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To celebrate the end of the Jerusalem Masters 2024, which will be played on September 24th to 25th, a massive simultaneous game will be held on Thursday the 26th in Safra square, Jerusalem, with 1000 people playing against the best Israeli players!

Jerusalem Chess Masters 2024 is going to take place 24-25 September in Jerusalem, Israel. It is a rapid round robin including 5 players from the Israeli national team and 5 players amongst the top chess players in the world. Jerusalem Chess Masters 2024 features Peter Svidler, Pavel Eljanov, Daniil Dubov, Vasyl Ivachuk, Jorden Van Foreest, Maxim Rodshtein, Ilia Smirin, Evgeny Postny, Avital Boruchovsky, Ido Gorshtein

The German Women Rapid Chess Championship 2024 – Deutsche Schnellschachmeisterschaft der Frauen – is going to take place 12-13 October, as part of the German Rapid Chess Festival. It will be hosted by Brackwed chess club and the games will take place at Ravensberger Spinnerei, Ravensberger Park 1, 33607 Bielefeld. The time control is 15 min + 10 sec and a total of nine rounds will be played.

The German Rapid Amateur Championship 2024 – Deutschen Schnellschach-Amateurmeisterschaft – is going to take place 12-13 October, as part of the German Rapid Chess Festival. It will be hosted by Brackwed chess club and the games will take place at Ravensberger Spinnerei, Ravensberger Park 1, 33607 Bielefeld. The time control is 15 min + 10 sec and a total of nine rounds will be played.

Registration continues, so far 249 players have signed up for the event.

LCZero, the neural network built on the foundation principle of AlphaZero, continues in the sole lead of TCEC Swiss 7. LCZero took the sole lead after 3 double rounds, and now after 8 double rounds continues to be first with 11.0/16.

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

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

Alpine SG Pipers is a chess team participating in the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2024. The icon player is Magnus Carlsen, and his teammates are superstar players Praggnanandhaa R and Richard Rapport, women superstar players Hou Yifan and Kateryna Lagno, and the prodigy of Alpine SG Pipers is Daniel Dardha.

India stole the show at the Chess Olympiad 2024 winning double gold and the Gaprindashvili Cup.

HT: SchachKatze

Final standings open: India gold, USA Silver, Uzbekistan bronze (complete standings)

Final standings women: India gold, Kazakhstan Silver, USA bronze at the Women Chess Olympiad 2024 (complete standings)