2025 XTX Markets London Chess Classic Super Rapidplay LIVE

The XTX Markets London Chess Classic (LCC) returns to the capital between 26th November and 7th December 2025. Following GM Gawain Jones’s victory in 2024, the event will once again be held largely at the iconic Emirates Stadium, switching to London Novotel West in Hammersmith to avoid clashes with Arsenal home matches.

The XTX Markets London Chess Classic is traditionally among the Top Chess Tournaments of The Chess Calendar.

The Super Rapidplay is a 10-round Swiss system tournament with a time control of 15 min + 10 sec. The top-seeded players in Super Rapidplay are GM Alireza Firouzja (2754), GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2717), GM Leinier Dominguez Perez (2703), GM Luke J McShane (2668), GM Samuel L Shankland (2634), GM Michael Adams (2629), GM Gawain Maroroa Jones (2619), GM Nikita Vitiugov (2609), GM Abhimanyu Mishra (2600), GM Pavel Eljanov (2594), GM Nikolas Theodorou (2581), GM Rinat Jumabayev (2543), GM Ameet K Ghasi (2497), GM Daniil Yuffa (2487), GM Stephen J Gordon (2474), GM Alexander Kovchan (2463), IM Atulya Shetty (2455), GM P Iniyan (2450), IM Eytan Rozen (2449), GM Victor Mikhalevski (2435). You can scroll down for the full participants list.

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2025 XTX Markets London Chess Classic Super Rapidplay Participants

