Chess this weekend - 25th to 27th April 2025

Fri Apr 25 10:38:00 2025

Superbet Poland Rapid & Blitz (Praggnanandhaa, Firouzja etc) starts Saturday, Bundesliga finishes and Ivanchuk leads in Menorca with 5/5.

Humpy Koneru edges out Zhu Jiner to win the Pune Women's Grand Prix

Wed Apr 23 20:31:00 2025

Koneru scores a record 8th Women's Grand Prix win but it's likely not going to be enough to qualify for the Candidates.

Ju Wenjun beats Tan Zhongyi 6.5-2.5 to remain Women's World Chess Champion

Wed Apr 16 10:54:00 2025

Ju Wenjun defends her title successfully for the fourth time with a comfortable draw in game 9.

Ju Wenjun all but retains her Women's World Championship crown after a fourth win in a row

Mon Apr 14 12:36:00 2025

Ju Wenjun just needs a draw to retain her title after going 6-2 ahead.

Ju Wenjun wins third game in a row to lead 5-2

Fri Apr 11 13:38:00 2025

Ju was under pressure from Tan Zhongyi until time trouble when she took over.

Superbet Poland Rapid & Blitz 2025

Superbet Poland Rapid & Blitz 2025 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Fri Apr 25 11:51:00 2025)

The Superbet Poland Rapid & Blitz takes place Sat 26th Apr 2025 to Thu 1st May 2025. Players: Praggnanandhaa, Firouzja, Aravindh, Aronian, Duda, Fedoseev, Vachier-Lagrave, Topalov, Deac, Gavrilescu. A three day rapid is followed by a two day blitz event. Read more ....

Bundesliga 2024-25

Bundesliga 2024-25 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Fri Apr 25 11:02:00 2025)

The Bundesliga takes place Sat 28th Sep 2024 to Sun 27th Apr 2025. Duesseldorfer SK leads by three points over SC Viernheim going into the final three rounds held in Deggendorf. They do meet in round 15 but likely Duesseldorfer SK will have won by then. Baden Baden are a further point behind in 3rd place. Read more ....

IV Menorca Open 2025

IV Menorca Open A 2025 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Fri Apr 25 11:00:00 2025)

The IV Menorca Open takes place Tue 22nd Apr to Sun 27th Apr 2025. Players: Nihal Sarin, Sam Shankland, Volodar Murzin, Karthikeyan, Puranik, Pranav, Lu Shanglei. Vasyl Ivanchuk etc. Read more ....

Chinese Teams 2025

Chinese Teams 2025 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Fri Apr 25 09:09:00 2025)

The Chinese Team Championship takes place Fri 25th Apr to Sat 3rd May 2025 in Zhangjiakou, China. Players including Wang Yue, Li Chao B, Xu Xiangyu in the men's and Shen Yang and Ding Yixin in the women's. Read more ....

Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2025

Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2025 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Wed Apr 23 08:51:00 2025)

The Pune FIDE Women's Grand Prix took place April 13-24. Players: Humpy Koneru, Divya Deshmukh, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Harika Dronavalli, Nurgyul Salimova, Batkhuyag Munguntuul, Zhu Jiner, Alina Kashlinskaya, Melia Salome and Polina Shuvalova. Humpy Koneru just edged out Zhu Jiner to take first place on tie-break, both scored 7/9. Read more ....

• Humpy Koneru edges out Zhu Jiner to win the Pune Women's Grand Prix

grenke Open and Freestyle Open 2025

grenke Chess Open 2025 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Sat Apr 19 12:31:00 2025)

The grenke Open and Freestyle Open took place 17th to 21st April 2025. The open had top seeds Awonder Liang, Nikita Vitiugov and Ivan Saric but the Freestyle Chess960 open had the stronger field with Magnus Carlsen, Arjun Erigaisi, Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi etc. I can't display Freestyle games. Carlsen impressively clonked his way through the field in the Freestyle and scored 9/9. Parham Maghsoodloo finished in second place on tie-break after claims a place in Las Vegas, it's my understanding that the remaining 6 players will play off for another place in that Freestyle-Chess Grand Slam event sometime soon.

S Aswath and Brandon Jacobson finished on 8/9 in the regular chess open, finishing in that tie-break order. Finally I was interested to see that grenke had a rebrand about 10 months ago and went from the all caps GRENKE to all small letters grenke (with a modern font). No doubt someone was paid big bucks for this genius move. Read more ....

FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025

FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Fri Apr 18 16:54:00 2025)

The FIDE Women's World Chess Championship took place in Shanghai and finished in Chongqing, China. The event was supposed to take place 3rd to 20th April 2025 but finished early on 16th April with the closing ceremony two days later. Defending champion Ju Wenjun won comfortably 6.5-2.5 against her challenger and predecessor Tan Zhongyi. Read more ....

• Ju Wenjun beats Tan Zhongyi 6.5-2.5 to remain Women's World Chess Champion
• Ju Wenjun all but retains her Women's World Championship crown after a fourth win in a row
• Ju Wenjun wins third game in a row to lead 5-2
• Ju Wenjun takes control of her match against Tan Zhongyi with two wins in a row