Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Round 5 of the Almaty Open 2025 with our hosts GM Mitrabha Guha and WIM Jesse February! GM Aditya Mittal, who qualified through Lichess, is the sole leader and plays GM S. L. Narayanan.

Watch Round 4 of the Almaty Open 2025 on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts GM Mitrabha Guha and WIM Jesse February! Top seed GM Bassem Amin plays current joint leader IM S Rohith Krishna and GM Aram Hakobyan faces GM Mihail Nikitenko, among others.

Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Round 3 of the Almaty Open 2025 with our hosts IM Laura Unuk and WIM Jesse February!

Watch Round 2 of the Almaty Open 2025 now on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts IM Laura Unuk and WIM Jesse February!

Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamer Arenas on 11 August at 15:00 UTC and 8 September at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4! If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, see here.

Join us now on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February and IM Laura Unuk for the first round of the Almaty Open 2025! GMs Bassem Amin, Aram Hakobyan, Maxim Matlakov, Brandon Jacobson and many others compete for the total prize fund of $100,000.

Your donations and support have allowed us to do many awesome things this half-year that we hope you enjoy! We will continue to work hard to give you the best free, libre, and open-source chess experience. Read our Half-Year Update 2025 to see how we have changed for the better.