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The Hong Kong China Chess Federation proudly hosted an electrifying evening of chess, blitz battles, and live entertainment on April 29, 2025, featuring global chess influencer and Twitch superstar Nemo Zhou aka akaNemsko

Just a few weeks after stunning everyone at the FIDE World Youth and Cadet Championships 2025, Kazakhstan young players dominates yet another event. This time the Kazakhstan players won 16 of the possible 36 medals from the Western Asian Youth Chess Championship 2025 – leaving Uzbekistan at second place with 6 medals, and India with 5 medals.

The Sunway Formentera Chess Festival is taking place 29 April – May 9 at the Hotel Club Sunway Punta Prima in Es Pujols, Formentera, a picturesque island in Spain’s Balearic archipelago, near Ibiza. Top players include Valentin Dragnev, Arthur Kogan, Josep Manuel Lopez Martinez, Suvradeepta Das, Daniel Aishwin, Thomas Bauer, Vedant Pimpalkhare, Olivier Baillon, Vrushali Umesh Deodhar, Bhat Sudarshan. Live games will be daily on Chessdom

The Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez Ciudad de León, one of the most prestigious chess tournaments in the world, is set to celebrate its 38th edition from July 3 to July 7, 2025. Held in the vibrant city of León, Spain, this iconic event continues to captivate chess enthusiasts with its unique blend of high-level competition, cultural festivities, and a commitment to promoting the game across generations.

The 2025 Charlotte Spring ALTO (At Least Twenty-One) Chess Tournament is a 5-round chess event organized by the Charlotte Chess Center (CCC) in Charlotte, North Carolina, that took place April 25-27, 2025. ALTO is a 5 rounds Swiss event, with a registration cap of 140 players and a guaranteed prize fund of $5,000.

WGM Dina Belenkaya emerged victorious collecting 4,5/5 and adding +39,6 ELO rating

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After losing his game of round 5 from the US Chess Championship, GM Christopher Yoo destroyed his scoresheet, stormed out of the playing hall, “and struck a videographer from behind”. The Saint Louis chess club and the organizers of the US Championship did not approve of the reaction of Christopher Yoo and expelled him from the US Championship.

The 2025 edition of the Ljubljana Chess Festival is taking place 28 April – May 04 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia. This year’s edition of the open tournament is full of young talents, including Pranav V, Hasan Huseyin Celik, Maksym Goroshkov, Feliks Tulchynskyi, Bhattacherjee Aayush, Sohum Lohia, Rudi Olenik Campa, Nik Javornik, Das Sriansh, Miras Assylov, etc.

The 4th edition of the Mikis Theodorakis chess tournament took place 21-27 April in Chania, Greece. It was a 9 round Swiss tournament with 300+ players, divided in two groups – A group for 1700+ players, and B group.

WCF Nicosia Rapid Challenge is a FIDE-rated tournament that took place this weekend in Nicosia, Cyprus. IM Dimitris Alexakis won the event with 6,0/7, the same points but better tiebreak than IM Artem Sadovsky, FM Christos Krallis, Ismail Eren Midem, and IM Alexandros Papasimakopoulos.

The WCF Nicosia Rapid Challenge 2025 is a qualifying event, part of the World Chess Festival 2024-25, providing also ranking points towards determining the overall winner of the World Chess Festival 2024-25 (“WCF Champion”).

The Women’s World Champion GM Ju Wenjun has just visited Hong Kong, spreading the joy of chess. But she does not stop there. In an event hosted by Chess Istanbul, starting 28 April at 12:00 CEST, she plays a match vs the Turkish prodigy GM Ediz Gürel! The Ju Wenjun – Ediz Gurel match will be 4 rapid games, 4 blitz games, and 2 Freestyle rapid games.