Las Vegas Freestyle Chess Grand Slam
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Sport | Chess variant (Chess960) |
| Location | Las Vegas, United States |
| Dates | 16 July 2025–20 July 2025 |
Tournament format(s) | Single-elimination tournament with round-robin seeding round |
| Host(s) | Freestyle Chess Operations |
| Venue | Pavillon Chesnaie du Roy |
| Participants | 16 |
The Las Vegas Freestyle Chess Grand Slam is a Chess960 tournament that takes place in Las Vegas, United States from 16 July to 20 July 2025. It is the fourth leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, a series of Chess960 tournaments being held throughout 2025.[1]
Regulation changes
While the second leg had 12 participants playing in the main event, the number of participants was increased to 16 for the fourth leg. However, while before only the top eight players after the round-robin stage qualified for the main knockout bracket, now all the remaining eight players will still play for positions 9-16 in a double-elimination style format.[2]
Qualification
Main event
Participants
Leading up to the later-to-be-called third leg of the Grand Slam Tour, the Grenke Freestyle Chess Open, the organizers of the Freestyle Tour and the Grenke Open announced to publish a world rating list for Freestyle based on the tournament results.[3]
In the newest edition of their Rules and Regulation, Freestyle Chess increased the number of players in a Grand Slam to 16 and replaced the qualification by FIDE rating with the Freestyle rating.
| Qualification method | Player | Age | Classical Rating | World Ranking |
Freestyle Rating[4] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (June 2025) | |||||
| The top three finishers in the previous closed Grand Slam | Magnus Carlsen (winner) | 34 | 2837 | 1 | 2909 |
| Hikaru Nakamura (runner-up) | 37 | 2804 | 2 | 2818 | |
| Fabiano Caruana (third place) | 32 | 2777 | 4 | 2804 | |
| World Chess Champion | Gukesh Dommaraju (withdrew) | 19 | 2776 | 5 | 2701 |
| Winner of the Grenke Freestyle Chess Open | Parham Maghsoodloo (had to withdraw due to Visa-related issues) | 24 | 2691 | 38 | 2712 |
| Winner of the Aeroflot Open 2025 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | 34 | 2757 | 10 | 2771 |
| The three highest rated players in Freestyle Ranking | R Praggnanandhaa | 19 | 2767 | 7 | 2773 |
| Vincent Keymer | 20 | 2730 | 22 | 2766 | |
| Alireza Firouzja (withdrew) | 22 | 2766 | 8 | 2764 | |
| Wild cards[a] | Arjun Erigaisi | 21 | 2782 | 3 | 2760 |
| Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 20 | 2767 | 6 | 2720.8 | |
| Leinier Dominguez Perez | 41 | 2738 | 18 | 2749 | |
| Levon Aronian | 42 | 2742 | 16 | 2758 | |
| Wesley So | 31 | 2745 | 14 | 2737 | |
| Vidit Gujrathi | 30 | 2720 | 25 | 2713 | |
| Javokhir Sindarov | 19 | 2710 | 29 | 2702 | |
| Bibisara Assaubayeva | 21 | 2509 | 547 | 2506 | |
| Ray Robson (replacement for Maghsoodloo) | 30 | 2687 | 40 | 2687 | |
| Winner of the online play-in | Hans Niemann | 22 | 2736 | 20 | 2722 |
| Sources:[5] | |||||
Group Stage
White Group
Black Group
Knockout Stage
Upper Bracket
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Grand Final | ||||||||||||
Lower Bracket
| Lower Quarterfinals | Intermediate Red | Intermediate Green | Lower Semifinals | 3rd Place Final | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 12 | – | 3 | – | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 7 | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | – | 8 | – | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | – | 1 | – | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 13 | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 | – | 14 | – | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 | – | 7 | – | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 31 | – | 16 | – | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 32 | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||
5th and 7th place Finals
References
- ^ From Freestyle Chess Players Club (FCPC) members.
- ^ "Freestyle Chess' Grand Slam Tour Will Make its U.S. Debut at Wynn Las Vegas". www.freestyle-chess.com. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
- ^ "Official Rules and Regulations" (PDF). Retrieved 2025-06-03.
- ^ "3.000 Teilnehmer und Freestyle-Rating". 2025-04-08. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
- ^ "Freestyle rating" (PDF). Retrieved 2025-06-23.
- ^ "Freestyle Chess lands in Las Vegas". Freestyle Chess. Retrieved 2025-06-23.