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Faustino Oro and Mateusz Bartel match will decide the wild card spot at the Grand Swiss Chess 2025 in a direct encounter. The match will follow a similar structure to the Pranav Venkatesh vs Kazybek Nogerbek, Grand Swiss WC qualifier

The AI models are still far from the Top Chess Engine Championship , which has just started its Premier division of Season 28, and you can follow it live at the official website. Still, it will be an interesting experiment to see where AI stands, compared to “traditional” chess engines on monster hardware.

Recent: New record: Stockfish crosses the 3700 elo mark

Kaggle Game Arena is starting with an AI exhibition chess tournament. A unique and powerful approach to understanding AI capabilities, Kaggle Game Arena, in partnership with Google DeepMind, announced a new platform where leading AI models will compete head-to-head in chess and other games.

The Turkish Chess Super League takes place August 4 – August 16 in Ankara, Türkiye. It is one of the major events of the European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

Yeoh Li Tian, born October 16, 1999, is Malaysia’s first-ever chess Grandmaster (GM). He earned the GM title after securing his third norm and surpassing the 2500 FIDE rating mark by winning the GM-IM Invitational Chess Championship in Kuala Lumpur on August 3, 2025. This lifelong honor, awarded by the International Chess Federation (FIDE), places him among a little more than 2,000 Grandmasters worldwide.

Szachy w Ustroniu łączą pokolenia aka Chess Festival Katowice is taking place August 2 – August 8 in Katowice, Poland.

World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju will play Poland’s top player Jan-Krzysztof Duda this August 7 in Katowice. The match is a 6 games blitz event and games will be daily live on Chessdom

Calendar of Gukesh / Calendar of Duda

Vladimir Fedoseev won Biel Chess 2025 and went on to play the Esports World Chess Cup. There he qualified from the group stage, but (without further information given) has withdrawn and was substituted by Artemiev in the quarterfinal.

The 125th edition of the US Open took place July 29 – August 3 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Dariusz Swiercz is the winner of the event with 8,0/9, ahead of Daniel Naroditsky, Jianchao Zhou, Joshua Friedel, Tanguy Ringoir, Harsha Bharathakoti, Varuzhan Akobian, Praveen Balakrishnan, Sam Schmakel, Oleksii Bilych, Sebastian Kostolansky with 7,5/9.

Vignesh Advaith Vemula becomes the latest International Master of India The 15-year-old from Telangana earned his final IM-norm at 100th Paris IdF Masters held in Paris, France from 12th to 18th July. The teenager earned his first IM-norm at 1st SOA International Chess Festival 2024 GM tournament in February last year. A little over ten months later, he earned his second IM-norm at 15th Odisha Open Grandmaster Chess Festival in December 2024. He also crossed 2400 at the same event. In January 2025 he had a published rating of 2424. Currently, his rating is his highest so far 2441.