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The Chile National Blitz Chess 2024 aka Campeonato Nacional Absoluto de Ajedrez Blitz 2024 tournament is being held on October 12 in Santiago, Chile. The event features 64 players who will compete in 11 rounds Swiss.

Hikaru Nakamura versus Magnus Carlsen ends in a draw in the 6th round of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2024. Replay of the game available below with a special wink to the 1.b3 cowboys.

The Saint Charbel Chess Cup II is taking place from October 8 to October 13 in the city of Morshyn in the Lviv region of Ukraine. The tournament has 10 participants who will play 9 rounds under the Robin system. The top players include GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko, GM Vugar Asadli, IM Danyil Mosesov, IM Sergey Pavlov, IM Andrey Grekh and GM Alexey Kislinsky. Scroll down for the full list of participants.

The 3rd Skyline Chess Open is being held from October 11 to October 14 in Dulles, Virginia, USA. The tournament features 62 players in 9 rounds of Swiss system matches. The top players in the tournament include GM Mark Paragua, Vedic Panda, IM Eshaan Hebbar, Vaibhav Kalpaka and Matthew Guo Diao. Scroll down for the full list of participants.

The fifth Torneo Internacional Club Ajedrez Paterna is happening on October 10 in Paterna, Spain. The tournament consists of two brackets – A and B, who each play to elect their two best players each who face off against four previously qualified for the final, rounding off the top 8. The seeded finalists are IM Diego Macías, GM Jorden Van Foreest, GM Mariya Muzychuk and GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov. Scroll down to see the list of all the participants in the groups.

The Austrian Chess Bundesliga 2024/25 is taking place from October 9 to October 13 in Linz, Austria. There are 2 legs in the competition – one in October 2024 and one in April 2025. The tournament features 226 players who will play 9 rounds of team Swiss. The top players include GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Parham Maghsoodloo, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Dmitry Andreikin, Alexey Sarana, Andrey Esipenko, Nikita Vitiugov, Kirill Alekseenko, Alexander Grischuk and Etienne Bacrot.

The Children’s Chess Week is organized by the Children Cultural and Recreation Center Nis.

GM Denis Kadric issued a statement to Chessdom regarding the recent case of alleged cheating online. Kadric says, “I have a my statement prepared the last 3 days. I was waiting for Chess.com to reply to my email before i publish it. They posted the case before me because I said I will go public with this.”

GM Denis Kadric, playing under the handle Kiborg95, is banned from Chess.com for cheating. “This account has been closed for violating our Fair Play Policy,” says the message of Chess.com. It follows a game where Kadric managed to achieve 90% accuracy, but actually lost in 25 moves vs a similar rated player. In the last 20 games of Kadric on the platform his accuracy ranges between 69 and 90%

The Algerian Individual Chess Champions Final 2024 is being held from October 8 to October 12 in the Olympic Sports Museum in Algeirs. The tournament features 9 rounds of Swiss and 36 competitors. The top players include FM Massinas Djabri, FM Khalil Bengherabi, FM Saadi Araoune, Boutouchent Ghlib, Mohamed Anis Achour and Ala Eddine Boulrens.

Algerian Individual Chess Champions Final 2024 participants