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Game 1: Ju Wenjun vs Tan Zhongyi, FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025
Open tournaments
More »Rapid Shield | 8h | 818 | |
Hourly King of the Hill | 57m | 41 | |
Hourly HyperBullet | 27m | 99 | |
Hourly Atomic | 27m | 87 | |
≤1700 Blitz | 57m | 189 | |
Hourly Horde | 57m | 36 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 488 | |
≤2000 SuperBlitz | 57m | 250 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 280 | |
≤1500 Rapid | 57m | 156 | |
≤1300 Bullet | 27m | 29 | |
Daily Bullet | 1h | 483 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m |

See what our developers and community contributors have been working on over the past month in our updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum topic.

Join us now on YouTube or Twitch with today's commentators GM Rasmus Svane and GM Toms Kantāns for Game 6 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025!

GM Ju Wenjun won a one-sided Game 5 of the Women's World Championship 2025 against GM Tan Zhongyi to take the match lead with 3-2! Read our recap blog and replay the game with annotations by WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea.

Join us now on YouTube or Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February & GM Toms Kantāns, and today's guest GM Felix Blohberger, for Game 5 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025!


Join us now on YouTube or Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February and GM Toms Kantāns for Game 4 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025!

GM Ju Wenjun bounced back after the first rest day with a win over GM Tan Zhongyi to level the score! We summarised what happened in our recap blog, again with annotations by WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea.