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Super Grandmasters Hikaru Nakamura and Levon Aronian return to the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis for four classical games of chess and 16 Blitz.

GM Erwin L’Ami and IM Robert Ris provide daily video analyzes of the World Chess Championship for Chessity. Here are the game 7 and 8 recaps. Visit the Chessity blog for more articles and info.

Game 7

The European Individual Chess Championship 2015 is scheduled to take place from 23rd February to 8th March, 2015, at the Jerusalem Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem, Israel.

The event is organized by the Israel Chess Federation and Municipality of Jerusalem under the auspices of the European Chess Union.

The reigning TCEC Grand champion Stockfish , modification 091114, maintains the lead in TCEC Season 7 – Stage 3.

The 2nd Behin Bazafarin Cup 2014 is taking place on 15-22nd November 2014 in Tehran, the capital of Iran and the largest city in Western Asia.

The event is organized by the Iranian Chess Federation in a 9-round Swiss format with time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds increment starting from move one.

The UAE Chess Federation & Sharjah Chess and Cultural Club, on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and FIDE organize the 2014 Sharjah – Capital of Islamic Culture Individual Women Chess Tournament on 14-24th November 2014 in Sharjah, UAE.

The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with first prize in the amount of 3.000 $.

Top seed is Kazakh WGM Dinara Saduakassova (2421).

The German Masters Women Individual Chess Tournament 2014 is organized by the German Chess Federation in collaboration with the Dresden Chess Festival and Meissen UKA on 16-24th November 2014.

The event is taking place at Wyndham Garden Hotel in Dresden, the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.

European Chess Union is creating the new official website, which is currently in a test version.

The site will operate under the historic ECU domain name www.europechess.org which is in the availability of the ECU administration.

Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand came two moves short of breaking the record for longest World Championship game.