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• World Women's Team Championship - Live!

  The World Women's Team Championship is taking place in Linares, Spain, from 18 to 23 November. The event includes 12 national teams, including China, India, the United States and the host nation Spain. With top players such as Hou Yifan, Carissa Yip and Sarasadat Khademalsharieh competing, the championship features a strong field in a city long associated with elite chess. | Follow the games live starting at 13.30 CET (8.30 ET, 18.00 IST)

• World Women's Team Championship: Hou Yifan shines

  The second day of the 2025 FIDE Women’s World Team Championship in Linares saw high-quality chess and dramatic moments. While Team FIDE extended its lead in Pool A, Hou Yifan produced a standout performance in Pool B with a precise win in her tournament debut. The battle for the remaining knockout spots is heating up – in both groups, tense final rounds lie ahead. | Photos: FIDE/Raul Martinez, Pavel Dvorkovich

• Britain’s most prestigious chess event

  Britain’s most prestigious chess tournament, the XTX Markets London Chess Classic, is back this month with a world-class field and even more at stake at Arsenal FC’s Emirates Stadium. he 2025 edition, the 15th, features a stacked line-up of super grandmasters battling for a total £50,000 prize fund between November 26 and December 5. What makes it vitally important, however, is that the result of this tournament could determine who is the next world champion.