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The rules of Grenke Chess 2025 allow players to switch from Classical to Freestyle after round 4. By switching, the players keep the points and new pairings are constructed. Awonder Liang, one of the leaders in the open section, has decided to make that switch and will be paired against Magnus Carlsen in round 6. Carlsen is sole leader of Grenke chess after R5 with perfect score

Rasmus Svane is a Danish-German chess grandmaster, born on May 21, 1997, in Allerød, Denmark, and currently living in Lübeck, Germany. He represents Germany in international competitions, including the European Team Chess Championship and the Chess Olympiad. As of September 2023, he is the No. 5 ranked German player with a FIDE rating of 2621, peaking at 2651 in May 2022. Svane learned chess at age 4 and achieved notable early success, winning the German U14 Chess Championship in 2010. He earned the International Master title in 2013 and the Grandmaster title in 2016 at age 19.

It took only five rounds for Magnus Carlsen to be sole leader of the massive Grenke Freestyle Chess Open 2025. The 5,0/5 dominant performance comes after Carlsen’s victory in Paris and in mathematical terms is equal to 3003 CPR (see more about CPR) Stay tuned for a full report

Chess speaks for itself and Hans Niemann speaks chess at an interview with Fiona Steil-Antoni at Grenke Chess 2025 (live games / information).

Hans Niemann comments extensively on the peculiarity of castling in Freestyle chess. (Fun fact: in 5 positions castling on the first move f1g1 is the best move in Freestyle! An article about this coming soon on Chessdom)

European Universities Chess Championship 2025, part of the European Universities Games, will take place from 16-20 September in Yerevan, Armenia. The event is organized by Armenian State University of Economics, Armenian Student Sports Federation and Chess Academy of Armenia, governed by the European University Sports Association (EUSA).

The form can be filled in the actual website url.

The form can be filled in the actual website url.

North American Youth Chess Championship 2025 will be held August 17-23, 2025 at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario (Canada).

The age categories for the 2025 North American Youth are Under 8, Under 10, Under 12, Under 14, Under 16, and Under 18. Each category has an Open and Girls section. For this tournament, a player’s age is his or her age as of Jan. 1, 2025. This event is open to players from Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

The Confederation of Chess for Americas (CCA) and the Peruvian Sports Chess Federation have announced the XXXV Pan-American Youth Chess Festival will be held from July 27 to August 3, at the Callao Regional Sports Village in Lima, Peru.

There will be 12 sections in the tournament, Open and Girls for each age category: Under 18, Under 16, Under 14, Under 12, Under 10 and Under 8. A player’s age as of January 1, 2025 determines their age eligibility for a section.

The form can be filled in the actual website url.