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Gukesh and Ding Liren are the two contenders for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2024. The event will take place in Singapore and will be a 14 games match. Until Sinquefield Cup, Ding and Gukesh had two games, both won by Ding Liren. Their third encounter was a draw, in round 1 of the Sinquefield Cup

Hans Niemann has challenged three top players in an event branded as Hans Niemann vs the World series. After defeating Anish Giri in Utrecht, and later Nikita Vitiugov in London, now Niemann faces Etienne Bacrot in Paris.

The World Youth Chess Championship 2024 is scheduled to take place in Floripa, Brazil, 28 October – 10 November. The event will be for U14, U16, and U18 categories, boys and girls respectively.

Keith Gregory, ECF Awards Committee Chair, has announced the 2024 awards of the English Chess Federation. “This year saw many strong entries and the Awards Committee took on a tough task in reviewing and voting on them all,” says Gregory and continues, “I was delighted to find that clear winners emerged across all the categories, and I did not have to use my casting vote.”

ECF Awards 2024

President’s Award for Services to Chess – John F Wheeler; Malcolm Pein

Four players are sharing the lead at the FIDE Women Chess Grand Prix before the rest day. Mariya Muzychuk, Nana Dzagnidze, Bibisara Assaubayeva, and Stavroula Tsolakidou lead with 3,0/5 each. Games from FIDE Tbilisi Women Grand Prix 2024 will resume on Tuesday and will be live on Chessdom.

One of the largest open events of this summer is going to take place in Barcelona. It will be the XXV Open Internacional de Sants – Ciutat de Barcelona and will feature 625 players. The tournament is not only massive, but also boasts strong participation, with the A group having 16 GMs and 140 titled players, coming from 52 countries!

Chessdom will cover the event with live games and reports.

Yes, that is correct, draws were not a valid chess result in tournament play in the 1800s. If a game finished a draw, it had to be repeated. The first event that actually applied the draw rule to the crosstable was Dundee in 1867.

The Dundee tournament is considered the fourth ever international tournament of modern times. The first was in Madrid (1575), Paris (1821), and London (1862). Dundee was won by Neumann ahead of Steinz, and the difference between them was exactly 1/2 points, the draw that counted.

Ice4 is the winner of TCEC 4k IV event. The engine by Thomas Petzke convincingly won the regular season of the tournament of the small giants scoring 43,5/48 and not losing a single game in the process. With this, it added extra ELO and is currently rated 3041

TCEC 4k IV standings

1. Ice4 43,5/48
2. 4ku 40,0
3. Stro4k 36,0
4. Molly 20,5
5. M4sseur 19,5
6. Moonfish 5,0
7. Pygone 3,5

Gukesh and Ding Liren are the two contenders for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2024. The event will take place in Singapore and will be a 14 games match.

In this year’s edition of the Sinquefield Cup, Gukesh and Ding Liren will treat us with a preview of the upcoming World Chess Championship 2024. Follow the game live here at Chessdom with commentary by the STL Chess Club.

WGP Series consists of six Women’s Grand Prix tournaments held over two years 2024-2025. A total of twenty players compete in the WGP series, as each Women Grand Prix event will have ten participants. Full information / All games live

This is the game Sarasadat Khademalsharieh – Lela Javakhishvili from round 5 of the Tbilisi Grand Prix

Khademalsharieh – Javakhishvili, Tbilisi Grand Prix 2024