Uzchess Cup 2025 – participants and information
A new super-tournament for your chess calendar – the Uzchess Cup second edition will be a 10 player round robin with 2726 ELO average (according to the May rating list). Top seeded in the Masters section is Arjun Erigaisi, who will be coming from Delhi Open and will be accompanied by his fellow countrymen Pragg, Aravindh, and Harikrishna. The local heroes on the board will be Abdusattorov, Sindarov, Yakubboev, and Vokhidov. To avoid making it an India vs Uzbekistan match, two more players join the field – Nepomniachtchi and Rapport.
Uzchess Cup 2025 takes place 18-28 June in Tashkent. There will be a total of three 10 player round robin tournaments. Live games will be daily on Chessdom, while additional news can be found in the Chessdom Newsletter – you can sign up for free in the form below.
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Arjun Erigaisi (India) 2782
Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan) 2771
R Praggnanandhaa (India) 2758
Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE) 2757
Chithambaram Vr. Aravindh (India) 2749
Richard Rapport (Hungary) 2722
Pentala Harikrishna (India) 2707
Javokhir Sindarov (Uzbekistan) 2706
Nodirbek Yakubboev (Uzbekistan) 2665
Shamsiddin Vokhidov (Uzbekistan) 2641
The Uzchess 2025 Challengers and Uzchess 2025 Futures round robins players lists are not available yet, but names with high certainty are Aram Hakobyan (Armenia) 2620, Nijat Abasov (Azerbaijan) 2620, Nikolas Theodorou (Greece) 2611, Saparmyrat Atabayev (Turkmenistan) 2515, Boris Chatalbashev (Denmark) 2502.