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Open tournaments
More »Daily King of the Hill | 1h | 20 | |
≤1300 Blitz | 57m | 119 | |
Hourly Atomic | 57m | 61 | |
Hourly Horde | 57m | 33 | |
≤2000 Rapid | 57m | 332 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 517 | |
≤1500 SuperBlitz | 57m | 123 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 279 | |
Nimzo-Indian Defense Rapid | 1h 57m | 90 | |
≤1700 Bullet | 27m | 52 | |
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 122 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 27 |

Our August 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 18:00 UTC! Play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena.

Watch Round 6 of the Almaty Open 2025 now on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts IM Piotr Nguyen and WIM Jesse February! The joint leaders, GM Bassem Amin and GM Aditya Mittal, face each other on the top board.

Our new mobile app is officially released! It is now available for download on Google Play and the App Store. Read more about it on our blog.

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!