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The 2025 edition of the Ljubljana Chess Festival is taking place 28 April – May 04 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia. This year’s edition of the open tournament is full of young talents, including Pranav V, Hasan Huseyin Celik, Maksym Goroshkov, Feliks Tulchynskyi, Bhattacherjee Aayush, Sohum Lohia, Rudi Olenik Campa, Nik Javornik, Das Sriansh, Miras Assylov, etc.

The 4th edition of the Mikis Theodorakis chess tournament took place 21-27 April in Chania, Greece. It was a 9 round Swiss tournament with 300+ players, divided in two groups – A group for 1700+ players, and B group.

WCF Nicosia Rapid Challenge is a FIDE-rated tournament that took place this weekend in Nicosia, Cyprus. IM Dimitris Alexakis won the event with 6,0/7, the same points but better tiebreak than IM Artem Sadovsky, FM Christos Krallis, Ismail Eren Midem, and IM Alexandros Papasimakopoulos.

The WCF Nicosia Rapid Challenge 2025 is a qualifying event, part of the World Chess Festival 2024-25, providing also ranking points towards determining the overall winner of the World Chess Festival 2024-25 (“WCF Champion”).

The Women’s World Champion GM Ju Wenjun has just visited Hong Kong, spreading the joy of chess. But she does not stop there. In an event hosted by Chess Istanbul, starting 28 April at 12:00 CEST, she plays a match vs the Turkish prodigy GM Ediz Gürel! The Ju Wenjun – Ediz Gurel match will be 4 rapid games, 4 blitz games, and 2 Freestyle rapid games.

Bobby Fischer was an enigmatic chess prodigy and a towering legend in the game’s history for his brilliance and unrelenting drive. He brought many innovations to the game of chess, and one of them was a substantial increase in money paid to chess players.

Thanks to the Historical Currency Convertor and The Big Book Of World Chess Championships by Andre Schulz, we find a realistic historical comparison in prize funds of World Championships, converted to today’s money value. HT: Anish Giri

A tournament called Battle of Champions 2025 will be held, jointly organized by the Azerbaijan Chess Federation, the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the National Carpet Museum. Battle of Champions 2025 is a match between a top chess player of Azerbaijan vs a world renowned player. The match is parallel to Baku Open 2025.

The Indian chess Grandmaster Guha Mitrabha is the new chess king of Australia. After winning the O2C Doeberl Chess 2025, now Guha Mitrabha conquered Sydney Open in the same month of April. GM Mitrabha finished with 7,5/9 at sole first, half a point ahead of silver medalist IM Ronald Dableo (Philippines). The bronze medal is for Sayantan Das (India). Top woman of the event is Anna-Maja Kazarian (Netherlands) with 5,0/9.

Baku Chess Open 2025 takes place April 28 – May 6 in Azerbaijan.

Sardinia World Chess Festival 2025 is taking place April 27 – May 3 in Italy. It is a 9 round FIDE rated Swiss Open. In total there are 59 titled players, including Grandmasters Daniel Dardha, Leon Luke Mendoca, S L Narayanan, Christopher Woojin Yoo, Francesco Sonis, Ihor Samunenkov, Lorenzo Ludici, Elham Amar, etc.

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Five-time Women’s World Chess Champion Grandmaster Ju Wenjun, who successfully defended her title just last week, does what a world champion should do – spreads the joy of chess through the world. Ju Wenjun made a visit to Hong Kong, an appearance coincided with a welcome event and exhibition match organized by the Hong Kong China Chess Federation in collaboration with Lingnan University. Accompanying her was her coach, Grandmaster Ni Hua.