Maximum Tension at the Grand Swiss, five share the lead before the final round

Today is the final round of the FIDE Grand Swiss 2025, one of the most important competitions of the year, giving two qualification spots for the FIDE Candidates 2026. Five share the lead before the final round, with Matthias Bluebaum, Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri, Hans Moke Niemann, Vincent Keymer all at 7,0/9. Nine more players are half a point behind – Abhimanyu Mishra, Andy Woodward, Arjun Erigaisi, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Sarin Nihal, Awonder Liang, Santosh Gujrathi Vidit, Yangyi Yu, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.

The final round starts at starting at 14:00 local time in Samarkand (UTC+5), 11:00 CEST, 05:00 ET. Live games and minute by minute coverage will be on Chessdom.com as well as on Twitter/X

It could not get more interesting! Final round of the Grand Swiss today https://t.co/HKLiU2Oz98

— Chessdom (@chessdom) September 15, 2025

Here are the key encounters of the final round:

Matthias Bluebaum vs Alireza Firouzja

Anish Giri vs Hans Moke Niemann

Arjun Erigaisi vs Vincent Keymer

Nodirbek Abdusattorov vs Awonder Liang

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Nihal Sarin

Andy Woodward vs Yu Yangyi

Vidit Santosh Gujrathi vs Abhimanyu Mishra

Grand Swiss information: FIDE Grand Swiss Chess Tournament 2025 – A Gateway to the World Championship
Grand Swiss Live: FIDE Grand Swiss Chess 2025 live / Women’s Grand Swiss Chess 2025 live
Grand Swiss Participants: Participants open / Participants women

Round 1: Multiple surprises on the board
Round 2: Maghsoodloo, Firouzja, and Demchenko lead Grand Swiss 2025
Round 3: Parham Maghsoodloo is sole leader of Grand Swiss 2025 after R3
Round 4: Parham Maghsoodloo continues to lead the Grand Swiss, 13 players share second
Round 5: Parham Maghsoodloo continues leading the Grand Swiss, as Abhimanyu Mishra stuns the World Champion
Round 6: Anish Giri leaps to shared second, eyeing Candidates 2026 spot
Round 7: Nihal Sarin and Matthias Bluebaum are co-leaders after round 7 of the FIDE Grand Swiss
Round 8: Nihal Sarin and Matthias Bluebaum lead the Grand Swiss, Keymer inches in to the top
Round 9: Matthias Bluebaum, Alireza Firouzja, Vincent Keymer, and Anish Giri in pole position for Candidates 2026
Round 10: Five share the lead before the final round of the Grand Swiss

