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Global Chess League

6 Teams - Double Round Robin tournament with Unique Scoring System in Mumbai between
13 - 24 December 2025 .

TEAMS

Alpine SG Pippers : Fabiano Caruana - Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu - Anish Giri
Hou Yifan - Nino Batsiashvili - Leon Luke Mendonca

Fyers American Gambits : Hikaru Nakamura - Richard Rapport - Vladislav Artemiev
Bibisara Assaubayeva- Teodora Injac - Volodar Murzin

Ganges Grandmasters : Viswanathan Anand - Vincent Keymer - Javokhir Sindarov
Stavroula Tsolakidou- Polina Shuvalova - Raunak Sadhwani

upGrad Mumba Masters : Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - Wesley So - Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Koneru Humpy - Harika Dronavalli- Bardiya Daneshvar

PBG Alaskan Knights : Gukesh Dommaraju - Arjun Erigaisi - Leinier Dominguez
Sara Khadem - Kateryna Lagno - Daniel Dardha

Triveni Continental Kings : Alireza Firouzja - Wei Yi - Vidit Gujrathi
Alexandra Kosteniuk - Zhu Jiner - Marc'Andria Maurizzi

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Turkish Chess Champ.

December 4-13. Gaziantep, Türkiye

Isik Can is the champion after beating Gokerkan: 2-0

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Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour South Africa

8 - 11 December 2025
Grootbos Private Nature Reserve, South Africa

Last event of Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour. Chess960 - freestyle chess tournament

Round-robin & knockout

Carlsen won Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour overall.

Aronian won Freestyle Chess Grand Slam South Africa.

Carlsen - Aronian 0.5 - 1.5

Semifinals

Carlsen - Sindarov: 2.5 - 1.5
Keymer - Aronian: 1 - 3

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London Chess Classic

26 November - 5 December 2025
London UK
10 players
90 minutes + 30 seconds per move

Players

Firouzja, Alireza 2762
Abdusattorov, Nodirbek 2750
Vitiugov, Nikita 2657
Eljanov, Pavel 2656
Theodorou, Nikolas 2656

Maroroa Jones, Gawain 2655
Shankland, Sam 2649
Mishra, Abhimanyu 2642
Adams, Michael 2635
Mcshane, Luke J 2615

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Clash of Generations II

3 - 8 December 2025
Monaco
Erdoðmuþ TUR 2658 vs Vachier-Lagrave FRA 2734
6 matches
Time control: 90 min/40 moves, then 30 min, with
a 30-second increment

Games
1- Erdogmus - Vachier-Lagrave 0.5 - 0.5

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Top 30 players - Ratings December 2025

Carlsen at the top with 2840 points , Nakamura 2810 . Caruana is 3rd now with 2795 points.

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World Cup 2025

November 1 - 26, 2025
Goa India
206 players
Knock-Out system tournament
8 rounds

Sindarov is World Cup 2025 Winner

Final

Sindarov Javokhir UZB - Wei Yi CHN : 2.5 - 1.5

Semifinals

Wei Yi CHN - Esipenko FID : 2.5 - 1.5

Sindarov UZB - Yakubboev UZB : 2.5 - 1.5

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World Women's Team Championship

18 - 23 November 2025
Linares, Spain
2 Pools . 6-team round-robin for each pool.

Countries

China
FIDE TEAM
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Ukraine
Spain

India
France
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
USA
Peru

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U.S. Chess Championships 2025

12 - 24 October 2025
Saint Louis , USA
12 players
Round Robin

Players

Caruana, Fabiano
Aronian, Levon
So Wesley
Shankland Sam
Oparin, Grigoriy
Sevian, Samuel

Liang, Awonder
Niemann, Hans Moke
Mishra, Abhimanyu
Robson, Ray
Swiercz, Dariusz
Woodward, Andy

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European Club Cup 2025

19 - 25 October 2025 Rhodes , Greece 7 rounds Open: 102 teams; Women: 20 teams

Top 10 teame by average rating

BayeganPendik chess sports 2711
Alkaloid 2701
Novy Bor 2683
SuperChess 2678
Tuxera Aquaprofit Nagykanizsai Sakk Klub 2638

Rishon Le Zion #1 2557
Kfar Saba 2509
Turkish Airlines sports club 2489
Beer Sheva 2479
SV Werder Bremen 2437

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European Team Chess Champ2025

5 - 14 October 2025
Batumi, Georgia
Swiss system, 9 rounds
Open 40 teams
Women: 36 teams

Ukraine and Poland won European Team Chess Championship
in Open and Women's category respectively Top 5 Teams

Germany 2681
Netherlands 2675
Hungary 2666
Azerbaijan 2660
England 2639

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Grand Chess Tour Finals 2025

26 September - October 2025

Sao Paulo , Brazil

The top four regular-season finishers of the 2025 Grand Chess Tour
will compete in the event.
Single-elimination knockout bracket

Open

1- Caruana USA

2- Praggnanandhaa IND
3- Vachier-Lagrave FRA
4- Aronian USA

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FIDE Grand Swiss

2 - 16 September 2025

Samarkand, Uzbekistan,

116 players in the Grand Swiss

56 players in the Women’s Grand Swiss.

