With two rounds still to go, on a combative and draw-less day in Saint Louis, the Kings scored 3-2 both in the chess960 match and the rapid match, to secure the overall match victory. With only 10 possible points left in the kitty, today’s wins brought the margin between the two groups to a decisive 12 points.

The Board of RCF Trainers' Council recommended Evgeny Bareev to be the new/old head coach of the team for the upcoming European Team Chess Championships in Porto Carras, Greece. The final decision will be with the Supervisory Board of the RCF.

After bringing Sergei Movsesian back from Slovakia, last week the Armenian Chess Federation has completed the transfer of WGM Maria Kursova from the Russian Chess Federation.

Captains of the Montenegro national teams have chosen the players which will represent the country at the upcoming European Team Chess Championship in Porto Carras, Greece.

The Stockholms Chess Federation welcomes all chess players to the 41st Rilton Cup, which will be held from 27th December 2011 to 5th January 2012.

The 4th Mayor Cup International Chess Tournament 2011, organized by Venus Chess Academy and hosted by Goregaon Sports Club and Co- Sponsored by LIC, saw a good response of 280 players taking part in the tournament, out of which 15 are GMs, 30 IMs and 4 WGMs.

The President of the Icelandic Chess Federation, Gunnar Björnsson, has kindly responded to our query about the Iceland team for the upcoming European Team Chess Championship in Porto Carras, Greece.

The final round matches of the World Chess Cup started on September 16th in Khanty-Mansiysk. Russian Grandmasters Peter Svidler and Alexander Grischuk compete for the World Cup victory and the main prize, and Ukrainians Vassily Ivanchuk and Ruslan Ponomariov fight for the third place and the last ticket to the Candidates Tournament.

Riga Chess Federation, Alexei Shirov and Riga Armenian Society are organizing Vladimir Bagirov Memorial which will take place on 20th September from 17:30 in Riga, Latvia.

The Kings vs. Queens match came to an end with another exciting day of fighting chess. The early round saw the Kings dominate once more with a comfy 3.5-1.5 win, but the Queens got them back with a sweet, high-note finish of 3-2 in the rapid.

In conjunction with this year's US Open in Orlando, the United States Chess Federation elected the officers for the USCF Executive Board for the 2011 to 2013 terms.

Aravindh Chithambaram of Tamil Nadu, the country's highest U12 rated player who became the youngest to win the National Junior Championship that concluded at Goa on Sep 14th upsets the top Indian GM Deep Sengupta...

Open: GM Michael Adams, GM Nigel Short, GM David Howell, GM Gawain Jones, GM Nick Pert. Captain: to be confirmed.

After two playing days Svidler is ahead of Grischuk with the score 1,5-0,5, and Ivanchuk is leading with the same score in the match against Ponomariov.

Six players are leading the tally with 4 points each viz GM Enamul Hossian of Bangladesh along with five Indian International Masters.