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Las Vegas Freestyle Chess 2025 is going to take place 15-19 July, 2025. With his second position at Grenke Freestyle (see the final standings here), Parham Maghsoodloo gets the final ticket to Las Vegas 2025. That is yet another fantastic news for Parham Maghsoodloo this month of April, where he won Reykjavik Chess 2025 and finished second in Karlsruhe.

Magnus Carlsen is the winner of Grenke Freestyle Chess 2025. The five-time classical World Champion is proving to be unstoppable at Freestyle (aka Chess960 or Fischer Random) too. After Carlsen’s Freestyle victory in Paris, now he managed to secure the Grenke Freestyle Chess 2025 title with a round to spare.

Magnus Carlsen is the winner of Grenke Freestyle Chess 2025. The five-time classical World Champion is proving to be unstoppable at Freestyle (aka Chess960 or Fischer Random) too. After Carlsen’s Freestyle victory in Paris, now he managed to secure the Grenke Freestyle Chess 2025 title with a round to spare.

The Menorca Chess Open 2025 takes place 22-27 April in Ciutadella de Menorca, at the MarSenses Paradise Club Hotels and at the Grupotel Macarella Suites & Spa on the beautiful island of Menorca. The tournament features 300+ players, many of them coming directly from Grenke. Top players include Nihal Sarin, Sam Shankland, Volodar Murzin, Murali Karthikeyan, Vasyl Ivanchuk, etc See all tournament details here

Magnus Carlsen is the winner of Grenke Freestyle Chess 2025. The five-time classical World Champion is proving to be unstoppable at Freestyle (aka Chess960 or Fischer Random) too. After Carlsen’s Freestyle victory in Paris, now he managed to secure the Grenke Freestyle Chess 2025 title with a round to spare. (replay Carlsen’s games here)

Sohum Lohia achieved his final IM norm at the Southend Easter Chess Festival. Sohum Lohia achieved 5,5/9 which was enough for him to complete the requirements for International Master. Congratulations!

More about the Southend Easter Chess Festival and the final norm of Sohum Lohia in the Chessdom Newsletter, that begins this week. Signup for FREE to get it daily into your mailbox

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Major success for Indian players at O2C Doebrl Chess 2025 – GM Guha Mitrabha wins the gold medal of the event, ahead of his compatriot GM Sayantan Das who takes silver. The bronze medal is for local hero GM Zong-Yuan Zhao

Magnus Carlsen continues to showcase his natural talent and chess skills at the Grenke Freestyle Chess 2025 tournament. Yesterday he was with perfect 5,0/7 and today he continued his rampage by winning against Awonder Liang in round 6 and against Parham Maghsoodloo in round 7. His perfect score performance rating for 7/7 is 3094 CPR (read more about CPR here)

For a million dreams! Record broken! Tunde Onakoya and Shawn Martinez have played 62 hours of chess non-stop, a record marathon!

And they are going for the 70 hours mark – follow their record achievement with live video feed here

See the moment when the 61+ mark was crossed and the record was officially broken. For a million dreams – follow the accounts of Tunde Onakoya and The Gift of Chess to support them

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