The Asian Individual Chess Championship 2025 is taking place 7-15 May in Al Ain, UAE. The event features Nihal Sarin, M. Amin Tabatabaei, Nodirbek Yakubboev, Murali Karthikeyan, Shamsiddin Vokhidov, Ngoc Truong Son Nguyen, A.R. Saleh Salem, Pouya Idani, Leon Luke Mendonca, Abhimanyu Puranik, Xiangyu Xu, Bardiya Daneshvar, V Pranav, Jingyao Tin, S L Narayanan, etc. Scroll down for the full list. The top 10 in the Open section and the top 2 in the Women’s section will qualify for their respective FIDE World Cups. Live games will be daily on Chessdom. Here is the women section of the event / See more event in Asia in The Chess Calendar
Asian Chess Championship 2025 participants
1 | GM | Nihal, Sarin | IND | 2693 |
2 | GM | Tabatabaei, M. Amin | IRI | 2670 |
3 | GM | Yakubboev, Nodirbek | UZB | 2665 |
4 | GM | Karthikeyan, Murali | IND | 2658 |
5 | GM | Vokhidov, Shamsiddin | UZB | 2641 |
6 | GM | Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son | VIE | 2632 |
7 | GM | Salem, A.R. Saleh | UAE | 2631 |
8 | GM | Idani, Pouya | IRI | 2630 |
9 | GM | Mendonca, Leon Luke | IND | 2630 |
10 | GM | Puranik, Abhimanyu | IND | 2624 |
11 | GM | Xu, Xiangyu | CHN | 2623 |
12 | GM | Daneshvar, Bardiya | IRI | 2621 |
13 | GM | Pranav, V | IND | 2621 |
14 | GM | Tin, Jingyao | SGP | 2601 |
15 | GM | Narayanan, S L | IND | 2598 |
16 | GM | Paravyan, David | FID | 2596 |
17 | GM | Gupta, Abhijeet | IND | 2577 |
18 | GM | Pranesh, M | IND | 2576 |
19 | GM | Iniyan, Pa | IND | 2573 |
20 | GM | Bai, Jinshi | CHN | 2572 |
21 | GM | Ganguly, Surya Shekhar | IND | 2569 |
22 | GM | Karthik, Venkataraman | IND | 2565 |
23 | GM | Zemlyanskii, Ivan | FID | 2563 |
24 | GM | Sankalp, Gupta | IND | 2559 |
25 | GM | Vetokhin, Savva | FID | 2558 |
26 | GM | Bharath, Subramaniyam H | IND | 2556 |
27 | GM | Grebnev, Aleksey | FID | 2556 |
28 | GM | Pranav, Anand | IND | 2555 |
29 | GM | Sethuraman, S.P. | IND | 2552 |
30 | GM | Jumabayev, Rinat | KAZ | 2551 |
31 | GM | Demidov, Mikhail | FID | 2549 |
32 | GM | Aditya, Mittal | IND | 2547 |
33 | GM | Raja, Rithvik R | IND | 2545 |
34 | GM | Goryachkina, Aleksandra | FID | 2544 |
35 | IM | Makarian, Rudik | FID | 2532 |
36 | GM | Dai, Changren | CHN | 2531 |
37 | GM | Lobanov, Sergei | FID | 2527 |
38 | GM | Makhnev, Denis | KAZ | 2526 |
39 | GM | Madaminov, Mukhiddin | UZB | 2520 |
40 | GM | Adhiban, B. | IND | 2518 |
41 | GM | Movahed, Sina | IRI | 2518 |
42 | IM | Aswath, S | IND | 2515 |
43 | GM | Goganov, Aleksey | FID | 2511 |
44 | IM | Suyarov, Mukhammadzokhid | UZB | 2491 |
45 | Huang, Renjie | CHN | 2491 | |
46 | IM | Ansat, Aldiyar | KAZ | 2489 |
47 | IM | Muthaiah, Al | IND | 2487 |
48 | IM | Pang, Tao | CHN | 2485 |
49 | IM | Chen, Qi B | CHN | 2482 |
50 | IM | Urazayev, Arystanbek | KAZ | 2482 |
51 | IM | Zhao, Yuanhe | CHN | 2482 |
52 | GM | Xu, Yi | CHN | 2481 |
53 | IM | Agmanov, Zhandos | KAZ | 2480 |
54 | IM | Ayush, Sharma | IND | 2478 |
55 | GM | Megaranto, Susanto | INA | 2477 |
56 | GM | Prraneeth, Vuppala | IND | 2474 |
57 | GM | Siddharth, Jagadeesh | SGP | 2472 |
58 | IM | Zverev, Lev | FID | 2471 |
59 | IM | Ilamparthi, A R | IND | 2469 |
60 | IM | Srihari, L R | IND | 2468 |
61 | IM | Lou, Yiping | CHN | 2467 |
62 | IM | Gan-Erdene, Sugar | MGL | 2464 |
63 | IM | Pingin, Artem | FID | 2464 |
64 | IM | Wang, Shixu B | CHN | 2462 |
65 | GM | Quizon, Daniel | PHI | 2461 |
66 | IM | Begmuratov, Khumoyun | UZB | 2461 |
67 | Kong, Xiangrui | CHN | 2461 | |
68 | GM | Zhalmakhanov, Ramazan | KAZ | 2456 |
69 | IM | Mahdavi, Reza | IRI | 2445 |
70 | IM | Neelash, Saha | IND | 2445 |
71 | IM | Shubin, Kirill | FID | 2443 |
72 | Meng, Yihan | CHN | 2443 | |
