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The Belt and Road Open 2025 (Bengbu) 2025 will take place August 13 – August 18 in Bengbu, China. This tournament is separated in 2 categories – Group A and Group. The Group B section is a 9 -round Swiss system tournament with time control 90 min + 30 sec /move. For more events from China, check out The Asian Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The Belt and Road Open 2025 (Bengbu) 2025 will take place August 13 – August 18 in Bengbu, China. This tournament is separated in 2 categories – Group A and Group. The Group A section is a 9 -round Swiss system tournament with time control 90 min + 30 sec /move. For more events from China, check out The Asian Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The Campeonato de España por equipos de club 2025 aka Spanish Club Chess Championship is taking place August 8 – August 14 in Linares, Spain. The tournament is separated in 2 categories – Division de Honor and Primera Division. Division de Honor section is a 8 team round-robin tournament with time control 90 min / 40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec /move.

The 24th European Youth Rapid & Blitz Championship 2025 was played August 05 – August 08 in Thessaloniki, Greece. The tournament was played in 12 categories – Open U18. Girls U18, Open U16, Girls U16, Open U14, Girls U14, Open U12, Girls U12, Open U10, Girls U10, Open U8 and Girls U8.

Akiba Rubinstein Chess Festival 2025 is going to take place August 15 – August 24 in Polanica-Zdroj, Poland. Part of the festival is the Akiba Rubinstein Memorial Grandmaster Tournament, which features 10 players in a RR event. Among the participants are Aravindh Chithambaram, Igor Kovalenko, Michael Adams, Nodirbek Yakubboev, Matthias Blübaum, Radosław Wojtaszek, David Navara, Mateusz Bartel, Paweł Teclaf, Jan Klimkowski.

Lu Miaoyi (Chinese: 鹿妙夷; born February 2010) is a Chinese chess prodigy and International Master (IM) with a peak FIDE rating of 2449. She is the world’s No. 2 junior female player, trailing only Divya Deshmukh, and holds the title of Chinese women’s national champion. At the age of 15, Lu is the fourth-youngest female in chess history to achieve the International Master title.

The Campeonato de España por equipos de club 2025 aka Spanish Club Chess Championship is taking place August 8 – August 14 in Linares, Spain. The tournament is separated in 2 categories – Division de Honor and Primera Division. Division de Honor section is a 8 team round-robin tournament with time control 90 min / 40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec /move.

o3 (OpenAI) is the winner of Kaggle Game Arena AI Exhibition Chess after winning the final with Grok with a perfect 4-0. o3 (OpenAI) stayed perfect during the whole tournament, after winning 4-0 at the quarterfinals vs Kimi k2 (Moonshot AI) and 4-0 vs o4-mini (OpenAI) at the semifinal.

Replay the live games with Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen

Hikaru Nakamura has been providing fantastic commentary during the quarterfinals and the semifinals of the Kaggle Game Arena AI exhibition chess matches. Today, he will comment the final too, and you can watch Nakamura’s live stream on Chessdom

Today Grok will meet o3 OpenAI in the final of the Kaggle Game Arena AI Exhibition. The Grok xAI model received deserved praise after defeating Gemini 2.5 Pro at the semifinal. GothamChess published a video titled “Grok solved chess. It is over” Yet, any chess expert will tell you it is far from over.