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Levan Pantsulaia is the winner of KCA’s International Chess Festival God’s Own Country’s 1st GM International Category-A. This is yet another tournament win for Levan Pantsulaia after he won earlier this year the Bengaluru Grandmasters Open Chess Tournament.

Maraba Chess Open 2025 takes place 19-22 June in Maraba, Brazil. It is a 7 rounds Swiss open tournament with classical time control, featuring GM Neuris Delgado Ramirez, GM Everaldo Matsuura, FM Luigy Lira De Siqueira, FM Juliana Sayumi Terao, NM Vitor Luis De Jesus Silverio, Jose Ferreira Azevedo Junior, etc.

The will also have a blitz section, taking place June 19.

Maraba Chess Open participants (as of May 2025)

Candela Be Francisco Guecamburu claimed the title of American Women Continental Chess Champion 2025. She collected 7,5/9 and edged on tiebreak Anahi Ortiz Verdezoto, who got the silver medal. Third place is for Javiera Belen Gomez Barrera. Replay the games here

The winner of the championship qualifies for the FIDE Women World Cup and wins the WGM title. The second and third are awarded WIM titles.

International Master Thanh Tu Tran is Japanese Chess Champion 2025. Tran won the 2025 edition of the championship with 8,0/9, which is 1,5 points ahead of his opponents. This is his fourth Japanese Chess Championship victory after 2016, 2018, and 2020. Scroll down for the full standings and replay the games here

The Polish Women Chess Championship 2025 is taking place 5-15 May in Krakow, Poland. It is a 10 player round robin, featuring GM Monika Soćko, IM Karina Cyfka, IM Klaudia Kulon, IM Oliwia Kiołbasa, IM Aleksandra Malcewska, IM Alina Kaszlińska, WGM Michalina Rudzińska, WIM Anna Kubicka, WFM Katarzyna Dwilewicz, WFM Wiktoria Śmietańska. Follow the open section here

The Polish Chess Championship 2025 is taking place 5-15 May in Krakow, Poland. It is a 10 player round robin, featuring GM Paweł Teclaf, GM Kacper Piorun, GM Radosław Wojtaszek, GM Bartłomiej Heberla, GM Wojciech Moranda, GM Mateusz Bartel, GM Jacek Tomczak, FM Filip Łuczak, GM Szymon Gumularz, GM Jakub Kosakowski.

Grand Chess Tour Bucharest is the third event of the tour. The event is featuring Fabiano Caruana, Gukesh Dommaraju, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Alireza Firouzja, Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Bogdan-Daniel Deac

See detailed information / Replay Grand Chess Tour Warsaw

The Asian Individual Chess Championship 2025 is taking place 7-15 May in Al Ain, UAE. The event features Nihal Sarin, M. Amin Tabatabaei, Nodirbek Yakubboev, Murali Karthikeyan, Shamsiddin Vokhidov, Ngoc Truong Son Nguyen, A.R. Saleh Salem, Pouya Idani, Leon Luke Mendonca, Abhimanyu Puranik, Xiangyu Xu, Bardiya Daneshvar, V Pranav, Jingyao Tin, S L Narayanan, etc. Scroll down for the full list. The top 10 in the Open section and the top 2 in the Women’s section will qualify for their respective FIDE World Cups.

The Algerian Individual Chess Championships took place 24-28 April in Alger. Ala Eddine Boulrens is the sole winner of the open section with 8,0/9, after finishing at second place in last year’s event. WIM Lina Nassr won the women section with a perfect 9,0/9

Just last weekend Real Madrid’s top offensive midfielder Arda Guler achieved 100% pass accuracy vs Celta. Guler shone bright across the 90 minutes on Sunday, opening the scoring courtesy of a brilliant left-footed strike, before laying on an equally brilliant assist for Kylian Mbappe.

Thanks to Sabopasha, now we know the secret of Guler! He masters his strategy on the field with chess!