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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 Nana Dzagnidze – Lela Javakhishvili from round 1 of the Tbilisi Grand Prix

Dzagnidze – Javakhisgvili, Tbilisi Grand Prix 2024

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 Anna Muzychuk – Mariya Muzychuk from round 1 of the Tbilisi Grand Prix

Anna Muzychuk – Mariya Muzychuk, Tbilisi Grand Prix 2024

The Saint Louis Chess Club will host the 2024 Sinquefield Cup with a $350,000 total prize fund. It is the strongest tournament on American soil and will be the final opportunity for competitors to earn points in the 2024 Grand Chess Tour and at the end of the tournament, a new tour champion will be crowned. Sinquefield Cup 2024 will be daily live on Chessdom, with coverage of all games, social media reactions, commentary, live video and more.

The Saint Louis Chess Club will host the 2024 Sinquefield Cup with a $350,000 total prize fund. It is the strongest tournament on American soil and will be the final opportunity for competitors to earn points in the 2024 Grand Chess Tour and at the end of the tournament, a new tour champion will be crowned.

Sinquefield Cup 2024 is going to take place 19-27 August and will be daily live on Chessdom, with coverage of all games, social media reactions, commentary, live video and more.

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.

The Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) is the place to see the giants of modern chess – Stockfish, Leela, Berserk, KomodoDragon, Ethereal, Rubichess, etc. It is the battleground for the strongest to prove their everlasting advance to perfection.

From time to time TCEC treats us with side events. Currently ongoing is one of the most amazing such bonuses – the TCEC 4k competition. The key: all participating engines are limited to to a maximum of 4KiB (4096 bytes)

The 22nd edition of the European Union Youth Chess Championship U8-U14 took place from 4th-13th August 2024 in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic. The event was organized by the Czech Chess Federation under the auspices of the European Chess Union. The gold medal winners are:

Stanley Badacsonyi can now claim the FM title after passing 2300 FIDE live rating. At only 14 years and 11 months old Badacsonyi is a FIDE Master, after a solid performance at the ongoing III Kingston Invitational. So far the young talent is at 5,5/7 at the 9 rounds Swiss event.

The 30th edition of the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival is going to take place 15-24 August in Abu Dhabi. The masters tournament boasts a strong field, including Amin Tabatabaei, Chithambaram Aravindh, Alexandr Predke, Javokhir Sindarov, David Anton, Bassem Amin, Nodirbek Yakubboev, Raunak Sadhwani, Saleh Salem, S L Narayanan, Abhimanyu Puranik, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Shamsiddin Vokhidov, Volodar Murzin, Leon Luke Mendonca, Nikolas Theodorou, Bardiya Daneshvar, Mukhiddin Madaminov, etc. for a total of 217 participants.

The Hans Niemann – Anish Giri match is part of the Hans Niemann vs the World series. It is Rapid is a 6-round match between GMs Hans Moke Niemann and Anish Giri, held on the 11th of August in Utrecht, Netherlands.

The next match of the series is Hans Niemann – Nikita Vitiugov