The Tech Mahindra Global Chess League takes place Sat 13th Dec to Tuesday 23rd Dec 2025 in Mumbai. This is a very strong rapid team event and is on its third edition with previous events in Dubai and London. There are two stages, a round robin taking place until the 22nd of December followed by a final day where the top two teams playoff for the title and there is also a 3rd-4th […]

The Magistral Szmetan-Giardelli was Round Robin held in Buenos Aire 8th to 16th December 2025. Players: Aryan Tari, Ivan Cheparinov, Julio, Granda Zuniga, Alexei Shirov, Diego Flores, Sandro Mareco, Faustino Oro, Ilan Schnaider, Sergio Slipak and Tomas, Darcyl. Aryan Tari took a quick draw in the final round and won on tie-break from Ivan Cheparinov after both scored 6/9, Alexei Shirov was also very much in the running for first place going into […]

The 11th Vugar Gashimov Memorial took place in Stepanakert Tue 9th Dec to Thu 11th Dec 2025. There were two days of rapid and one day of blitz. Players: Nepomniachtchi, Fedoseev, Mamedov, Tabatabaei, Yakubboev and Suleymanli. Ian Nepomniachtchi won the rapid by half a point from Vladimir Fedoseev, the result was reversed for the blitz. The first tie-break was individual results between the players and Nepomniachtchi won one and drew one against Fedoseev […]

The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals took place Mon 8th Dec to Thu 11th Dec 2025. The venue was the Grootbos Private Nature Reserve two hours drive from Cape Town. The event was a fast rapid time control of 10 minutes + 5 seconds a move. Players: Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Vincent Keymer, Arjun Erigaisi, Levon Aronian, Hans Niemann, Parham Maghsoodloo and Javokhir Sindarov. Perhaps fittingly the two biggest advocates of this Chess960 […]

The 15th XTX Markets London Chess Classic took place Wed 26th Nov to Sun 7th Dec 2025. Players: Alireza Firouzja, Luke Mcshane, Michael Adams, Nikolas Theodorou, Sam Shankland, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Pavel Eljanov, Nikita Vitiugov, Abhimanyu Mishra and Gawain Maroroa Jones. Nodirbek Abdusattorov dominated the event scoring 7.5/9 and finished two points clear of Alireza Firouzja. The open saw Praggnanandhaa, Vladimir Ivic and Ameet Ghasi tie on 7/9. The Super Rapid was won by […]

The 15th XTX Markets London Chess Classic concluded with the Super Rapidplay over the final weekend. All of the players who featured in the Elite tournament also played the rapid and most of them were in the final shakeup. Nikolas Theodorou emerged as a clear winner with a fantastic 9/10 score, run to the title was: win against Luke McShane, win against Leinier Dominguez, draw against Alireza Firouzja and then win against Nodirbek […]

Nodirbek Abdusattorov's six game winning streak might have ended with a draw against Alireza Firouzja in Round 8 but it confirmed a clear win for him in the London Chess Classic with a round to spare, and this result was obtained from a position of strength. Abdusattorov had beaten Luke McShane in Round 7 with a long grind giving him a two point lead over Firouzja. Their Round 8 game was a Queen's […]

Nodirbek Abdusattorov leads the London Chess Classic with 5.5/6 one and a half points clear of Alireza Firouzja. After a first round draw Abdusattorov has now won five games in a row. In round five he defeated Nikolas Theodorou in a battling game. Abdusattorov chose the English after recently favouring 1.e4 and this seemed to sidestep all of his opponent's preparation and produce a nice advantage. Theodorou fought back and after 20 moves […]

Nodirbek Abdusattorov has started quickly to lead the London Chess Classic alone after four rounds. All the games were drawn in the first round, since then he has beaten Abhimanyu Mishra, Nikita Vitiugov and Michael Adams. Abdusattorov's win against Vitiugov is particularly interesting, as black Abdusattorov gradually took over the position but still had to be precise until the very end. Notes below. Close on Abdusattorov's heals is Alireza Firouzja who has wins […]