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The FIDE World Team Chess Championship is going to take place November 24th – December 6th in Antalya, Turkey. Participants are Armenia, Russia, USA, Germany, Turkey, Azerbaijan, China, Ukraine, Holland, and Egypt.
The tournament is a single round robin with games played daily at 15:00 local time (14:00 CET).

FIDE Master V R Aravindh Chithambaram (8.5) scalped one more Grandmaster and moved into sole lead after the tenth round of the Chennai Grandmaster International Open Chess tournament held in celebration of the FIDE World Championship Match 2013 at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today.

Stockfish – Komodo is the world’s strongest computer chess championship Superfinal. Stockfish won the last qualifying Stage of TCEC, scoring 20,5/30, two and a half points ahead of opposition. The winner of the previous two stages, Komodo, is second with 18,0/30.

Chennai, 21 Nov: A full house and an enthusiastic response greeted the award winning documentary Algorithms about young blind chess players from India, screened at the FIDE World Chess Championship on Thursday evening.

Directed by British filmmaker Ian McDonald and produced by Geetha J for the South Indian production house AkamPuram, Algorithms is the first ever feature documentary on blind chess.

The Italian Chess Championship started Rome, Hotel Villa Maria Regina. It is a 12 players round robin that will go on until December 2nd, 2013.

14-year-old FIDE Master V R Aravindh Chithambaram (7.5) earned his maiden nine game GM norm defeating fellow Indian Grandmaster M R Lalith Babu in the ninth round of the Chennai Grandmaster International Open Chess tournament held in celebration of the FIDE World Championship Match 2013 at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today.

UT Dallas is hosting two Invitational events at Embassy Suits, Dallas, Texas, from 21st to 26th of November.