No.		Name	Rtg
1	GM	Firouzja, Alireza	2754
2	GM	Abdusattorov, Nodirbek	2717
3	GM	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	2703
4	GM	Mcshane, Luke J	2668
5	GM	Shankland, Samuel L	2634
6	GM	Adams, Michael	2629
7	GM	Maroroa Jones, Gawain	2619
8	GM	Vitiugov, Nikita	2609
9	GM	Mishra, Abhimanyu	2600
10	GM	Eljanov, Pavel	2594
11	GM	Theodorou, Nikolas	2581
12	GM	Jumabayev, Rinat	2543
13	GM	Ghasi, Ameet K	2497
14	GM	Yuffa, Daniil	2487
15	GM	Gordon, Stephen J	2474
16	GM	Kovchan, Alexander	2463
17	IM	Shetty, Atulya	2455
18	GM	Iniyan, P	2450
19	IM	Rozen, Eytan	2449
20	GM	Mikhalevski, Victor	2435
21	IM	Aghayev, Miragha	2424
22	GM	Pranav, Anand	2421
23	IM	Aizenberg, Benny	2418
24	IM	Rendle, Thomas E	2415
25	IM	Tulchynskyi, Feliks	2409
26	GM	Emms, John M	2407
27	IM	Bazakutsa, Svyatoslav	2401
28	GM	Gasanov, Eldar	2397
29	GM	Royal, Shreyas	2393
30	IM	Roebers, Eline	2392
31	FM	Badacsonyi, Stanley	2390
32	IM	Bulmaga, Irina	2388
33	IM	Wang, Hao	2382
34		Nainys, Zanas	2372
35	GM	Wadsworth, Matthew J	2369
36	IM	Balaji, Aaravamudhan	2356
37	IM	Timmermans, Mark	2355
38	IM	Camacho Collados, Jose	2347
39	IM	Roberson, Peter T	2342
40	IM	Tayar, Jonathan	2337
41	FM	Haydon, David L	2329
42	IM	Czopor, Maciej	2327
43	IM	Tica, Sven	2327
44		Cancedda-Dupuis, Livio	2319
45	FM	Porras Mateo, Felipe	2298
46	IM	Hunt, Harriet V	2297
47	IM	Grutter, Tim	2291
48	IM	Mcphillips, Joseph	2288
49	FM	Kalavannan, Koby	2287
50	IM	Willow, Jonah B	2273
51	IM	Buckley, Graeme N	2269
52	IM	Lohia, Sohum	2257
53	FM	Ciolek, Andreas	2253
54	IM	Mahadevan, Siva	2241
55	CM	Chopra, Manmay	2234
56		Stephan, Axel	2226
57	IM	Gaal, Zsoka	2220
58	IM	Maier, Christian	2209
59	FM	Tsakiris, Haralambos	2206
60	IM	Golding, Alex	2205
61	FM	Dishman, Stephen	2203
62	FM	Noy, Eyal	2190
63	WGM	Mirzoeva, Elmira	2175
64	FM	Stoyanov, Viktor	2174
65		Verbytski, Oleg	2172
66		Bhattacharjee, Sourav	2167
67	IM	Zapolskis, Antanas	2162
68		Hanache, Kai	2161
69	IM	Sammed Jaykumar, Shete	2151
70		Vaidyanathan, Adithya	2151
71	FM	Fernandez, Michael H	2146
72		Shafi, Declan	2145
73	FM	Banerjee, Supratit	2144
74	CM	Josse, Mark	2135
75		Bonn, Thomas B	2134
76		Lucchi, Lorenzo	2115
77		Lishoy Gengis Paratazham, Dildarav	2109
78	FM	Hobson, Kenneth	2107
79	CM	Dasgupta, Avyukt	2104
80		Gurevich, Artem	2099
81	FM	Richardson, John R	2093
82	FM	Southcott-Moyers, Indy	2086
83		Walker, Samuel A	2074
84		Yu, Rock	2074
85		Larchikov, Maksym	2071
86	CM	Lau, Luke	2069
87	CM	Finn, Peter	2059
88	CM	Quilter, Thomas A	2057
89		Bradley, Alan	2049
90	WFM	Hng, Mei-En Emmanuelle	2048
91	NM	Onslow, Alfie	2040
92		Keerthi Kumar, Advait	2035
93	FM	Eames, Robert S	2033
94	CM	Willmoth, Robert F	2033
95		Batchelor, Mark	2029
96		Van Pel, Gerben	2029
97		Zhang, Junyi	2028
98		Han, Qixiang	2025
99		Lebedev, Lion	2023
100		Burbidge, Duncan R	2022
101	WIM	Sivanandan, Bodhana	2020
102		Kovalskyi, Roman	2016
103		Manole, Stefan	2015
104		Mclachlan, Matthew	2011
105		Nicholas, Koichi B	2011
106		White, Stuart A	2008
107	CM	Yoon, Jacob D	2006
108	CM	Murawski, Jan	2003
109	CM	Sadeghi, Hassan Roger	2003
110		Vashisht-Pigem, Raman	2000
111		Golding, James	1998
112		Brett, Andrew R	1994
113		Stojanas, Justinas	1994
114	FM	Smith, Andrew P	1993
115		Allorant, Adrien	1991
116		Vaddadi, Seshagiri	1990
117	CM	Bryant, Harry	1987
118		Doran, Chris	1982
119		Koschetzki, Christian	1980
120		Silva, Lourenco Santa Clara	1980
121		Terler, Bohdan	1978
122		Heaton, Paul	1977
123		Lee, Yuk Hei	1976
124		Choong, Han-Sen	1965
125		Shaw, Dashiell L	1964
126		Bharat Kumar, Balahari	1961
127		Amoako, Selikem Pj	1960
128		Smith, Ryan M	1957
129		Patel, Zain	1956
130	CM	Santhosh, Abhyuday	1953
131		Vishwanath Natraj, Ganesh	1950
132		Alizada, Eldar A	1943
133		Sommerbauer-Cornell, Ben	1939
134		Burke, John	1933
135	CM	Zhao, George	1930
136		Mokhber-Garcia, Sebastian	1927
137		Bansal, Saahil	1924
138		Dupuis, Denis K	1924
139		Jain, Gautam R	1923
140	CM	Blake, J Morgan	1920
141		Li, Harvey	1919
142		Quillaud, Maxime	1916
143		Rizvi, Nasir	1915
144		Sagues, Vincent	1915
145	FM	Sasitharan, Abhiram	1912
146		Clery, Liam	1908
147		Mccarthy, Kevin C	1908
148		Morea, Georgiana-Steluta	1907
149		Marin Aso, Jose Luis	1902
