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The 19th Serbian Individual Chess Championship was officially opened today in the Conference Hall of the “Ana Luks” Hotel in Pirot. The tournament’s chief arbiter, IM Igor Lukić, introduced the participants, and then, by symbolically making the first move, Jorgić and Vasić marked the beginning of the tournament, which features 10 competitors who will compete for the title of Serbian chess champion over the next 9 days.

Sam Shankland is the winner of the 2025 edition of the American Continental Chess Championship. Shankland collected 8,5/11, the same points as eight other players, but won the title on a better tiebreak. The silver medal is for Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara, the bronze is for Alexandr Fier. Replay the games here

Yesterday Parham Maghsoodloo won Grand Prix PlusCity blitz with 2900+ performance. Today was the rapid section of the event and Alexey Sarana won clear first with 8,0/9. See the calendar of Alexey Sarana here. Baadur Jobava won yet another medal – this time it was silver – while the bronze is for Szymon Gumularz.

Top woman is Alexandra Kosteniuk, ahead of Marina Brunello and Stavroula Tsolakidou.

On the occasion of the International Children’s Day June 1st, Ding Liren, China’s first individual World Chess Champion, made a surprise appearance at the chess training course of “Hangzhou Branch of China Qi-Yuan” and sent holiday blessings and gifts to all the young chess children of the branch, encouraging them to keep their love and bravely pursue their dreams.

The Ukrainian FM Roman Dehtiarov is the winner of the first edition of the Sofia Spring Chess Tournament. FM Roman Dehtiarov finished sole first with 7,0/9, half a point ahead of a large group of players. Second on tiebreak is the Greek FM Christos Krallis, while third is local Grandmaster Radoslav Dimitrov.

Top woman of the competition is the Canadian WGM Maili-Jade Ouellet.

The Turkish Junior Chess Championship was held 17-23 May 2025 in Samsun İlkadım Chess Hall. FM Uygar Duruçay won the gold medal, the second place is for Buğra Hamza Tutmaz and third is Yüşahan Nuhoğlu. In the girls category Nur Sima Tanrıver is first, ahead of Naz Mercan Fidan and Ayşe Naz Açıkgöz finished third. Scroll down for the full standings and see the photos of the winners below by Fatma Koç from the Turkish Chess Federation.

Magnus Carlsen is the leader of Norway Chess 2025 after R4. Carlsen has collected 8,0 points and is a point ahead of Fabiano Caruana. Scroll down for the full standings and statistical performance of the players.

More: Norway Chess 2025 schedule and information / Norway Chess 2025 live / Norway Chess 2025 Women live

Computer chess is undergoing an explosive advancement. Just recently Stockfish crossed the 3700 ELO mark, its main competitor Leela Chess Zero is on the brink of doing so, while even 4KiB (4096 bytes) size engines are playing with strength 3100+ (see it to believe it)

The European School Chess Championship 2025 takes place May 30 – June 7 in Mamaia, Romania.

The event is played in 6 age categories: U7, U9, U11, U13, U15 and U17, open and girls sections separately. Each tournament will be played in 9 rounds, with the time control of 90 minutes with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one.

Parham Maghsoodloo is the winner Grand Prix PlusCity 2025, one of the top rapid and blitz events in The Chess Calendar of 2025. In the event, that took place in Austria this May 29th, Maghsoodloo scored 12,0/13, finishing 1,5 points ahead of Baadur Jobava and Tobias Koelle. Top seeded Alexey Sarana is fifth 10,0/13, while second top seed Alexander Grischuk collected a total of 9,5/13.