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World Rapid Team Chess Championship

London, England.
Rapid 11th - 13th June 2025
Blitz 14th - 15th June 2025
55 teams

Top 5 teams - ratings

WR Chess Team (2695) : 1st board: Nepo
Hexamind Chess Team (2636) : 1st board:Aronian
Kazchess - (2510) : 1st board: Rapport
Freedom (2605) : 1st board: Anand
Team MGD1 (2580) 1st board: Erigaisi

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Top 30 players - Ratings June 2025

Carlsen at the top with 2837 points , Nakamura 2804

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Norway Chess 2025

20- 27 May 2025
Malmö, Sweden
8 players
Round robin
Time control: 90 mn / 40 moves + 30 mn to the end + an increment of 30 seconds
per move, starting from move 1

Players - Ratings

Carlsen, Magnus NOR

Caruana, Fabiano USA

Nakamura, Hikaru USA

Gukesh, IND

Arjun Erigaisi, IND

Wei Yi CHN

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Champions Chess Tour 2025

2nd leg of the Champions Chess Tour
. 18 - 23 May, 2025 Time control: 10 mn

Grand Final

Players Total

Carlsen
2.5

Vachier-Lagrave
0.5

Semifinals

Players Total

Carlsen
3

Abdusattorov
1

Players Total

Nakamura
3

Nepo
2

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Tepe Sigeman & Co 2025

20- 27 May 2025
Malmö, Sweden
8 players
Round robin
Time control: 90 mn / 40 moves + 30 mn to the end + an increment of 30 seconds
per move, starting from move 1

Players - Ratings

Erwin l'Ami NED
Richard Rapport HUN
Javokhir Sindarov UZB
Ray Robson USA

Nils Grandelius SWE
Vasyl Ivanchuk UKR
Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus TUR
Tan Zhongyi CHN

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Players	Total
Carlsen	2.5
Vachier-Lagrave	0.5

Players	Total
Carlsen	3
Abdusattorov	1

Players	Total
Nakamura	3
Nepo	2

Asian Individual Men's Chess Championships 2025

7 - 15 May 2025
Final Standings - top 3

Rank	Players	Country	Points
1	Daneshvar, Bardiya	IRI	7
2	Nihal, Sarin	IND	7
3	Vokhidov, Shamsiddin	UZB	6.5

Superbet Chess Classic Romania - Grand chess Tour

7 - 16 May 2025
Bucharest, Romania
10 players
Round robin
90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes +
30-second increment starting from move one

Praggnanandhaa won Grand Chess Tour - Superbet Chess Classic Romania

Players - Ratings

Gukesh Dommaraju 2787
Fabiano Caruana 2776
Nodirbek Abdusattorov 2771
Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu 2758
Alireza Firouzja 2757

Wesley So 2751
Levon Aronian 2747
Jan-Krzysztof Duda 2739
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2723
Bogdan-Daniel Deac 2668

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FIDE Women's Grand Prix Austria

26 - 15 May 2025
Austria
10 players

Players - Ratings

Zhu Jiner
Tan Zhongyi
Anna Muzychuk
Nana Dzagnidze
Mariya Muzychuk
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Vaishali Rameshbabu
Lela Javakhishvili
Olga Badelka
Nurgyul Salimova

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Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland 2025 - Grand chess Tour

24 April - 1 May, 2025
Warsaw, Poland
Average rating : 2739

Rapid : Round robin
Blitz: Double Round robin

Time control: 25mn + 10s and 5mn + 2s
Rapid games : win 2 points
draw 1 point.
Blitz games : win 1 points
draw 0.5 point.

Fedoseev won Grand Chess Tour - Superbet Poland Rapid & Blitz

Players - Ratings

Praggnanandhaa, R IND 2758
Firouzja, Alireza FRA 2757
Aravindh, Chithambaram VR. IND 2749
Aronian, Levon USA 2747
Duda, Jan-Krzysztof POL 2739

Fedoseev, Vladimir SLO 2739
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2722
Topalov, Veselin BUL 2717
Deac, Bogdan-Daniel ROU 2668
Gavrilescu, David ROU 2554

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Grenke Freestyle Chess Open A

17 - 21 April 2025
Karlsruhe , Germany

238 players
Swiss system

Carlsen is the winner. 9 out of 9 games. 1 Carlsen NOR 9
2 Maghsoodloo IRI 7
3-4 Esipenko FID 7
3-4 Svane GER

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Women’s Grand Prix Pune, India

Koneru IND won Grand Prix Pune, India thanks to the better tie-break point.

13 - 24 April 2025
Pune, India
10 players
Round-robin

Zhu Jiner
Dronavalli Harika
Koneru Humpy
Kashlinskaya Alina
Vaishali Rameshbabu
Melia Salome
Munguntuul Batkhuyag
Salimova Nurgyul
Deshmukh Divya
Shuvalova Polina

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Women's World Chess Championship 2025

3 - 21 April 2025
First stage in Shanghai, the second stage in Chongqing
12 games .