Standings after round 10

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	GM	Bluebaum, Matthias	GER	2671	7
2	GM	Firouzja, Alireza	FRA	2754	7
3	GM	Giri, Anish	NED	2746	7
4	GM	Niemann, Hans Moke	USA	2733	7
5	GM	Keymer, Vincent	GER	2751	7
6	GM	Mishra, Abhimanyu	USA	2611	6.5
7	GM	Woodward, Andy	USA	2557	6.5
8	GM	Erigaisi, Arjun	IND	2771	6.5
9	GM	Abdusattorov, Nodirbek	UZB	2748	6.5
10	GM	Nihal, Sarin	IND	2693	6.5
11	GM	Liang, Awonder	USA	2698	6.5
12	GM	Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	IND	2712	6.5
13	GM	Yu, Yangyi	CHN	2714	6.5
14	GM	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA	2738	6.5
15	GM	Sargsyan, Shant	ARM	2653	6
16	GM	Shirov, Alexei	ESP	2616	6
17	GM	Predke, Alexandr	SRB	2609	6
18	GM	Van Foreest, Jorden	NED	2692	6
19	GM	Tabatabaei, M. Amin	IRI	2673	6
20	GM	Rapport, Richard	HUN	2711	6
21	GM	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE	2741	6
22	GM	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	FID	2742	6
23	GM	Sindarov, Javokhir	UZB	2722	6
24	GM	Sevian, Samuel	USA	2692	6
25	GM	Yakubboev, Nodirbek	UZB	2681	6
26	GM	Fedoseev, Vladimir	SLO	2731	6
27	GM	Oparin, Grigoriy	USA	2660	6
28	GM	Esipenko, Andrey	FID	2687	6
29	GM	Maghsoodloo, Parham	IRI	2692	5.5
30	GM	Erdogmus, Yagiz Kaan	TUR	2646	5.5
31	GM	Maurizzi, Marcandria	FRA	2610	5.5
32	GM	Hakobyan, Aram	ARM	2625	5.5
33	GM	Pranav, V	IND	2596	5.5
34	GM	Rodshtein, Maxim	ISR	2645	5.5
35	GM	Theodorou, Nikolas	GRE	2646	5.5
36	GM	Ivanchuk, Vasyl	UKR	2608	5.5
37	GM	Praggnanandhaa, R	IND	2785	5.5
38	GM	Lagarde, Maxime	FRA	2609	5.5
39	GM	Aditya, Mittal	IND	2589	5.5
40	GM	Narayanan, S L	IND	2591	5.5
41	GM	Saric, Ivan	CRO	2655	5.5
42	GM	Harikrishna, Pentala	IND	2704	5.5
43	GM	Dubov, Daniil	FID	2691	5.5
44	GM	Murzin, Volodar	FID	2670	5.5
45	GM	Sadhwani, Raunak	IND	2658	5.5
46	GM	Grandelius, Nils	SWE	2648	5.5
47	GM	Lu, Shanglei	CHN	2647	5.5
48	GM	Vokhidov, Shamsiddin	UZB	2645	5.5
49	GM	Puranik, Abhimanyu	IND	2640	5
50	GM	Mendonca, Leon Luke	IND	2615	5
51	GM	Xiong, Jeffery	USA	2640	5
52	GM	Anton Guijarro, David	ESP	2625	5
53	GM	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	2622	5
54	GM	Gurel, Ediz	TUR	2631	5
55	GM	Volokitin, Andrei	UKR	2628	5
56	GM	Suleymanli, Aydin	AZE	2602	5
57	GM	Moussard, Jules	FRA	2591	5
58	GM	Samunenkov, Ihor	UKR	2550	5
59	GM	Goryachkina, Aleksandra	FID	2528	5
60	GM	Mamedov, Rauf	AZE	2651	5
61	GM	Dardha, Daniel	BEL	2624	5
62	GM	Gukesh, D	IND	2767	5
63	GM	Sjugirov, Sanan	HUN	2627	5
64	GM	Vitiugov, Nikita	ENG	2666	5
65	GM	Robson, Ray	USA	2674	5
66	GM	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	POL	2661	5
67	GM	Grischuk, Alexander	FID	2657	5
68	GM	Kollars, Dmitrij	GER	2647	5
69	GM	Ivic, Velimir	SRB	2630	5
70	GM	Cheparinov, Ivan	BUL	2627	4.5
71	GM	Demchenko, Anton	SLO	2620	4.5
72	GM	Hovhannisyan, Robert	ARM	2629	4.5
73	GM	Gumularz, Szymon	POL	2590	4.5
74	GM	Henriquez Villagra, Cristobal	CHI	2594	4.5
75	GM	Bartel, Mateusz	POL	2581	4.5
76	GM	Aryan, Chopra	IND	2619	4.5
77	GM	Kuzubov, Yuriy	UKR	2600	4.5
78	GM	Donchenko, Alexander	GER	2624	4.5
79	GM	Zemlyanskii, Ivan	FID	2586	4.5
80	GM	Chigaev, Maksim	ESP	2638	4.5
81	GM	Divya, Deshmukh	IND	2478	4.5
82	GM	Aronian, Levon	USA	2744	4.5
83	GM	Shankland, Sam	USA	2670	4.5
84	GM	Svane, Frederik	GER	2643	4.5
85	GM	Artemiev, Vladislav	FID	2664	4.5
86	GM	Bjerre, Jonas Buhl	DEN	2651	4.5
87	GM	Karthikeyan, Murali	IND	2669	4.5
88	GM	Indjic, Aleksandar	SRB	2650	4.5
89	GM	Salem, A.R. Saleh	UAE	2640	4
90	GM	Svane, Rasmus	GER	2620	4
91	GM	Korobov, Anton	UKR	2616	4
92	GM	Santos Latasa, Jaime	ESP	2620	4
93	GM	Sargissian, Gabriel	ARM	2626	4
94	GM	Najer, Evgeniy	FID	2613	4
95	GM	Xu, Xiangyu	CHN	2615	4
96	GM	Matlakov, Maxim	FID	2609	4
97	GM	Daneshvar, Bardiya	IRI	2598	4
98	GM	Warmerdam, Max	NED	2591	4
99	GM	Bacrot, Etienne	FRA	2637	4
100	GM	Abdisalimov, Abdimalik	UZB	2488	4
101	GM	Madaminov, Mukhiddin	UZB	2560	4
102	GM	Martirosyan, Haik M.	ARM	2628	4
103	GM	Gelfand, Boris	ISR	2652	4
104	GM	Deac, Bogdan-Daniel	ROU	2674	4
105	GM	Amin, Bassem	EGY	2636	4
106	GM	Muradli, Mahammad	AZE	2590	4
107	GM	Hammer, Jon Ludvig	NOR	2618	3.5
108	GM	Wagner, Dennis	GER	2608	3.5
109	IM	Suyarov, Mukhammadzokhid	UZB	2482	3.5
110	GM	Eljanov, Pavel	UKR	2682	3.5
111	GM	Sarana, Alexey	SRB	2686	3.5
112	GM	Nigmatov, Ortik	UZB	2488	3
113	GM	Jobava, Baadur	GEO	2590	3
114	GM	Vakhidov, Jakhongir	UZB	2521	3
115	GM	Yuffa, Daniil	ESP	2648	3
116		Olisa, Tennyson Ewomazino	NGR	2287	0.5