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Big Rook Chess Festival 2025 is taking place 7-12 May in Bangkok, Thailand. The main open is a 9 rounds classical Swiss with GM Darwin Laylo as top seeded.

The Big Rook Chess Festival 2025 contains also a rapid event on May 11, a blitz event on May 10, and multiple youth events.

Big Rook Chess Festival 2025 participants

The National Championship of Morocco in rapid and blitz chess will take place in Marrakech. The rapid section will be played May 10, while the blitz will happen on May 11. All news about Morocco here

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Legendary American Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky, “Yermo”, remains hospitalized in Tekirdag, Turkey after undergoing a four-way heart bypass. A second emergency surgery was performed five days later for sternal wound infection and respiratory failure. Compounding his problems, sternal fractures were found during the second surgery. Yermo is being crushed by medical bills which his Medicare is not covering as there is no reciprocal agreement with Turkey.

Visit the GoFundMe campaign for Uncle Yermo

Following the resounding success of its inaugural edition in Kazakhstan, the FIDE World Schools Team Championship is back — and it’s set to be bigger and more global than ever before!

The tournament will be played over 8 rounds, in a Swiss format, with each team consisting of four main players, mixed age, one reserve and one non-playing captain. Time control is 45 minutes + 10 seconds per move, with two games per day across four action-packed days.

Levy Rozman aka GothamChess is going on a European Chess Tour. It takes place May 8 – 17 in Brussels, London, Vienna, Berlin, Munich and Warsaw. Rozman, with nearly 6 million YouTube subscribers (which have generated more than 3 billion views) will bring his unique teaching style to the live stage on a multi-city European tour.

The Czech Amateur Championship is taking place 6-11 May in Hluk, Czech Republic. A total of 250 players compete in this year’s event which is a 9 rounds Swiss open for amateurs under 2300 elo. Scroll down for the full list.

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The FIDE Women’s Grand Prix heads to its final stop in Grosslobming, Austria. The final leg of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix will take place 5th May-16th May. The participants in Austria are Lela Javakhishvili, Nana Dzagnidze, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Nurgyul Salimova, Mariya Muzychuk, Anna Muzychuk, Zhu Jiner, Tan Zhongyi, Olga Badelka, Alexandra Kosteniuk.

The 2025 Chess.com Classic is the last online event of this year’s Champions Chess Tour (CCT). 2025 Chess.com Classic takes place May 18-23 and will feature some of the strongest players in the world. At stake are $150,000 and the last CCT Points, which will, in turn, determine the nine remaining players qualifying for the $1.5 million 2025 Esports World Cup (EWC) via the CCT.

Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura played against the winner of TCEC Swiss 7 Leela Chess Zero a promo match with knight odds. “Like every game it’s the same thing. It’s like I think I’m okay and then I’m not okay at all.” says Hikaru Nakamura. Replay the games in the video below.

The Semifinal of the Serbian Women Individual Championship 2025 is taking place 5-11 May in Senta, Serbia. It is a seven rounds round robin with WFM Vera Vujovic, WFM Anastasia Grozdanovic, WFM Sara Mijic, Marta Dakic, Irina Vujatovic, Zvezdana Ilic, Darya Iv. Timofeeva, Mia Ilic. See the open section here

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