Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour

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FREESTYLE CHESS GRAND SLAM TOUR 2025 🏆 South Africa Dec Trailer 2025

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Las Vegas Grand Slam Recap: Levon Aronian wins his first Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Title! 🏆

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The Next Move: Las Vegas – A Freestyle Chess Original Doku

Grand Slam Standings

Players

FCC Points

Prize Money

Magnus Carlsen

$ 585.000

Fabiano Caruana

$ 385.000

Hikaru Nakamura

$ 250.000

Vincent Keymer

$ 282.000

Levon Aronian

$ 243.000

Arjun Erigaisi

$ 132.000

Hans Moke Niemann

$ 143.000

Parham Maghsoodloo

$ 35.000

Andrey Esipenko

Frederik Svane

$ 25.000

Nodirbek Abdusattorov

$ 90.500

Javokhir Sindarov

$ 73.000

Leinier Domínguez

$ 38.000

Alexey Sarana

$ 20.000

Praggnanandhaa R.

$ 52.500

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

$ 41.500

Alireza Firouzja

$ 45.000

Ian Nepomniachtchi

$ 40.500

Dommaraju Gukesh

$ 39.500

Wesley So

$ 31.000

Rauf Mamedov

$ 10.500

Richard Rapport

$ 20.500

Vladimir Fedoseev

$ 9.000

Leon Luke Mendonca

$ 2.500

Vidit S. Gujarathi

$ 25.000

Wei Yi

$ 14.500

Ding Liren

$ 13.000

Amin Tabatabaei

Lê Quang Liêm

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

$ 8.000

Samuel Sevian

Ray Robson

Bibisara Assaubayeva

$ 7.500

M Pranesh

Jan-Krzysztof Duda

$ 7.000

Chithambaram Aravindh

$ 4.000

Anish Giri

$ 2.500

Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son

Yu Yangyi

$ 500

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5th #FreestyleFriday win for Arjun 🔥 He clinches victory with a great performance, scoring 10/11 points 🚀

Hans Niemann 🥈
Denis Lazavik🥉

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Freestyle Chess Season Finals
8.–11. December, South Africa🇿🇦

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Heartbreak on move 115 💔

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Maxime with a beautiful tactic, taking down Magnus in Freestyle Friday 😎 #FreestyleChess

These guys can teach you something new every day 🤓
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No mistakes allowed at this level 😮‍💨

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Big win for Pranesh M in today’s #FreestyleFriday! 🚀
The Indian GM scores 9/11 and tops the table in a very tough field. 🔥

Magnus Carlsen 🥈
Maxime

Are we living in chess’ strongest generation? 👀 #FreestyleChess

If you have mate in one, look for better 👀
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is going live for Freestyle Friday!🔥

After a six-year streaming break, MVL is finally making his comeback and we couldn’t be more excited to

Hikaru dominating as usual with 8 wins in his pocket 😎

Freestyle Friday standings after 11 months 🥳

🥇 Hikaru Nakamura
🥈 Oleksandr Bortnyk
🥉 Arjun Erigaisi

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Arjun dropping hot takes😎 #FreestyleChess

A brilliant way to end the game 🤩 #FreestyleChess

Hans Niemann opens up about feeling unsupported by his own country in the new documentary, coming this Friday, November 21st, to our YouTube-Channel Freestyle_Chess, 👀

Hans on fire 🔥 With a dominant performance scoring 10/11 points, he secures the top spot in today‘s #FreestyleFriday 💪

Jules Moussard 🥈
Sanan Sjugirov 🥉

In

10 hours of #FreestyleChess between Fabi and Pragg, all ending in Armageddon! ♟️🍿

Who remembers this legendary battle? ⚔️

ℹ️ Relive the entire Las Vegas Grand Slam

GM Rasmus Svane is going live for Freestyle Friday! 🎥
Rasmus usually streams on his channel GMRasmusSvane, mostly in German. But tomorrow, he’s switching things up

Hikaru is not gonna like this one 😂😎 #FreestyleChess

Levon used to walk the dog, now he walks through life with his queens 🤩 #FreestyleChess

“I just got them all“ - Magnus Carlsen, humble as always 😂🤩 #FreestyleChess

The World Stage of Freestyle Chess – Where the Game Meets the Place

Let the legend begin

The first Freestyle Chess Grand Slam is underway — a global series played at some of the most striking and exclusive locations the chess world has ever seen. It’s a new kind of tournament, bringing top-level competition to settings where style, atmosphere, and ambition meet.

Feb. 7–14, 2025

Grand Slam I: Weissenhaus, Germany

Vincent Keymer won the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam in Weissenhaus, overcoming a world-class field on home soil. The event took place at the Weissenhaus Private Nature Luxury Resort — a five-star retreat on the Baltic Sea that combines contemporary comfort with heritage architecture.

Apr. 8–15, 2025

Grand Slam II: Paris, France

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In April, the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam 2025 made its stop in Paris — a vibrant city of ideas, rhythm, culture and enduring style. There, world number one Magnus Carlsen faced number two Hikaru Nakamura in an evergreen final that lived up to the occasion, with Carlsen emerging as champion once more.

Apr. 17–21, 2025

Grand Slam III: Karlsruhe, Germany

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In April, the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam continued in Karlsruhe with its first Open event — part of the 3,000-player grenke Freestyle Chess Festival. Magnus Carlsen won all nine games, calling it a performance so strong he may never repeat it — in a field where amateurs and elite competed side by side.

Jul. 16-20, 2025

Grand Slam IV: Las Vegas, USA

This July, the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam arrives in Las Vegas — a new chapter for the format where intuition meets calculation. After winning in Paris and Karlsruhe, Magnus Carlsen enters as the man to beat. Under the lights of a city that thrives on risk, the big question is: can he do it again?

Dec. 8-11, 2025

Final: South Africa

In December 2025, the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam reaches its grand finale — the decisive event of the 2025 tour. Here, rankings will be finalized and one Freestyle Chess champion will emerge, in a setting as dynamic and unpredictable as the format itself.

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Impressions of the last games

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