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Grand Chess Tour Bucharest is the third event of the tour. The event is featuring Fabiano Caruana, Gukesh Dommaraju, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Alireza Firouzja, Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Bogdan-Daniel Deac

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The Asian Individual Chess Championship 2025 is taking place 7-15 May in Al Ain, UAE. The event features Nihal Sarin, M. Amin Tabatabaei, Nodirbek Yakubboev, Murali Karthikeyan, Shamsiddin Vokhidov, Ngoc Truong Son Nguyen, A.R. Saleh Salem, Pouya Idani, Leon Luke Mendonca, Abhimanyu Puranik, Xiangyu Xu, Bardiya Daneshvar, V Pranav, Jingyao Tin, S L Narayanan, etc. Scroll down for the full list. The top 10 in the Open section and the top 2 in the Women’s section will qualify for their respective FIDE World Cups.

The Algerian Individual Chess Championships took place 24-28 April in Alger. Ala Eddine Boulrens is the sole winner of the open section with 8,0/9, after finishing at second place in last year’s event. WIM Lina Nassr won the women section with a perfect 9,0/9

Just last weekend Real Madrid’s top offensive midfielder Arda Guler achieved 100% pass accuracy vs Celta. Guler shone bright across the 90 minutes on Sunday, opening the scoring courtesy of a brilliant left-footed strike, before laying on an equally brilliant assist for Kylian Mbappe.

Thanks to Sabopasha, now we know the secret of Guler! He masters his strategy on the field with chess!

Big Rook Chess Festival 2025 is taking place 7-12 May in Bangkok, Thailand. The main open is a 9 rounds classical Swiss with GM Darwin Laylo as top seeded.

The Big Rook Chess Festival 2025 contains also a rapid event on May 11, a blitz event on May 10, and multiple youth events.

Big Rook Chess Festival 2025 participants

The National Championship of Morocco in rapid and blitz chess will take place in Marrakech. The rapid section will be played May 10, while the blitz will happen on May 11. All news about Morocco here

Chessdom will follow the event and more news be found in the Chessdom Newsletter – you can sign up for free in the form below

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Legendary American Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky, “Yermo”, remains hospitalized in Tekirdag, Turkey after undergoing a four-way heart bypass. A second emergency surgery was performed five days later for sternal wound infection and respiratory failure. Compounding his problems, sternal fractures were found during the second surgery. Yermo is being crushed by medical bills which his Medicare is not covering as there is no reciprocal agreement with Turkey.

Visit the GoFundMe campaign for Uncle Yermo

Following the resounding success of its inaugural edition in Kazakhstan, the FIDE World Schools Team Championship is back — and it’s set to be bigger and more global than ever before!

The tournament will be played over 8 rounds, in a Swiss format, with each team consisting of four main players, mixed age, one reserve and one non-playing captain. Time control is 45 minutes + 10 seconds per move, with two games per day across four action-packed days.

Levy Rozman aka GothamChess is going on a European Chess Tour. It takes place May 8 – 17 in Brussels, London, Vienna, Berlin, Munich and Warsaw. Rozman, with nearly 6 million YouTube subscribers (which have generated more than 3 billion views) will bring his unique teaching style to the live stage on a multi-city European tour.

The Czech Amateur Championship is taking place 6-11 May in Hluk, Czech Republic. A total of 250 players compete in this year’s event which is a 9 rounds Swiss open for amateurs under 2300 elo. Scroll down for the full list.

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