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The 2024 edition of the Qatar Masters is going to take place December 3-12 in Doha. Boasting three members of the 2700 club and 20+ players over 2600 Elo (see the participants list below), Qatar Masters is going to be one of the major chess events in the beginning of December. It follows the strong President Cup (replay games here) and happens parallel to the Saint Louis Masters (live games here)

Freestyle Chess is another name for Fischer random chess, otherwise known as Chess960, a variant of chess where there are 958 different possible starting positions. A Freestyle Chess match Carlsen vs Caruana will take place as a preview and warmup for the World Chess Championship 2024. Games will happen 21-22 November in Singapore.

The President Cup is going to take place from 21 to 28 November in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. President Cup is a 9-round Swiss open with $69,000 prize fund and features strong participation including Uzbekistan’s Olympic stars Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Javokhir Sindarov, India’s Abhimanyu Puranik, Murali Karthikeyan, Pranesh , Gupta Sankalp, Rithvik R Raja, Iran’s top players Parham Maghsoodloo and Amin Tabatabaei.

The 2024 Saint Louis Chess Masters is a premier chess event taking place December 3–7, 2024 in the Maryland Ballroom at the Royal Sonesta Chase Park Plaza Hotel, Saint Louis, Missouri. A strong field of 50+ players participate in the chase for valuable FIDE Circuit points, including Fabiano Caruana, Ray Robson, Samuel Sevian, Sam Shankland, Ivan Saric, Grigoriy Oparin, Aryan Chopra, Aram Hakobyan, etc.

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. Game 1 of the World Chess Championship will take place Monday, 25 November.

Karen H. Grigoryan wins the XVIII Figueira da Foz Sabir Ali 2024. Grigoryan scored 7.5 points in 9 rounds. Second place goes to Daniel Alsina Leal with 7 points, separated by tiebreakers from third place Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera. The final standings for all participants are available below.

Final standings XVIII Figueira da Foz Sabir Ali

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.

This game is from Round 2 of the event – Vitaly Sivuk – Dana Kochavi.

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.

This game is from Round 6 of the event – Yotam Shohat – Dana Kochavi.

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.

This game is from Round 8 of the event – Christos Krallis – Dana Kochavi.

The World Chess Championship 2024 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. 33 days remain to the start of the World Chess Championship 2024 and Chessdom begins its countdown.