Σκακιστικά νέα

By Dr. Mehmet Ismail

The Serbian Women Team Chess Championship 2024 is being held from September 27 to October 7 in Nova Varosh, Serbia. A total of 76 players compete in the 11 rounds team event. Тop players include IMs Yuliia Osmak, Leya Garifullina, Olga Badelka, Aleksandra Maltsevskaya, Marina Brunello, Alina Bivol and WGM Shri B Savitha. Scroll down for the full team composition of the Serbian Women Team Chess Championship 2024.

Elon Musk often tweets on the topic of chess. He joked how chess will look if it was released as a video game and even commented on accusations towards Hans Niemann

The Romanian Women Team Chess Championships 2024 is being held from September 30 to October 6 in Mamaia, Romania. The tournament is a round robin with strong participation, including IMs Irina Bulmaga, Ekaterina Atalik, Ulviyya Fataliyeva and WGMs Viktoriya Radeva, Andreea Navrotescu, Michaela Sandu. Scroll down for the full team composition of the Romanian Women Team Chess Championship 2024.

Oskemen Chess Open 2024 is going to be held from October 2 to October 10 in Oskemen, Kazakhstan. The tournament is organized by the Kazakhstan Chess Federation and will be a 10 rounds Swiss event. The top rated players are GMs Manuel Petrosyan, Xiangyu Xu, Aram Hakobyan, Bardia Daneshvar, S.P. Sethuraman, Jakhongir Vakhidov, Jinshi Bai, Timur Gareyev, Denis Makhnev and Kazybek Nogerbek.

The Spanish Senior Chess Championship aka Campeonato de España Veteranos 2024 is going to be held from October 5 to October 13 in Roquetas del Mar, Almeria, Spain. The tournament is going to be 9-rounds Round Robin. Top players will include IMs Josep Anton Lacasa Diaz, Jose Candela Perez, Javier Aguera Nareda, Luis Maria Campos Gambuti, Diego Guerra Bastido and Victor Manuel Vehi Bach. Scroll down for the full participants list.

Live games with analysis from the Spanish Senior Chess Championship 2024 will be daily live on Chessdom in cooperation with Lichess.

A sad news for chess – GM Zenon Franco Ocampos passed away in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, at the age of 68. He was a strong chess player, a motor for chess in his country Paraguay, renowned book author, a FIDE Senior trainer. In the 1982 Chess Olympiad at Lucerne, he won the gold medal at board one by scoring 11 of 13. In the 1990 Chess Olympiad at Novi Sad, he shared first place at board one with 9 points in 12 games.

The strongest chess event ever held in the UK – The Tech Mahindra Global Chess League is taking place 3-12 October in London and features Magnus Carlsen,  Hikaru Nakamura, Vishy Anand, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri, and Ian Nepomniachtchi along with 30 other world-class players including the best female and junior players in the world.

Live games will be daily on Chessdom.com , with video and games coverage

Konstantin Kavutsky has just finished his European adventure. After getting the silver at the Grand Hotel Adriatico, IM Kavutsky visited the Chess Olympiad in Budapest. Now he is back to regular schedule, firmly on the road to GM and concentrated on building the ultimate chess dashboard at ChessDojo

The World Rapid and Blitz 2024 has been widely criticized for the dates chosen and the additional cost burden on the participants. Now Hikaru Nakamura adds to the problems – he says that FIDE is changing the format, “so that they ensure somebody like Magnus Carlsen or myself is in the finals, and potentially winning the tournament”