Big Rook Chess Festival 2025 is taking place 7-12 May in Bangkok, Thailand. The main open is a 9 rounds classical Swiss with GM Darwin Laylo as top seeded.
The Big Rook Chess Festival 2025 contains also a rapid event on May 11, a blitz event on May 10, and multiple youth events.
Big Rook Chess Festival 2025 participants
| 1 | GM | Laylo, Darwin | PHI | 2390 |
| 2 | FM | Chernyavsky, Alexander | FID | 2336 |
| 3 | IM | Li, Bo | CHN | 2249 |
| 4 | Batashevs, Arsens | LAT | 2195 | |
| 5 | FM | Yang, Ching Wei Austin | TPE | 2176 |
| 6 | FM | Habla, Jony | PHI | 2174 |
| 7 | Caparino, Diego Abraham | PHI | 2145 | |
| 8 | Salvador, Louie | PHI | 2121 | |
| 9 | Wen, Gehua | CHN | 2115 | |
| 10 | FM | Castellano, Christopher | PHI | 2107 |
| 11 | CM | Yun, Hungi | KOR | 2090 |
| 12 | FM | Wiwatanadate, Poompong | THA | 2057 |
| 13 | Yu, Shi | CHN | 2052 | |
| 14 | FM | Ko Ko Ohn, | MYA | 2029 |
| 15 | Portugalera, Ric | PHI | 2028 | |
| 16 | FM | Villanueva, Nelson | PHI | 2021 |
| 17 | CM | Looi, Xin Hao | MAS | 2014 |
| 18 | Teo, Hong Ming | SGP | 1989 | |
| 19 | Buakird, Apichit | THA | 1988 | |
| 20 | WCM | Sreekarthika, Velmurugan | SGP | 1948 |
| 21 | Bonnet, Gabriel Misa Jean | SGP | 1921 | |
| 22 | Rohland, Michael Karl | CAN | 1902 | |
| 23 | Umer S.M, | IND | 1901 | |
| 24 | Kim, Taewoo A | KOR | 1895 | |
| 25 | Lauron, Paul John | PHI | 1891 | |
| 26 | Keok, Kai En | MAS | 1890 | |
| 27 | Gnanasekar, Jai Adithya | SGP | 1882 | |
| 28 | Panteleev, Mikhail A | FID | 1872 | |
| 29 | Wongsawan, Thoetsak | THA | 1864 | |
| 30 | Lau, Sau Ching | MAS | 1861 | |
| 31 | Xie, Chujun | CHN | 1848 | |
| 32 | Vijay Chauhan, | IND | 1843 | |
| 33 | Bhavanya Panchumarthi, | IND | 1839 | |
| 34 | Nguyen, Truong An Khang | VIE | 1835 | |
| 35 | Dayal, Samar | ENG | 1834 | |
| 36 | Santiaguel, Jerico M. | PHI | 1832 | |
| 37 | Kim, Yegeon | KOR | 1826 | |
| 38 | Voronin, Alexander | FID | 1781 | |
| 39 | Ji, Mingxuan | CHN | 1768 | |
| 40 | WCM | Wang, Mi | TPE | 1765 |
| 41 | Lim, Kian Guan | MAS | 1758 | |
| 42 | Frost, Peter | AUS | 1741 | |
| 43 | Bumbak, Jacob | AUS | 1719 | |
| 44 | Pi, Chongxi | CHN | 1716 | |
| 45 | Kaewwattha, Natrada | THA | 1705 | |
| 46 | Wu, Sinian | CHN | 1684 | |
| 47 | Ayaan Mukherjee, | IND | 1676 | |
| 48 | Xia, Miaoyan | CHN | 1676 | |
| 49 | Wang, Zi-Jie | TPE | 1645 | |
| 50 | Surapongprapa, Rabil | THA | 1639 | |
| 51 | Rodraksa, Traya | THA | 1607 | |
| 52 | Nguyen, Hoang Minh | VIE | 1596 | |
| 53 | Chen, Pin-Jui | TPE | 1553 | |
| 54 | Chao, Andrew Tzu Chun | TPE | 1531 | |
| 55 | Nakthip, Nakorn | THA | 1516 | |
| 56 | Chao, Tzu-Chi Angie | TPE | 1463 | |
| 57 | Soontornkamjohnphanit, Theainlawid | THA | 0 |
