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Major success for Indian players at O2C Doebrl Chess 2025 – GM Guha Mitrabha wins the gold medal of the event, ahead of his compatriot GM Sayantan Das who takes silver. The bronze medal is for local hero GM Zong-Yuan Zhao

Magnus Carlsen continues to showcase his natural talent and chess skills at the Grenke Freestyle Chess 2025 tournament. Yesterday he was with perfect 5,0/7 and today he continued his rampage by winning against Awonder Liang in round 6 and against Parham Maghsoodloo in round 7. His perfect score performance rating for 7/7 is 3094 CPR (read more about CPR here)

For a million dreams! Record broken! Tunde Onakoya and Shawn Martinez have played 62 hours of chess non-stop, a record marathon!

And they are going for the 70 hours mark – follow their record achievement with live video feed here

See the moment when the 61+ mark was crossed and the record was officially broken. For a million dreams – follow the accounts of Tunde Onakoya and The Gift of Chess to support them

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The rules of Grenke Chess 2025 allow players to switch from Classical to Freestyle after round 4. By switching, the players keep the points and new pairings are constructed. Awonder Liang, one of the leaders in the open section, has decided to make that switch and will be paired against Magnus Carlsen in round 6. Carlsen is sole leader of Grenke chess after R5 with perfect score

Rasmus Svane is a Danish-German chess grandmaster, born on May 21, 1997, in Allerød, Denmark, and currently living in Lübeck, Germany. He represents Germany in international competitions, including the European Team Chess Championship and the Chess Olympiad. As of September 2023, he is the No. 5 ranked German player with a FIDE rating of 2621, peaking at 2651 in May 2022. Svane learned chess at age 4 and achieved notable early success, winning the German U14 Chess Championship in 2010. He earned the International Master title in 2013 and the Grandmaster title in 2016 at age 19.

It took only five rounds for Magnus Carlsen to be sole leader of the massive Grenke Freestyle Chess Open 2025. The 5,0/5 dominant performance comes after Carlsen’s victory in Paris and in mathematical terms is equal to 3003 CPR (see more about CPR) Stay tuned for a full report

Chess speaks for itself and Hans Niemann speaks chess at an interview with Fiona Steil-Antoni at Grenke Chess 2025 (live games / information).

Hans Niemann comments extensively on the peculiarity of castling in Freestyle chess. (Fun fact: in 5 positions castling on the first move f1g1 is the best move in Freestyle! An article about this coming soon on Chessdom)

European Universities Chess Championship 2025, part of the European Universities Games, will take place from 16-20 September in Yerevan, Armenia. The event is organized by Armenian State University of Economics, Armenian Student Sports Federation and Chess Academy of Armenia, governed by the European University Sports Association (EUSA).

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