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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 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 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.

Over 50 times women have won against SuperGMs, says OnTheQueenside at the new article at Lichess. Judit Polgar leads the list with 32 victories, Yifan Hou is with 17, Ju Wenjun is with 5, Antoaneta Stefanova and Anna Muzychuk are with 2.

Article by OnTheQueenside (Twitter/X https://x.com/OnTheQueenside)

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.