Freestyle Chess Finals 2025
The 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour concludes in Cape Town, South Africa, from December 5 to 12, 2025. This final event offers a prize pool of $660,000 USD and features a Chess960 format, where eight of the best placed participants in the Freestyle Chess Tour will battle for the Cape Town title.
The lineup is headed by World N1 Magnus Carlsen and his main opposition comes from the number 3 in the Freestyle rating list Fabiano Caruana and the Wissenhaus winner Vincent Keymer.
Despite his mysterious disappearance during the Paris Freestyle leg Hans Niemann is one more time among the players. Regarding his participation, Niemann himself stated, “Bobby Fischer would be happy to see chess finally come back to it’s artistic and creative roots. See you in Cape Town!”
Levon Aronian, winner of Freestyle Las Vegas, is also among the participants. The rest of the field is completed by Arjun Erigaisi, Parham Maghsoodloo, and Javokhir Sindarov
Live games from Freestyle Chess Finals will be daily on Chessdom