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The nation’s top chess players are set to compete in America’s most prestigious events – the 2024 U.S. Chess Championship and the 2024 U.S. Women’s Chess Championship.

The First League of the Serbian Team Championships 2024 is going to take place from the 27th of September to the 7th of October in Bajina Bašta, Serbia. It is a 12-teams round-robin tournament with strong participants – scroll down for the full list

Live games from the Serbian Team Championships 2024 will be daily on Chessdom.com in partnership with Lichess

The European Women’s Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship will take place in Monte-Carlo, Monaco from 9 to 13 January 2025. The event sets a record prize fund of 46,500 euros

The ECU Board meeting will take place in Monaco at the same time as the championship, and a special ceremony will mark the opening of the ECU’s 40th anniversary celebrations.

Oskemen Chess Open 2024 takes place from 2nd to 10th of October in Kazakhstan. It has a total of 95 titled players, of which 17 GMs and 31 IMs, including top seeded Manuel Petrosyan, Xiangyu Xu, Aram Hakobyan, Bardiya Daneshvar, Jakhongir Vakhidov, S.P. Sethuraman

The Oskemen Chess Open consists of two tournaments. Parallel to the Masters section, there is an open with 75 participants U2100.

Oskemen Chess Open 2024 participants

The Chess Olympiad in Budapest still echoes with stories. Within a space of two weeks every team, every player, every arbiter, every delegate, and every volunteer has his own memorable moment. There are two years until the next Chess Olympiad 2026 in Tashkent, so it is enough time to talk to many of the players about their experience in Budapest.

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.

To be in the 2700 club or the 2800 club is a highest aim for any player. However, there is a new prestigious club that everyone wants to be part of – the random chess player club.

It all started with Vishy Anand posting a photo with Gukesh after the double gold for India at the Olympiad and saying, “Just running into a random chess player!” And just like that a trend started on social media.

Julius Baer Generation Cup 2024 finals are going start this September 25. It is the final leg of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour.

The European Individual Chess Championship 2024 will take place 7th to 20th November in Petrovac, Montenegro. Already 338 players have signed up for the event. The European Individual Chess Championship 2024 will boast 259 titled players, 92 GMs, 72 IMs, and 63 FMs.

The popular Twitter/X account OnTheQueenside, which is the place to go for women chess news, has asked a question to the audience, “How you think the Chess.com Champions Chess Tour compares to the old Chess24 Champions Chess Tour?” After 227 votes, 63% of the audience says that the Chess24 version was better, 15% like both, 13% like both, and 11% dislike both.