150		Salman, Haytham	1901
151	WGM	Jackson, Sheila	1900
152		Watson, Jacob	1898
153		Bird, Joel	1892
154		Kuhendiran, Tharshan	1891
155		Sisupalan, Beni	1891
156		Ortiz Sanchez, Luis	1890
157		Sanitt, Ethan	1888
158		Timmermans, Adri	1888
159		Kaufman, Harris	1881
160		Dishman, Matthew	1879
161		Bevis, Noah	1876
162		Benjamin, Martin J	1875
163		Lin, William	1875
164		Narang, Ishaan	1869
165	WFM	Hng, Mei-Xian Eunice	1867
166		Kennedy, Aden	1857
167		Sandhu, Jai	1853
168		Seet, Joshua	1853
169		Rich, Aaron	1851
170		Pires, Jonathan	1850
171		Hu, Junyan	1848
172	WIM	Regan, Natasha K	1847
173		Rubeck, Jonathan	1843
174		Pereslavtsev, Alexandr	1841
175		Hayler, Andrew	1837
176		Sherwood, Gabriel	1835
177		Cawdery, John	1833
178		Anjulan, Ashwin	1832
179		Lesniowski, Paul A	1829
180		Young, Daniel J	1828
181		Mittal, Aditya	1827
182		Acharya, Nikesh	1822
183		Basson, Heinrich	1819
184		Ward, Cian	1818
185		Lukasiewicz, Aleksander	1813
186		Rahman, K Azizur	1813
187		Hedger, Alec	1812
188		Duke, Dillan	1811
189		Tivillier, Jacques	1807
190		Grose, Kameron	1803
191		Chandrashekhar, Druha	1802
192		Jones, Chris S	1799
193		Vliek, Dick	1799
194		Figueroa, Edison	1797
195		Shevchuk, Natalia	1793
196		Ronald, Ted	1790
197		Kamath, Raghu	1788
198		Toma, Florin	1786
199		Mortazavi, Sami	1785
200		Macneil, Elliott Cm	1783
201		Han, Qixuan	1775
202		Vergeiner, Emil	1769
203		Sahoo, Shivam	1767
204		Udovenko, Daniel Alexander	1765
205		Buratti, Eliott	1763
206		Brennan, Henry	1760
207		Islam, Mohammed	1758
208		Dhingra, Kanvansh	1754
209		Chauhan, Anurag Singh	1749
210		Paulins, Michael	1749
211		Boganadham, Ved Sudeep	1748
212		Vaidyanathan, Sathya	1747
213		Adams, Robert	1741
214		Barbier-Ramaiah, Rohan Theo	1741
215		Degrassi, Alice	1741
216		Puig-Souto, Luca	1741
217		Breton, Martin	1740
218		Fairhurst, Frederick	1738
219		Kuchibhatla, Ishaan Sai	1738
220		Ivanov, Elizabeth	1727
221		Hall, Seb	1721
222		Rahlf, Jan	1721
223		Bakhtiyorova, Nodirabegim	1720
224		Ding, Yiwen	1720
225		Funk, Alexander	1716
226		Razhnou, Lev	1708
227		Mclean, Rory R	1707
228		Sangster, Thomas	1707
229		Paranjpe, Nachiket	1706
230		Taylor, Matthew	1700
231		Goodlad, Daniel	1695
232		Mayers, Tom	1686
233		Shamsi Meimandi, Sepanta	1679
234		Flowers, James Christopher	1672
235		Vaidya, Raghav	1664
236		Ding, Yicheng	1663
237		Sturt, Charles A	1663
238		Agrawal, Archi	1660
239		Ketheeswaran, Vishu	1660
240		Mann, Jacob	1659
241		Bakhtiyorov, Komronbek	1657
242		Vorozhtsov, Ilya	1650
243		Sriram, Gautam	1642
244		Singha, Swati	1637
245		Chan, Desmond	1635
246		Li, Alice	1634
247		Tuncer, Coskun	1633
248		V, Krish	1627
249		Karia, Kamlesh	1625
250		Bhaduri, Aviraj	1618
251		Delacour, Jacob	1618
252		Mehta, Sophie	1614
253		Rozmus, Oliver	1613
254		Sanderson, Scarlett	1613
255		Witte, Phoebe	1613
256		Skurko, Victor	1599
257		Verdi, Arjan	1599
258		Klek, Mikolaj	1598
259		Zhestilevskii, Stepan	1595
260		Rowland, Alex	1588
261		Hammett, Scott	1586
262		Duyar, Mehmet Jerfi	1581
263		Tso, Chi Wai	1573
264		Nguyen, Mikey	1569
265		Ewart, Thomas	1567
266		Flavell, Archie	1555
267		De Boer, Lara	1551
268		Koebis, Lukas	1547
269		Oudet, Charlotte	1541
270		De Boer, Willem	1540
271		Hadjivasiliou, Adamos	1536
272		Sengupta, Sohana	1536
273		Alex, Kuffour Boateng	1534
274		Ronald, Ken	1525
275		Cawdery, Mary	1515
276		Ziu, Naman	1512
277		Williams, Joseph	1507
278		Wang, Noah-Yinuo	1503
279		Konig, Jon	1493
280		Razhnova, Aryna	1482
281		Zhuravlev, Andrei	1472
282		Krishna, Medha	1470
283		Katiyar, Trisha	1464
284		Nguyen, Max	1443
285		Gampa, Dyuthi Sri	1441
286		Ding, Yihua	1434
287		Kerobyan, Mark	1433
288		Ding, Jie	1431
289		Yang, Rachel	1431
290		Patel, Parisa	1430
291		Mehta, Hatle	1426
292		Rajaram, Dilip	1412
293		Elischberger-Ong, Marcus	1410
294		Tang, Dominic	1403
295		Razhnova, Alena	1402
296		Aiyer, Ishan	1381
297		Eastham, Luna	1375
298		Shunmugam, Saikrishna	1268
299		Jones, Melanie	1101
300		Chandler, John	1082
301		Nascu, Ioan	991
302		Ewart, Sarah	957
303		Grygorenko, Philip	900
304		Coleman, Brian	878
305		Surisetty, Hiresh	876
306		Agrawal, Kiiaan	854
307		Leo, Richard	746
308		Chalmers, Hugh	0
309		Pozza, Ronaldo	0