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Aktobe Chess Open 2025 aka Vladimir Dvorkovich Memorial is going to take place June 22 – June 30 in Aktobe, Kazakhstan. Top participants include Hao Wang, Alexey Sarana, Shant Sargsyan, Ivan Cheparinov, Bardiya Daneshvar, Sanan Sjugirov, Arkadij Naiditsch, Chopra Aryan, Andrew Hong, Mustafa Yilmaz, Ivan Zemlyanskii, Mittal Aditya, Rithvik Raja, Kazybek Nogerbek, Dmitry Bocharov, Haowen Xue, Alisher Suleymenov, Zhamsaran Tsydypov, Nikita Afanasiev, Mahdi Gholami Orimi, Edgar Mamedov, Murtas Kazhgaleyev, Artem Uskov, etc

At the final tournament of the Swiss Youth Single Championship (SJEM) in Winterthur, the five titles went to Raphael Gut (U16), Colin Federer (U14), Marius Neuschild (U12), Grigorios Emmanouil Toumpakaris (U10) and David Sadeh (U8). Scroll down for all the games and full list of the Swiss youth and junior chess champions

FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team 2025 participants feature 104 Grandmasters (including 5 from the World top 10 – Hikaru Nakamura, Arjun Erigaisi, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Alireza Firouzja, Ian Nepomniachtchi) 63 IMs, and a total of 316 titled players. See the full participants list here

FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team 2025 participants feature 104 Grandmasters (including 5 from the World top 10 – Hikaru Nakamura, Arjun Erigaisi, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Alireza Firouzja, Ian Nepomniachtchi) 63 IMs, and a total of 316 titled players. See the full participants list here

The FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team Championships take place June 10-16, 2025, in London, United Kingdom. The World Rapid and Blitz Team Championships are back – with a record-breaking €500,000 prize fund. This is double the prize fund of Dusseldorf, which was €250,000, and more than Kazakhstan, which was €350,000.

The preliminary round of the Chinese National Chess Games 2025 takes place June 11-13 in Huairou, Beijing, China. It is a team event with solid participation, including Wei Yi, Bu Xingzhi, Wang Yue, Li Chao B, Dai Changren, Zhang Pengxiang, Yan Liu, Peng Xiongjian, etc.

Live games will be daily on Chessdom. The Chinese National Chess Games is one of the top events in The Chess Calendar for the month of June.

Forni di Sopra 2025 is part of the Italian chess summer. The tournament, now in its 16th edition, is taking place June 7 – June 14 in the beautiful Forni de Sopra in Udine.

WCF Malta Rapid Challenge 2025 took place this weekend in La Valeta. It was a rapid competition, part of the WCF series. The Italian player Luca Magini was the surprise of the event, winning it ahead of the titled players. Magini finished with 6,0/9, the same points as Grandmaster Xavier Vila Gazquez (who recently won orneo de Ajedrez Vila de Santa Coloma de Queralt), but with a better tiebreak the Italian grabbed the gold.

It took great moves, superb tactics, emotions, chess drama, table banging, but there it is – the number 1 among the top 100 chess players Magnus Carlsen is the winner of Norway Chess 2025. Replay all the games here

See he future tournaments of the Norway Chess 2025 champion in the Magnus Carlsen chess calendar

The Ukranian Grandmaster Anna Muzychuk is the winner of Norway Chess Women 2025. Anna Muzychuk entered the last round with solid advantage. A draw with Vaishali R was enough for her to secure the win. Congratulations! Replay all games here

See the Norway Chess 2025 champion future tournaments in the Anna Muzychuk chess calendar

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