Chess on Sunday 25th May 2025

Sun May 25 20:29:00 2025

30th Sigeman & Co: Sindarov leads with 4/6, Ivanchuk loses on time again. Dubov leads Matlakov 2.5-1.5 in Moscow. Anish Giri wins the Sharjah Masters. Shogdzhiev is the youngest ever IM. Norway Chess starts Monday with Carlsen-Gukesh.

Chess on Saturday 24th May 2025

Sat May 24 21:21:00 2025

30th Sigeman & Co: Ivanchuk beats Erdogmus leaving Sindarov in the lead on 3.5/5. Sharjah Masters: Giri and Abdusattorov share the lead with 6/8 going into tomorrow's final round.

Chess on Friday 23rd May 2025

Fri May 23 22:03:00 2025

Nepomniachtchi wins the Karpov tournament. 30th Sigeman & Co - Erdogmus beat Rapport and Tan Zhongyi won on time vs Ivanchuk. Carlsen wins Chess.com Classic beating MVL 2.5-0.5

Chess on Thursday 22nd May 2025

Thu May 22 22:18:00 2025

Keymer wins the German Championship, Tan Zhongyi beats Rapport in round 3 of the 30th Sigeman & Co, MVL meets Carlsen tomorrow in the Grand Final of the Chess.com Classic after beating Nakamura in the Losers final.

Chess on Wednesday 21st May 2025

Wed May 21 21:00:00 2025

Keymer beats Bluebaum to pretty much secure the German Championships, Carlsen beats Abdusattorov and Nakamura in the Chess.com Classic, but Nakamura resigns the final game in a winning position. A strong rapid tournament in Moscow starts to commemorate Karpov's world title in 1975. Rapport, Erdogmus and Sindarov lead the Sigeman tournament on 1.5/2.

8th Sharjah Masters 2025

8th Sharjah Masters 2025 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Sun May 25 19:15:00 2025)

The 8th Sharjah Masters took place Sat 17th to Sun 25th May 2025. Leading players: Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Anish Giri, Parham Maghsoodloo, Samuel Sevian, Amin Tabatabaei M. Shant Sargsyan and Gabriel Sargissian etc. Anish Giri took clear first place with 7/9 beating Mittal Aditya in the final round. Nodirbek Abdusattorov could only draw with the black pieces against M Amin Tabatabaei. Bibisara Assaubayeva drew against Rinat Jumabayev and became the 43rd woman to earn the GM title. Read more ....

Match of Two Capitals 2025

Match of Two Capitals 2025 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Sat May 24 19:43:00 2025)

The Match of Two Capitals takes place in Moscow Sat 24th to Mon 26th May 2025. Daniil Dubov representing Moscow and Maxim Matlakov representing St Petersburg play a six game classical (90m + 30spm) match two games per day. Read more ....

96th ch-GER 2025

96th ch-GER 2025 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Fri May 23 21:47:00 2025)

The 96th German Championships took place Thu 15th May to Fri 23rd May 2025. Players: Vincent Keymer, Frederik Svane, Matthias Bluebaum, Rasmus Svane, Dennis Wagner, Alexander Donchenko, Niclas Huschenbeth, Martin Kraemer, Leonardo Costa and Marco Dobrikov.

Vincent Keymer secured clear first with a round to spare before losing a wild game in the final round to Donchenko. Dinara Wagner beat Hanna Marie Klek 2-0 in a 5m+10spm tie-break to win the women's title. Tobias Kuegel won the Candidates event with 7/9. The German blitz championships and women's blitz championships are tomorrow. I will treat that as a separate event.

Chess.com Classic 2025

Chess.com Classic 2025 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Fri May 23 18:20:00 2025)

The Chess.com Classic was the second and final of two Champions Chess Tour events that acted as qualifiers for the Esports World Cup. 12 players qualified. The tour moved to a blitz time control of 10 minutes per player. The event was a Double Elimination KO. Players: Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vladimir Fedoseev, Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura, Denis Lazavik, Arjun Erigaisi Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Vladislav, Artemiev, Wei Yi, D Gukesh, Nodirbek, Abdusattorov, R Praggnanandhaa and Ding Liren.

Magnus Carlsen won the event with very little fuss, he beat Hikaru Nakamura in the Winners final, the final game was notable for Nakamura's resignation in a winning position and then he won the Grand Final against MVL 2.5-0.5. The qualifiers for the Esports World Cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The 12 qualifiers are: Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Arjun Erigaisi, Alireza Friouzja, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Fabiano Caruana, Vladislav Artemiev, Wei Yi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Vladimir Fedoseev. Read more ....

Karpov Cup - 50 years later 2025

Karpov Cup - 50 years later 2025 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Fri May 23 18:15:00 2025)

The "Karpov Cup - 50 years later" is a 15m+10spm rapid tournament took place 21st to 23rd May in Moscow. The event commemorated the accession of Anatoly Karpov to the title of World Champion on April 4th 1975. Players: Ian, Nepomniachtchi, Vladislav Artemiev, Peter Svidler, Daniil Dubov, Alexander Grischuk, Teimour Radjabov, Vladimir Malakhov, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Hans Moke Niemann and Maxim Matlakov. Karpov celebrated his birthday on the final day, 23rd May. Ian Nepomniachtchi won the event with 6/9 half a point clear of Alexander Grischuk and Vladislav Artemiev. Read more ....

13th Norway Chess 2025

13th Norway Chess 2025

Mark Crowther (Thu May 22 12:40:00 2025)

The 13th Norway Chess tournament takes place Mon 26th May to Fri 6th Jun 2025 in Stavanger, Norway. There are two elite tournaments, the regular tournament and a women's event, both are 6 players and 10 rounds. Norway chess have a unique twist in that if games are drawn there is an additional Armageddon game. So the points are: Win in the classical game: 3 points, Loss in the classical game: 0 points, Draw in the classical game & win Armageddon: 1½ points, Draw in the classical game & loss Armageddon: 1 point.

Players: Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, D Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi, Fabiano Caruana and Wei Yi.

Women's event: Ju Wenjun, Lei Tingjie, Humpy Koneru, Anna Muzychuk,Rameshbabu Vaishali and Sarasadat Khademalsharieh.

French Interclubs Top 16 2025

French Interclubs Top 16 2025 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Thu May 22 12:10:00 2025)

The French Interclubs Top 16 takes place in Belfort Thu 22nd May to Sun 1st Jun 2025. The format is 7 preliminary rounds in two groups before the top half in each group go to Poule Haute and the bottom half to Poule Basse to decide titles and relegation.

Whilst it's by no means a given that all these players will play the team lists include: Firouzja, Niemann, MVL, Harikrishna, Esipenko, Jorden Van Foreest, Kasimdzhanov, Sadhwani, Tabatabaei, Eljanov, Karthikeyan, Murzin, Mamedov, Navara, Yuffa, Gawain Maroroa Jones, Gelfand, Dardha, Amin Bassem, Ivanchuk etc. Read more ....