Top 8 players according to the Ratings

Anish Giri and Vaishali Rameshbabu won FIDE Grand Swiss Open and
FIDE Grand Swiss Women respectively.

Open

1- Giri, Anish NED 8

2- Bluebaum GER 7.5

3- Firouzja Alireza FRA 7.5

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Sinquefield Cup

18 - 28 August 2025
St Louis , USA
10 players
Wesley So is the winner.

Tie-break games

Wesley So - Praggnanandhaa R : 1 - 0

Fabiano Caruana - Wesley So : 0.5 - 0.5

Praggnanandhaa R - Fabiano Caruana: 1 - 0

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Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz 2025

11 - 15 August 2025
Saint Louis, USA
10 players

Levon Aronian USA
Fabiano Caruana USA
Gukesh Dommaraju IND
Wesley So USA
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA
Leinier Dominguez Perez USA
Grigoriy Oparin USA
Liem Le VIE
Nodirbek Abdusattorov UZB
Sam Shankland USA

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Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters

5 - 15 August 2025
Chennai, India
8 players
90 minutes + 30 seconds per move

Erigaisi Arjun IND

Giri Anish NED

Murali Karthikeyan IND

Keymer Vincent GER

Vidit Gujrathi IND

Van Foreest Jorden NED

Liang Awonder CHN

Sarin Nihal IND

Robson Ray USA

Pranav V. IND

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Isbank Turkish Super League

4 - 16 August 2025
Ankara
16 teams
Round robin

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Esports World Cup

24 July - 1 August 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Time control: 10 mn + 0 ; Prize: $1,550,000

Each group plays a double-elimination-style bracket
The top two players from each group advance to the Playoffs

Carlsen is the winner after beating Firouzja.

Carlsen - Firouzja : 3 - 1 ; 2 - 2

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Women's World Cup 2025

5 - 30 July 2025
Batumi, Georgia

107 players
Single-elimination knockout tournament

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Biel Grandmasters Triathlon

13 - 24 July 2025
Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
6 players
Chess triathlon :
classical and rapid round-robin and
Blitz double round-robin.
Then Play-off : classical round-robin

Players

Aravindh Chithambaram IND
Vladimir Fedoseev SLO
Frederik Svane GER

Volodar Murzin FID
Radoslaw Wojtaszek POL
Saleh Salem UAE

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Las Vegas Freestyle Chess Grand Slam

Aronian is the winner. 16 - 20 July 2025
Las Vegas, USA

Chess960 - freestyle chess tournament
Round-robin & knockout

Knockout Stage:
Each match consists of two classical games
Time control: 10+10 ; Quarterfinals: 30+30

Carlsen, Caruana, Pragg,Nakamura Abdusattorov , So, Vidit, Aronian...

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Superbet Croatia Rapid & Blitz 2025

2 - 6 July 2025
Zagreb, Croatia
10 players
Single rapid round-robinand
Blitz double round-robin.

Time control : 25 + 10 rapid ; 5 + 2 blitz
Rapid games : 2 points for a win and
1 for a draw.
Blitz games : 1 point for a win and
0.5 for a draw.

Players - ratings - Rapid - Blitz

Magnus Carlsen USA 2819 2883

Gukesh D IND 2654 2615

Fabiano Caruana USA 2756 2782

Nodirbek Abdosattorov UZB 2740 2723

Praggnanandhaa R. IND 2688 2734

Firouzja, Alireza FRA 2767 2814

So, Wesley USA 2709 2786

Giri, Anish NED 2687 2690

Jan-Krzysztof Duda POL 2699 2770

Saric Ivan CRO 2589 2593

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UzChess Cup

19 - 27 July 2025 in Stavenger
Tashkent, Uzbekistan

10 players.

Abdusattorov, Nodirbek UZB
Erigaisi, Arjun IND
Sindarov, Javokhir UZB
Praggnanandhaa, R IND
Maghsoodloo, Parham IRI

Yakubboev, Nodirbek UZB
Aravindh, Chithambaram VR. IND
Nepomniachtchi, Ian FID
Rapport, Richard HUN
Vokhidov, Shamsiddin UZB

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World Rapid and Blitz Team Chess Championship

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

WR Chess Team ( Nakamura, Firouzja, So, MVL , Hou Yifan, Rosenstaein, Duda, Koteniuk, Ananyev) and Team MGD1 ( Erigaisi , Harikrishna, , Anton Guijarro, Pranav, Tsolakidou , Atharvaa , Mendonca, Narayanan, Raghavan ) won World Blitz and World Rapid Team Chess Championship respectively.

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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

Continue to read for the games , results and standingsEuropean Women's Chess Championship
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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