Sardinia World Open 2025 - Games and Results

The Sardinia World Open took place Sun 27th Apr to Sat 3rd May 2025 in OroseiI, Italy. The event was controversially won by Christopher Woojin Yoo with 7.5/9 half a point clear of Ihor Samunenkov and Lorenzo Lodici. Back in October 2024 Yoo was expelled from the US Chess Championships after he assaulted a woman following a loss of a game of chess he found distressing. Yoo was banned for a year from US chess and that ban was supposed to be extended to being a worldwide one via FIDE, the international chess federation. The best I can understand the situation is this, the US Chess Federation took many months to apply for this worldwide ban extension and it is only now under consideration by FIDE, now with Yoo now having played, this is a little awkward to say the least.