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The European Individual Youth Chess Championships 2014 are taking place on 18-29th October 2014 in Batumi, Georgia.

989 players from 43 different European federations will take part in the event. Each Group will be a separate 9-round Swiss tournament with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds increment starting from move 1.

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The European Individual Youth Chess Championships 2014 are taking place on 18-29th October 2014 in Batumi, Georgia.

989 players from 43 different European federations will take part in the event. Each Group will be a separate 9-round Swiss tournament with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds increment starting from move 1.

Official website

The European Individual Youth Chess Championships 2014 are taking place on 18-29th October 2014 in Batumi, Georgia.

989 players from 43 different European federations will take part in the event. Each Group will be a separate 9-round Swiss tournament with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds increment starting from move 1.

Official website

The Russians were not ready to be dismissed by the Chinese and rose to the occasion in the 12th and penultimate round of the LIC World Junior Chess Championship which is in the concluding stages at Hotel Hyatt in Pune.

Alexandra Goryachkina scored a thumping Grand Double, successfully defending her title which she won at Turkey last year with a round to spare in the Girls section by defeating Srija Seshadri.

A new book has recently hit the market exploring, very extensively, an unknown territory in the battle against the Queen’s Indian.

The Nimzowitsch Variation with 6.d5, has been used on occasions, by a few players, Shirov being its main promulgator. The line is complex and daring and has not found too large a following. But, even less has it been analysed in a deeper study or a manual.

The miss has been noted by a young Hungarian GM, Imre Hera, who took it to task to bring this sharp, exciting gambit closer to a wider chess audience. And what a wonderful job he did!

The World Junior Chess Championships 2014 (for boys & girls under 20) are being held in Pune, India, from 6th to 19th October 2014.

The Championship is organized and conducted by Maharashtra Chess Association under the auspices of AICF and FIDE.

Vijay Kumar presents the round 11 video.

The strongest Team Chess Championship Schachbundesliga 2014/15 is taking place in Germany in a 16 teams round-robin format.

The list of the teams consists of: USV TU Dresden, SK Schwäbisch Hall, SSC Rostock 07, SC Hansa Dortmund, FC Bayern München, Hamburger SK, OSG Baden-Baden, SC Eppingen, SF Berlin 1903, SF Katernberg, SG Solingen, SG Trier, SK Turm Emsdetten, SV 1930 Hockenheim, SV Mülheim Nord and Werder Bremen.

The Second Stage of FIDE Grand Prix Series 2014-2015 is held from 20th October to 3rd November 2014 in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.

The event is a twelve player round-robin tournament with an average rating of 2752.

The World Junior Chess Championships 2014 (for boys & girls under 20) are being held in Pune, India, from 6th to 19th October 2014.

The Championship is organized and conducted by Maharashtra Chess Association under the auspices of AICF and FIDE.

Vijay Kumar presents the round 10 video.