Chess Calendar 2025: What’s in retailer for the game in 2025? This is the complete listing of occasions

The world of chess ushered within the new yr on a fairly distinctive however controversial observe – with world No 1
Magnus Carlsen sharing the Blitz world title with Russian Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi on the World Fast and Blitz Championships in New York Metropolis earlier this week. The event had by no means witnessed something like this up to now, at the very least in FIDE-recognised occasions. Carlsen, in the meantime, was accused of match-fixing after a clip that has gone viral on social media confirmed the five-time world champion having a backstage chat with Nepomniachtchi throughout the remaining, wherein Carlsen’s request for a break up title was accepted after a sequence of stalemates.

The yr that received off to an uncommon begin due to Carlsen’s drama within the ‘Large Apple’ can even the debut of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour – a personal event launched by the Norwegian GM as properly and German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner that will get underway in February and will likely be internet hosting occasions in 5 places internationally, together with New Delhi in September. The event, although,
has been mired in controversy in latest weeks particularly after Carlsen was accused of “blackmailing” FIDE into recognising the event and in addition permitting it to have its personal World Championship.

The yr can even be the primary in a decade wherein an Indian will likely be defending his world title, with
Dommaraju Gukesh having defeated China’s Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 simply final month in Singapore.  Gukesh had a terrific run in 2024 – changing into the youngest champion within the historical past of the Candidates Event in addition to the World Championship and starring in India’s golden sweep on the Chess Olympiad in Budapest. Can he recreate that magic in 2025 as properly, and maybe obtain the 2800 ELO ranking within the course of?

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Lest we neglect, we’ve a whole technology of Indian chess stars, with Arjun Erigaisi presently ranked one spot forward of him on FIDE scores at fourth, and Gukesh can count on a good bit of competitors from him in addition to from the likes of R Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi, amongst others.

Right here’s a have a look at what worldwide chess has in retailer for us in 2025:

January

Kuwait Worldwide Chess Pageant Masters Open — January 5-14

Kuwait Worldwide Chess Pageant Fast Open — January Sep 11

fiftieth Worldwide Chess Open Metropolis of Seville — January 10-19

Seville Worldwide Ladies’s Event — January 11-13

Endorfy Chess Problem Poland — January 16-27

Tata Metal Chess — January 17-February 3

Caissa Bordeux Fast — January 26-27

New Zagreb Traditional 2025 — January 31-February 2

February

First Saturday Norm Tournaments 2025 February — February 1-9

Erno Dede Memorial — February 6-9

Vietnam Score Event — February 7-16

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour Weissenhaus — February 7-14

Worldwide Chess Open Graz 2025 — February 15-21

FIDE Ladies’s Grand Prix Sequence third leg — February 17-28

March

fifth Wooden Inexperienced Invitational — March 5-10

Africa Ladies’s Chess Championship — March 8

FIDE Ladies’s Grand Prix Sequence 4th Leg — March 14-25

SixDays March — March 24-29

April

Asian Youth Chess Championship — April 1-11

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour Paris — April 8-15

FIDE World Cadet & Youth Fast and Blitz Championships — April 12-18

FIDE Ladies’s Grand Prix Sequence fifth leg (India) — April 13-24

Chess Cruise — April 13-26

Fast and Blitz Poland — April 24-Might 1

Might

Chess Traditional Romania — Might 5-17

FIDE Ladies’s Grand Prix sixth leg — Might 6-17

Asian Particular person Males’s and Ladies’s Chess Championships — Might 6-15

ninth Worldwide Bodonee Open — Might 24-June 1

Worldwide Bodonsee Senioren Open — Might 25-31

Norway Chess — Might 26-June 6

June

Teplice Open — June 14-22

FIDE World Cup U8, U10, U12 — June 22-July 3

Fast and Blitz Croatia — June 30-July 7

July

FIDE Ladies’s World Cup — July 5-29

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour New York — July 17-24

58th Biel Chess Pageant — July 12-25

IPCA World Particular person Chess Championship (Jamshedpur, India)

August

Asian Novice Chess Championship — August 1-9

Africa Novice Chess Championships — August 17-23

Saint Louis Fast & Blitz: August 9-16

Sinquefield Cup: August 16-29, 2025

September

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour Delhi — September 17-24

FIDE World Youth U14, U16 and U18 Championships — September 30-October 13

October

FIDE World Senior Championships — October 20-November 2

Open Hvar — October 20-26

November

FIDE World Novice Chess Championships — November 4-14

December

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour Cape City — December 5-12