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Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025 is taking place August 6-15 in Chennai, India. The tournament was previously known as Chennai Chess Masters and featured 10 high ELO players in a Round Robin.

Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025 is expected to be stronger than last year’s edition, now that Quantbox has joined as sponsor. The event is among the major tournaments of The Chess Calendar

Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025 is taking place August 6-15 in Chennai, India. The tournament was previously known as Chennai Chess Masters and featured 10 high ELO players in a Round Robin.

Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025 is expected to be stronger than last year’s edition, now that Quantbox has joined as sponsor. The event is among the major tournaments of The Chess Calendar

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. It will feature Kimi k2 (Moonshot AI), Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google), Gemini 2.5 Flash (Google), o3 (OpenAI), o4-mini (OpenAI), Claude 4 Opus (Anthropic), Grok 4 (xAI), and DeepSeek R1.

The 24th European Youth Rapid & Blitz Championship 2025 is taking place August 05 – August 08 in Thessaloniki, Greece. The Rapid tournament is separated in 12 categories – Open U18. Girls U18, Open U16, Girls U16, Open U14, Girls U14, Open U12, Girls U12, Open U10, Girls U10, Open U8 and Girls U8. It is a 9 round Swiss system tournament with time control 15 min + 10 sec / move.

The 24th European Youth Rapid & Blitz Championship 2025 is taking place August 05 – August 08 in Thessaloniki, Greece. The Rapid tournament is separated in 12 categories – Open U18. Girls U18, Open U16, Girls U16, Open U14, Girls U14, Open U12, Girls U12, Open U10, Girls U10, Open U8 and Girls U8.. It is a 9 round Swiss system tournament with time control 15 min + 10 sec / move.

The III Campeonato Nacional e Internacional “Aguascalientes 2025” is taking place August 05 – August 09 in Aguascalientes, México. It is a 9 Swiss system tournament with time control 90 min + 30 sec /move. For more events from Mexico, check out The North American Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The 8th Jugando con las Estrellas 2025 is taking place August 08 – August 15 in Santa Cruz de La Palma, Spain. It is a 10 Swiss system tournament with time control 90 min + 30 sec /move. For more events from Spain, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The Campeonato de España por equipos de club 2025 is taking place August 05 – August 08 in Linares, Spain. The tournament is separated in 2 categories – Division de Honor and Ptimera Division. Primera Division section is a 8 team round-robin tournament with time control 90 min / 40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec /move. For more events from Spain, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The Campeonato de España por equipos de club 2025 is taking place August 05 – August 08 in Linares, Spain. The tournament is separated in 2 categories – Division de Honor and Ptimera Division. Division de Honor section is a 8 team round-robin tournament with time control 90 min / 40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec /move. For more events from Spain, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

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.

One of the participants in the event is Grok. It gladly agreed to an interview with Chessdom.com ahead of the Kaggle Game Arena AI exhibition chess tournament.