The European Women's Blitz Championship finished in Monaco. 88 players participated in the event.

Having scored 10 points out of 13, the Russian Alexandra Kosteniuk won the title. Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria), Valentina Gunina (Russia), Marie Sebag (France), Natalia Zhukova (Ukraine), and Alina Kashlinskaya (Russia) are half a point behind. Thanks to the superior tiebreak, Stefanova took the second place, while Gunina won bronze.
The European Women's Rapid Championship starts on November 30

Results:
http://chess-results.com/tnr467803.aspx?lan=1&art=4

Legendary Maia Chiburdanidze (2497) comes back at the board seeded number 3 at the European Women's Blitz Championship that takes place in Monaco today. She has not played a rated game since summer 2012!

Good instincts, Marie Sebag. 😂

Russian team once again equalizes the score against China. The decisive round is ahead

https://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/russian_team_once_again_equalizes_the_score_against_china/

314 Girls Compete in NYS Girls Championship

https://new.uschess.org/news/314-girls-compete-nys-girls-championship/

Kramnik And AlphaZero: How To Rethink Chess‎

https://www.chess.com/article/view/no-castling-chess-kramnik-alphazero

Former World Champ Vladimir Kramnik is advocating for NO-CASTLING CHESS to bring creativity back into the game.

♖ Here is a no-castling game between two computers using the AI program AlphaZero.

Online registration for the King Salman World Rapid & Blitz Championships 2019 is open

https://www.fide.com/news/228

I might never have become a chess grandmaster if I’d stuck to women-only tournaments | Judit Polgár

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/30/chess-grandmaster-women-only-tournament-play-men?CMP=fb_cif

The European Women's Rapid Championship has begun in Monaco - one of the accompanying events is Garry Kasparov giving a simul!

Happy Birthday to Magnus Carlsen! What a year he has had: won 8 super tournaments so far, maintained a record-breaking undefeated streak, founded Offerspill as one of the largest chess clubs in the world and expanded his Play Magnus app business venture.

Happy 29th Birthday to World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen! 🎂

December FIDE Rating List is out!

Alexander Grischuk became a real action-maker in the top-10. The winner of Hamburg #GrandPrixFIDE picked up 13 rating points and returned into the top-5 for the first time since April 2015.

From the top players, Gawain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 was the one to gain the most rating points in November, +20.

He ran rampant at the European Team Championship and then scored 5/6 points at the European Club Cup.