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The FIDE World Youth U14, U16 & U18 Championships 2025 will take place from October 03 to October 16 in Durres, Albania. The tournament is a 9-round Swiss system tournament with time control of 90 min/40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from Albania, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The FIDE World Youth U14, U16 & U18 Championships 2025 will take place from October 03 to October 16 in Durres, Albania. The tournament is a 9-round Swiss system tournament with time control of 90 min/40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from Albania, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The FIDE World Youth U14, U16 & U18 Championships 2025 will take place from October 03 to October 16 in Durres, Albania. The tournament is a 9-round Swiss system tournament with time control of 90 min/40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from Albania, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The 2025 European Team Chess Championship is set to take place from 4-15 October in Batumi, Georgia. The event is the most important team competition in the European Chess Calendar, part of The Chess Calendar

ETCC is played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with Open and Women’s sections separately. 76 teams participate in the Championship, with 40 teams in Open section and 36 teams in Women’s competition, and very strong fields in both tournaments.

The youngest International Master Roman Shogdzhiev in the world will make his first attempt at a GM Norm at a Swiss tournament.This will happen during the 2025 Elllobregat Chess Open. As of this moment, the field of Elllobregat has 97 players, 87 of them titled, and 21 GMs.

Recent: Roman Shogdzhiev is the youngest IM, breaks Faustino Oro record

The 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour concludes in Cape Town, South Africa, from December 5 to 12, 2025. This final event offers a prize pool of $660,000 USD and features a Chess960 format, where eight of the best placed participants in the Freestyle Chess Tour will battle for the Cape Town title.

The lineup is headed by World N1 Magnus Carlsen and his main opposition comes from the number 3 in the Freestyle rating list Fabiano Caruana and the Wissenhaus winner Vincent Keymer.

The 86th Annual South Carolina Chess Championship will take place October 3–5, 2025, hosted by the Columbia Chess Club. The event will be held at 6169 St. Andrews Road in Columbia, SC, offering an exciting weekend of competition for players from across the state.

The European Women Team Chess Championship 2025 will be held in Batumi, Georgia, from 4 to 15 October 2025. The event is the most important team competition in the European Chess Calendar, part of The Chess Calendar

The European Women Team Chess Championship 2025 will be held in Batumi, Georgia, from 4 to 15 October 2025. The event is the most important team competition in the European Chess Calendar, part of The Chess Calendar

Live games with computer analysis and video coverage will be live daily on Chessdom.com

The USA vs India chess match will take place Saturday October 4th 2025 at E-Sports Stadium Arlington, Texas. Leg 1 is coming up this weekend, while leg 2 will be played at a later date in India. The star players include:

Team USA: Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Carissa Yip, Levy Rozman, Tani Adewumi
Team India: World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju, Arjun Erigaisi, Divya Deshmukh, Sagar Shah, Ethan Vaz