Ju Wenjun

Tan Zhongyi

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam 2025 Paris

7 - 14 April 2025
Paris, France

Chess960 - freestyle chess tournament
Round-robin & knockout

Carlsen won Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Paris after beating Nakamura 1.5-0.5

Carlsen, Magnus
Abdusattorov, Nodirbek
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime
Nepomniachtchi, Ian
Nakamura, Hikaru
Erigaisi, Arjun

Praggnanandhaa R.
Caruana, Fabiano
Keymer, Vincent
Gukesh Dommaraju
Rapport, Richard
Vidit Gujrathi

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European Women's Chess Championship 2025

31 March - 11 April 2025
Rhodes, Greece
136 players
11 rounds, Swiss system
Average rating: 2154

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European Individual Chess Championship 2025

15 - 26 March 2025
Eforie Nord, Romania
376 players
40/90 min + 30 min. + 30 sec. for each move

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Nicosia FIDE Women's Grand Prix

15 - 24 March 2025
Nicosia , Cyprus
10 players

Players

Goryachkina Aleksandra
Dronavalli Harika
Dzagnidze, Nana
Muzychuk, Mariya
Muzychuk, Anna

Tsolakidou, Stavroula
Zhu Jiner
Divya Deshmukh
Paehtz, Elisabeth
Badelka , Olga

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Prague Chess Festival Masters March 2025

26 February - 7 March 2025
Prague, Czechia
Masters t. : 10 players
Round robin
Average rating: 2706

Aravindh is the winner.
Players

Aravindh Chithambaram
Praggnanandhaa
Vincent Keymer
Liem Le
Anish Giri
Wei Yi
Sam Shankland
David Navara
Thai Dai Van Nguyen
Ediz Gurel

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Champions Showdown

4 - 6 March 2025
Saint Louis USA
Round robin
Blitz, Rapid, Semi-classical

Caruana won Champions Showdown - The Kings
Players

Fabiano Caruana
Hikaru Nakamura
Levon Aronian
Wesley So
Leinier Dominguez Perez
Ray Robson

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Monaco Women's Grand Prix round 1

17 - 28 February 2025
Monaco
10 players

Goryachkina won Monaco Women's Grand Prix on tiebreaks

Harika Dronavalli
Elisabeth Paehtz
Batkhuyag Munguntuul
Tan Zhongyi
Humpy Koneru
Aleksandra Goryachkina
Bibisara Assaubayeva
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Sarasadat Khademalsharieh
Kateryna Lagno

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Chessable Masters

1st event of Champions Chess Tour 2025

Carlsen won Chessable Masters

Carlsen - Yu Yangyi : 2.5 - 0.5
Erigaisi - Wei Yi : 3 - 0
Nakamura - Nepo : 3 - 0
Caruana - Firouzja : 2 - 3

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Freestyle Chess Grand Slam 2025 Weissenhaus

7 - 14 February 2025
Weissenhaus, Germany

Masters & Challengers : 14 players each one
Round-robin & knockout
Feb 7 - 8 Round-robin Feb 9 - 14 Knockout
$750,000 prize fund

Carlsen, Magnus NOR
Gukesh Dommaraju IND
Fabiano Caruana USA
Nakamura, Hikaru USA
Firouzja, Alireza FRA

Nodirbek Abdusattorov UZB
Aronian, Levon USA
Vladimir Fedoseev SLO
Sindarov, Javokhir UZB
Keymer, Vincent GER

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87th Tata Steel Masters chess tournament 2025

Praggnanandhaa won Tata Steel Masters after beating Gukesh in play-off. 2 - 1

18 January - 2 February 2025
Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

Masters & Challengers : 14 players each one
Round robin

Average rating: 2712

Time control: 100'/40 moves + 50 mn for 20 moves and
15 mn the rest of the game + 30 sec from 1st move.

Fabiano Caruana USA
Arjun Erigaisi IND
Gukesh Dommaraju IND
Nodirbek Abdusattorov UZB
Wei Yi CHN
Harikrishna Pentala
Praggnanandhaa IND
Anish Giri NED

Vincent Keymer GER
Vladimir Fedoseev SLO
Jorden Van Foreest NED
Alexey Sarana SRB
Max Warmerdam NED
Leon Luke Mendonca NED

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European Women's Rapid & Blitz Ch.

Monte-Carlo , Monaco
Blitz : 10 January 2025
Rapid: 11 - 12 January 2024
Blitz : 132 players, 13 rounds
3 minutes + 2 second-increment
Rapid : 118 players, 11 Rounds
15 minutes + 3 seconds-increment

Ushenina and Maltsevskaya are the champions respectively in European Women's Rapid & Blitz Championship.

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