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• Ukraine and Poland grab gold at European Team Championships

  The 2025 European Team Chess Championship concluded in Batumi with Ukraine and Poland emerging as the continental champions in the open and women's sections respectively. Both teams entered the final round in control of their own destinies and confirmed their titles with victories on the last day of play. The tournament featured 40 teams in the open section and 36 in the women's. | Photos: European Chess Union

• US Chess Championships - Live!

  The 2025 US Chess Championships are taking place on 12-24 October at the Saint Louis Chess Club. Each tournament is a 12-player single round-robin with a classical time control. Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So and Hans Niemann are the highest-rated players in the open, while Carissa Yip, Alice Lee and Tatev Abrahamyan head the women's field. | Follow the action live starting at 19.00 CEST (13.00 ET, 22.30 IST)

• "In chess, AI fails due to its hallucinations" – An interview with Matthias Wüllenweber

  ChessBase co-founder Matthias Wüllenweber talks in an interview about 40 years of ChessBase, 35 years of Fritz and much more. The interview was first published in the October issue of Schach-Magazin 64 and appears here with the kind permission of Otto Borik, editor-in-chief of the chess magazine. | Photos: ChessBase / Nils Rohde / Archive Otto Borik