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The Shymkent Cup Chess Masters GM is taking place from October 26 to November 1 in Shymkent, Kazakhstan. The tournament features 10 players, each of whom will face the others once in 9 rounds Robin. The top contenders in the competition include Evgeny Alekseev, Levan Pantsulaia, Beksultan Moldagali and Eldiyar Orozbaev. The list of participants is available below.

CM Isabelle Yixuan Ning is the winner of the Merv Morrison Chess Memorial 2024. With only a single draw in six rounds Isabelle Yixuan Ning wins it all with 5.5 points. Second place goes to Alphaeus Wei Ern Ang with 5 points, while third place is for Kendrick Botong Zhang with 4.5 points. Hassan Roger Sadeghi, Daqi Mao, Alex Huang and Matthew Ashton also scored 4.5 points, but had inferior tiebreakers.

The Benidorm Chess Open 2024 is taking place from October 27 to November 3 in Benidorm Spain. The tournament has 72 participants who compete in 9 rounds Swiss. The top contenders in the event include Polina Shuvalova, Luis Marcos Medarde Santiago, Andres Merario Alarcon, Felix Jose Ynojosa Aponte, Iulian Sofronie and Victor Garcia Fernandez. Scroll down below for a full list of participants.

The World Amateur Chess Championship 2024 is being held from October 27 to November 4 in Rhodes, Greece. The tournament has 44 participants who face off in 9 rounds Swiss. The top players at the event include Alejandro Castellanos Gomez, Nikoloz Chkhaidze, Tamas Bohati, Tomasz Zebracki and Vitaliy Garbuz. Full list of participants is available below.

Live games of the World Amateur Chess Championship 2024 brought to you in cooperation with Lichess.

TAJFUN SK Ljubljana emerged as the sole Winner of the 28th European Women’s Chess Club Cup after defeating the top seeded Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo in the last round. The match finished with 2.5-1.5 result, as three games concluded in a draw, and IM Olga Badelka (2430, TAJFUN SK Ljubljana) prevailed against IM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (2478, Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo). Scoring 13 match points, TAJFUN SK Ljubljana was one match point ahead of the runner-ups.

Novy Bor Chess Club is the winner of the European Chess Club Cup 2024 with the amazing 13 points. But the fight for the rest of the medals was epic. Vados Chess Club from Arad (Romania), who has just won the 3rd place at the European Club Cup in Serbia, despite starting as a 13th seed in a field of 84 squads. They were the true underdog success story at the European Chess Club Cup.

Novy Bor Chess Club is the winner of the European Chess Club Cup 2024. They scored the impressive 13 match points in a heated competition that had up to seven clubs in contention in the last round.

The World Youth Chess Championship 2024 is scheduled to take place in Floripa, Brazil, 28 October – 10 November. The event will be for U14, U16, and U18 categories, boys and girls respectively.

In the U14 girls category the top rated participants are Kesaria Mgeladze, Zhao Yunqing, Sirin Kalyani, Emilie Negre, Diana Preobrazhenskaya, Oksana Goriachkina, Dimitra Alexandri, and Ines Bernard

World Youth Chess 2024 – U14 girls participants

The World Youth Chess Championship 2024 is scheduled to take place in Floripa, Brazil, 28 October – 10 November. The event will be for U14, U16, and U18 categories, boys and girls respectively.

In the U14 open category the top contenders for the title are Pawel Sowinski, Edgar Mamedov, Sauat Nurgaliyev, Patryk Cieslak, Havard Haug, Kiet Dinh Nho, Haochen Jiang, etc.

World Youth Chess 2024 – U14 open participants

The World Youth Chess Championship 2024 is scheduled to take place in Floripa, Brazil, 28 October – 10 November. The event will be for U14, U16, and U18 categories, boys and girls respectively.

The venue of the event is Hotel Canasvieiras IN, Florianópolis (SC) – Brazil. The tournament will be played using the Swiss System with 11 rounds. The rate of play will be in accordance with the FIDE rules: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves plus 30 minutes to rest of the game, with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.