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Leela Chess Zero is the winner of the TCEC Swiss 7, the first event of the Top Chess Engine Championship season. Leela Chess Zero entered as defending Swiss champion finished a point ahead of Stockfish 17 and two points ahead of bronze medalist Ceres in the event dubbed as the strongest in computer chess history.

The teams of India won double gold at the Chess Olympiad 2024. The open team – Arjun Erigaisi, Gukesh D, Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, and Pentala Harikrishna – were captained by Srinath Narayanan. Chessdom.com had the chance to speak to him before the start of the Olympiad and now he kindly agreed to a post-gold medal interview.

Whatever we say about the state of the European chess it will be little. The continent has never had a more stable and clear calendar, with a ton of exciting events (from Corporate Championship to Youth events and Women dedicated events).

Chess Academy of Armenia together with “Royale Signature” LLC and the Chess Academy Club, is organizing Tsaghkadzor Open International Chess Tournament from September 30 to October 6 , 2024 at “Eighty Eight Hotel and Spa” in Tsaghkadzor (Tandzaghbyur 34/1, Kotayk region, Republic of Armenia).

Tsaghkadzor Chess Open is a classical Swiss tournament with time control 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, plus 15 minutes till the end of the game with 30 seconds increment starting from move one.

The team of L’espoir – FM Mirai Aoshima, CM Kan Nakahara, Cocoro Matsumura and Kohei Yonemitsu – are Japan Team Chess Champions. They won the 2024 edition of the competition with perfect team score 6,0/6 in strong competition with 54 teams.

The European Corporate Chess Championship 2024 is organised by the Asnières Le Grand Échiquier club under the patronage of the European Chess Union. The event will take place in Asnières-sur-Seine on 22 and 23 November 2024.

The final of the Champions Chess Tour 2024 is in Oslo. The event will take place December 17-21, right before the World Rapid and Blitz Chess 2024.

The top 8 players from this year’s CCT will face off with in live games with audience, after 4 qualification events.

CCT 2024 Oslo, participants

The Asturias Individual Chess Championship – Campeonato Individual de Asturias de Ajedrez – takes place in Marieva Palace Gijón. Playing dates are September 28 , October 5, 12, 19 and November 9, 16, 23, 30.

Top players are FM Daniel Centron Antuna, FM Enrique Alvarez Fernandez, FM Luis David Jimenez Almeida, and FM Iyan Gonzalez Guedes. Scroll down for the full participants list.

Live games from Asturias Individual Chess Championship

Gukesh has the chess moves and he showed it at the recently concluded Chess Olympiad, where India won double gold and Gukesh won individual gold on board 1

Now Gukesh Dommaraju shows he has the dance moves as well, “Manasilayo…with my family friends! Idhu epdi irukku,” he says.

May the Best Player Win is a new book by Kyla Zhao, released worldwide from Penguin Random House this month. Described as a family-friendly version of The Queen’s Gambit, this novel explores the universal themes of gender bias and the pressure to succeed, and how those can affect our passion and self-belief. May the Best Player Win has received rave early reviews from several New York Times-bestselling authors.