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The defending champion Leela Chess Zero is the sole leader of TCEC Swiss 7. Leela leads what is dubbed as the strongest chess event in history with 4,5/6, half of point ahead of nine competitors including rating leader Stockfish and the surprise of the season Ceres.

Gabriele Lombardo is the author of the chess engine Obsidian. It is one of the top engines in the world, currently competing for a medal position at the strongest ever computer chess event. This is impressive enough, but wait until you hear that Gabriele is 16 years old!!! This makes Gabriele the youngest author to participate in TCEC and “The Mozart of computer chess”

See Obsidian in action now live at https://tcec-chess.com/

The World Chess Championship 2024 will be a 14 games match between the reigning world champion Ding Liren and the challenger Gukesh D to determine the World Chess Champion. The match is scheduled to take place between November 23 and December 15, 2024, with Singapore hosting the top event of the year.

Fabiano Caruana was happy about the win of USA at the Chess Olympiad, but he was surprised at the initial question of the interview. “Wesley was the least one who was struggling. Aronian was dead lost. Of course he is a very good defender and pulled off a miracle.” See the events of round 1 here

Vasyl Ivanchuk is a true legend. He does not remember at how many Chess Olympiads he has been, but says he enjoys each of them because he likes chess. We all remember how Ivachuk said I am waiting for the opportunity to actively come back to chess.

Among the favorite Olympiads of Vasyl Ivanchuk is Calvia 2004.

Full interview with Vasyl Ivanchuk by Anna Burtasova.

One of the important decisions at the upcoming FIDE Congress during the Chess Olympiad 2024 is the resolution by the Kyrgyzstan Chess Federation to restore the full membership rights of the Russian Chess Federation. Several sources of Chessdom.com confirmed that Russia “most probably” has the needed votes for the resolution to pass.

Nakamura and Carlsen are playing a private match, according to Hikaru Nakamura himself.

Nakamura said, “Yes, it’s what you believe. Carlsen and I are playing a private classical match. If the chess community or some generous billionaire can come up with $1M US we will split the funds and release the PGNs. Any takers?”

The famous streamer Speed played a chess game with Manny Pacquiao and more than 200 000 people watched the game live on Youtube. In the recent Speed Chess Championship aka SCC, Carlsen and Firouzja final had 100k on Youtube

Grandmasters think a few moves ahead and GM Antoaneta Stefanova saw it coming. A few days ago Stefanova commented, “In Budapest we have accommodation problems, which I hope to be solved. The problems are for players from many countries. […] I hope those organizational problems do not spread to transfers to playing halls.” The accommodation issues and scattering of players through different hotels has created transportation chaos in Budapest.

One of the important decisions at the upcoming FIDE Congress during the Chess Olympiad 2024 is the resolution by the Kyrgyzstan Chess Federation to restore the full membership rights of the Russian Chess Federation. Several sources of Chessdom.com confirmed that Russia “most probably” has the needed votes for the resolution to pass.