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The 2025 FIDE Circuit is a system comprising the top chess tournaments in 2025, which serves as a qualification path for the Candidates Tournament 2026. Players receive points based on their performance and the strength of the tournament. A player's final Circuit score is the sum of their seven best results of the year.
Prague Chess Festival: Prague: Round robin 25 Feb – 7 Mar 10 (4) GCT Romania Bucharest: Round robin 5 – 17 May 10 TePe Sigeman & Co tournament: Malmö: Round robin 20 – 26 May 8 Norway Chess: Stavanger: Double round robin 26 May – 6 Jun 6 (6) Biel Chess Festival: Biel/Bienne: Multi-stage 12 – 25 Jul 6 Sinquefield Cup: St. Louis: Round ...
The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour is a series of Chess960 tournaments in 2025 organized by Freestyle Chess Operations. It will consist of five "Grand Slam" tournaments following the format of the Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge, held in 2024. Players will score points based on placement in each event.
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
(January 2025) The winner of the 2024 FIDE Circuit [a] Fabiano Caruana: 32 2803 2 The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 [b] TBD TBD The top three finishers in the Chess World Cup 2025 [c] TBD TBD TBD The winner of the 2025 FIDE Circuit [d] TBD Highest rating averaged from August 2025 to January 2026 [e] TBD
Liang achieved a score of 6/9, for second place behind Jeffery Xiong, who won with a score of 6½/9. He won four games, drew four, and lost one game to Xiong. In May 2017, Liang earned his final two Grandmaster norms in back-to-back tournaments at the Spring Chess Classic in St. Louis (Group B) and the Chicago Open, with the latter won on May 29.
The U.S. Masters Championship is an official national chess championship sanctioned by US Chess that has been held 27 times since 1982. The event is a Swiss tournament usually restricted to players who have established peak ratings over 2200, plus high rated junior players, at the discretion of the organizer.
In November 2021, Yoo tied for 3rd place at the U.S. Masters Chess Championship with a performance rating of 2604, earning his third GM norm. [8] On December 12, 2021, Yoo achieved a live FIDE rating of 2500.2 after round 5 of the Marshall Chess Club Championship, fulfilling the last requirement for the Grandmaster title.