Russia is holding its national championships, October 1st to 12th. Many Western websites refuse to cover this at all. I wouldn’t go that far, but I do try to limit myself to reporting results and games. I only found out it had started after round 6. It's also shockingly weak compared to even a few years ago.
Finally Viswanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov meet in a 12 game match - Clutch Chess, the legends - held in Saint Louis over three days starting tonight. It’s quite possible this match wouldn’t have happened without the use of the Chess960 variant - Anand is surely much more theoretically knowledgeable than Kasparov these days - but still I would have much preferred standard chess. The mixture of rapid and blitz under a single scoring system is unusual, and the Clutch Chess format - where the value of wins increases from 1 to 2 to 3 points (with draws worth half that value) across the three-day event - is experimental. A 12-game match of regular rapid chess would have elevated the status of this immeasurably.