The FIDE Circuit is the circuit of top tournaments around the world unified according to the criteria described below.
- FIDE-rated individual over-the-board standard-play tournaments
- FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2025, regardless of their dates
- Continental over-the-board Rapid and Blitz Championships 2025
- Other over-the-board FIDE-rated Rapid & Blitz tournaments
Please read full Regulations
[Updated on 06 May 2025]
The list includes past and future eligible tournaments. It is not final and is constantly updated. All future date tournaments are tentative, subject to meeting eligibility criteria upon receiving official tournament report.
JANUARY
- Tata Steel Chess 2025 – Masters (Wijk can Zee, The Netherlands, January 17 – February 02, 2025)
- Tata Steel Chess 2025 – Challengers (Wijk can Zee, The Netherlands, January 17 – February 02, 2025)
FEBRUARY
- Azerbaijan Men’s Championship 2025 (Baku, Azerbaijan, February 01 – 15, 2025)
- 2nd International Chess Tournament “Al-Beruniy” (Tashkent, Uzbekistan, February 2 – 12, 2025)
- Djerba International Chess Festival (Masters) (Djerba, Tunisia, February 15 – 23, 2025)
- Prague International Chess Festival 2025 Masters (Prague, The Czech Republic, February 25 – March 07, 2025)
- Prague International Chess Festival 2025 Challengers (Prague, The Czech Republic, February 25 – March 07, 2025)
- FIDE World Junior Chess Championship 2025 (Petrovac, Montenegro, February 25 – March 07, 2025)
- Aeroflot Open 2025 (Moscow, Russia, February 28 – March 07, 2025)
MARCH
- European Individual Chess Championship 2025* (Eforie-Nord, Romania, March 14 – 27, 2025)
- 18th International chess tournament “Memorial of Georgy Agzamov, the first grandmaster of Uzbekistan” (Tashkent, Uzbekistan, March 19 – 30, 2025)
APRIL
- Reykjavik Open 2025 (Reykjavik, Iceland, April 09 – 15, 2025)
- IX Open Internacional Semana Santa San Vicente del Raspeig Costa Blanca 2025 A (Alicante, Espana, April 16 – 21, 2025)
- Grenke Chess Open 2025 (Karlsruhe, Germany, April 17 – 21, 2025)
- IV OPEN CHESS MENORCA GRUPO A* (Menorca, Spain, April 22 – 27, 2025)
- Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland (Warsaw, Poland, April 24 – May 1)
- Sardinia World Chess Festival 2025 (Sardinia, Italy, April 26 – May 03, 2025)
- Baku Open 2025 (Baku, Azerbaijan, April 27 – May 06, 2025)
- Ljubljana Chess Festival (Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 28 – May 04, 2025)
MAY
- Superbet Chess Classic Romania (Bucharest, Romania, May 5 – 17, 2025)
- Asian Individual Men’s Chess Championship 2025 (May 07- – 15, 2025, Al Ain, UAE)
- German Individual Championship* (Munich, Germany, May 15 – 23, 2025)
- Sharjah Masters 2025* (Sharjah, UAE, May 16 – 26, 2025)
- 30th Tepe Sigeman Chess Tournament (Malmo, Norway, May 20 – 26, 2025)
- Norway Chess 2025 (Stavanger, Norway, May 26 – June 06, 2025)
- Stepan Avagyan Memorial 2025 (Jermuk, Armenia, May 28 – June 06, 2025)
- Campeonato Continental Absolute de Ajedrez de las Americas 2025 (Natal, Brasil, May 2025)
JUNE
- Delhi International Open 2025 (New Delhi, India, June 07 – 14, 2025)
- UzChess Cup 2025 (Tashkent, Uzbekistan, June 18 – 28, 2025)
- Aktobe Open 2025 (Aktobe, Kazakhstan, June 21 – July 01, 2025)
- SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia (Zagreb, Croatia, June 30 – July 7, 2025)
JULY
- Jihlava Open* (Jihlav, Czech Republic, July 07 – 13)
- Dole Open (Aix-en-Provence, France, July 10 – 27, 2025)
- Biel International Chess Festival – Open (Biel, Switzerland, July 12 – 25, 2025)
- Biel International Chess Festival – Masters (Biel, Switzerland, July 12 – 25, 2025)
- Biel International Chess Festival – Challengers (Biel, Switzerland, July 12 – 25, 2025)
- 22th Karpov International Chess Tournament (Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, July, 14 – 26, 2025)
- Oskemen Open 2025 (Oskemen, Kazakhstan, July 20 – 30, 2025)
AUGUST
- Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025 (Chennai, India, August, 06-15, 2025)
- Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz (Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, August 9 – 16, 2025)
- 61st International Akiba Rubinstein Chess Festival – GM Round-Robin Tournament (Polanica-Zdroj, Poland, August, 15-24, 2025)
- Sinquefield Cup (Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, August 16 – 29, 2025)
- Maia Chess Open* (Maia, Portugal, August 22 – 30, 2025)
- 1st FUJAIRAH Global Chess Championship* (Fujairah, UAE, August 24 – September 09, 2025)
OCTOBER
- Villa Martelli* (Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 08 – 17, 2025)
NOVEMBER
- 2025 US Masters (Charlotte, USA, November 26 – 30, 2025)
* – provisional