73 | IM | Harshavardhan, G B | IND | 2441 |
74 | GM | Rozum, Ivan | FID | 2439 |
75 | Jiang, Haochen | CHN | 2439 | |
76 | GM | Priasmoro, Novendra | INA | 2437 |
77 | IM | Mayank, Chakraborty | IND | 2436 |
78 | IM | Amartuvshin, Ganzorig | MGL | 2429 |
79 | IM | Bersamina, Paulo | PHI | 2426 |
80 | IM | Dau, Khuong Duy | VIE | 2423 |
81 | GM | Matinian, Nikita | FID | 2420 |
82 | Cao, Qingfeng | CHN | 2420 | |
83 | FM | Chinguun, Sumiya | MGL | 2419 |
84 | IM | Sapenov, Daniyal | KAZ | 2415 |
85 | IM | Tarigan, Gilbert Elroy | INA | 2415 |
86 | FM | Tan, Jun Ying | MAS | 2414 |
87 | IM | Atakhan, Abtin | IRI | 2410 |
88 | IM | Audi, Ameya | IND | 2408 |
89 | IM | Nurgaliyev, Sauat | KAZ | 2407 |
90 | FM | Bakhrillaev, Bakhrom | UZB | 2407 |
91 | IM | Garcia, Jan Emmanuel | PHI | 2403 |
92 | IM | Manon, Reja Neer | BAN | 2403 |
93 | IM | Arfan, Aditya Bagus | INA | 2402 |
94 | Gong, Sunle | CHN | 2398 | |
95 | IM | Bai, Adelard | TPE | 2393 |
96 | IM | Liyanage, Ranindu Dilshan | SRI | 2387 |
97 | FM | Omonov, Asrorjon | UZB | 2387 |
98 | Zhu, Hengyi | CHN | 2385 | |
99 | IM | Aradhya, Garg | IND | 2383 |
100 | IM | Poormosavi, Seyed Kian | IRI | 2379 |
101 | FM | Zia, Tahsin Tajwar | BAN | 2374 |
102 | IM | Isanzhulov, Arystan | KAZ | 2372 |
103 | IM | Firman Syah, Farid | INA | 2369 |
104 | IM | Panda, Sambit | IND | 2369 |
105 | IM | Setyaki, Azarya Jodi | INA | 2364 |
106 | IM | Ritviz, Parab | IND | 2362 |
107 | IM | Abdyzhapar, Asylbek | KGZ | 2355 |
108 | IM | Belyakov, Bogdan | FID | 2355 |
109 | IM | Senthil, Maran K | IND | 2355 |
110 | IM | Jin, Yueheng | CHN | 2353 |
111 | IM | Prathamesh, Sunil Mokal | IND | 2351 |
112 | FM | Akhilbay, Imangali | KAZ | 2346 |
113 | FM | Xie, Felix | NZL | 2345 |
114 | FM | Otsuka, Shou | JPN | 2339 |
115 | IM | Akshat, Khamparia | IND | 2335 |
116 | FM | Yang, Zilong | CHN | 2326 |
117 | IM | Omar, Noaman | UAE | 2319 |
118 | IM | Aziz, Husain | QAT | 2309 |
119 | IM | Al Hosani, Omran | UAE | 2299 |
120 | GM | Ahmad, Al Khatib | JOR | 2283 |
121 | FM | Ilkhomi, Jaloliddin | TJK | 2272 |
122 | CM | Matyakubov, Miraziz | UZB | 2272 |
123 | FM | Liu, Yi | AUS | 2261 |
124 | FM | Assylov, Miras | KAZ | 2249 |
125 | FM | Sakline Mostafa, Sajid | BAN | 2234 |
126 | IM | Saravana, Krishnan P. | IND | 2231 |
127 | FM | Nikookar, Mahdi | IRI | 2202 |
128 | Vasilkov, Nikolay | FID | 2201 | |
129 | FM | Abuazizah, Raji | PLE | 2182 |
130 | Sobirov, Afruzbek | UZB | 2178 | |
131 | Anas, Khwaira | JOR | 2173 | |
132 | FM | Sodbilegt, Naranbold | MGL | 2159 |
133 | FM | Rahman, Syed Mahfuzur | BAN | 2145 |
134 | Khaled, Waleed Abdullah | YEM | 2141 | |
135 | FM | Fu, Yihe | AUS | 2123 |
136 | CM | Huh, Isaak | KOR | 2087 |
137 | FM | Muhammed, Shuaau | MDV | 2082 |
138 | Schain, Randolph | CAM | 2080 | |
139 | CM | Obidjonov, Oriyat | UZB | 2078 |
140 | CM | Mohamed, Saeed Laily | UAE | 2058 |
141 | CM | Dahal, Sushrut | NEP | 2056 |
142 | Saif, Ahmed | UAE | 2053 | |
143 | Ashikmamutov, Saidkhon | UZB | 2046 | |
144 | Xu, Pengmo | CHN | 2039 | |
145 | FM | Mirzaad, S.Wahabuddin | AFG | 2035 |
146 | FM | Munkhbayar, Gijir | MGL | 2018 |
147 | CM | Kodithuwakku, K K Dinujaya | SRI | 2011 |
148 | Baturin-Vinogradov, Miroslav | FID | 2010 | |
149 | Fedorov, Grigory | FID | 2008 | |
150 | Yakimenko, Alexander A. | FID | 2000 | |
151 | CM | Hsu, Hsuan-Ming | TPE | 1975 |
152 | Tenezaca, Cristian | GUM | 1942 | |
153 | FM | Fancy, Stuart | PNG | 1937 |
154 | CM | Al Kathiri, Mana | OMA | 1880 |
155 | Moughames, Ronald | LBN | 1855 | |
156 | Rashid, Husain Alhammadi | UAE | 1853 | |
157 | Mujahid, Bin Yazeed | MDV | 1809 | |
158 | Abdulazizov, Asilbek | UZB | 1759 |
