panamanian Team Chess Championship 2024 is underway from November 8 to November 10 in Panama City. The event features 40 teams with 6 players each for a total of 240 participants. Find below the full list of participants in the event.

Matchess.io is the new mobile chess platform. Matchess comes with a new premise, saying, “Time to play chess like it’s meant to be played: face-to-face, drink in hand”. The mobile app is directed to casual chess players who want to play chess in person. Basically you can find an opponent your level and play chess live. The app also contains a database of chess places and bars where you can meet.

New entries are being sought for an iconic edition of Britain’s most prestigious chess event, the 2024 XTX Markets London Chess Classic, starting on November 29 at Arsenal FC’s Emirates Stadium.

The event’s FIDE Masters tournament, which will take place alongside the main tournament, is open to amateur and professional players alike and currently has an impressive line-up of strong masters.

The Belgian chess player IM Stefan Docx is back on action with weekend. In December 2022, he was given a one-year ban after refusing a metal detector scan at the Benidorm Open. He was disqualified and not paired for the ninth and final rounds, though statistician Kenneth W. Regan was not able to find any evidence of Docx cheating.

Throwback: Stefan Docx in action at the Chess Olympiad

The 35th edition of the Leuven Chess Open will take place from November 8 to November 11 in Belgium. The tournament has 211 participatants who will compete in 7 rounds Swiss. The top participants include Harry Grieve, Stefan Docx, Vilka Sipila, Sim Maerevoet, Rao Sharan, Glen The Schampheleire and Ilya Sirosh. The full list of participants is available below.

The European Individual Chess Championship 2024 is taking place from November 8 to November 19 in Serbia. The tournament has nearly 400 competitors vying for the title in 11 rounds Swiss. The top competitors at the event include Vladimir Fedoseev, Bogdan-Daniel Deac, Jorden Van Foreest, Haik M. Martirosyan, David Navara and Ivan Saric.

Top matches from the first round: