The President’s Cup of the Republic of Tajikistan 2025 will take place from November 10 to November 16 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. This tournament has 2 categories – Group A and Group B. The Group A section is a 9-round Swiss system tournament with a time control of 90 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from Tajikistan, check out The Asian Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.
The top-seeded players are IM Harikrishnan A Ra (2536), Radoslaw Psyk (2494), GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy (2491), GM Daniel Alsina Leal (2490), IM Rathanvel V S (2483), IM Andre Ventura Sousa (2444), GM Vladimir Petkov (2432), IM Al Muthaiah (2432), GM Kevin Spraggett (2426), FM Johannes Florstedt (2415), GM Luis Galego (2410), IM Bartlomiej Niedbala (2392), GM Elizbar Ubilava (2375), FM Ivan Povshednyi (2373), FM Bruno Andre Leite Martins (2369), IM S. Nitin (2337), IM Mauricio Vassallo Barroche (2326), FM Alejandro Pablo Mari (2307), IM Aaravamudhan Balaji (2305), David Nuno M E Farias (2296). Scroll down for the full participants list.
Categories: Group B
More Asian events: 62nd Indian National Championship 2025 / The Chembur Gymkhana 3rd All India FIDE Rapid Rating Open Chess Tournament 2025 / Ganja Open 2025 – Group A / Ganja Open 2025 – Group B / West Bengal State U-19 Championship 2025 – Open
President’s Cup of the Republic of Tajikistan 2025 – Group A Participants
| Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | 1 | GM | Pranav, Anand | IND | 2581 |
| 2 | 2 | GM | Bharath, Subramaniyam H | IND | 2573 |
| 3 | 3 | GM | Drygalov, Sergey | RUS | 2560 |
| 4 | 4 | GM | Sankalp, Gupta | IND | 2557 |
| 5 | 5 | IM | Makarian, Rudik | FID | 2544 |
| 6 | 6 | GM | Iskandarov, Misratdin | AZE | 2543 |
| 7 | 7 | GM | Gupta, Abhijeet | IND | 2521 |
| 8 | 8 | GM | Uskov, Artem | FID | 2513 |
| 9 | 9 | GM | Afanasiev, Nikita | RUS | 2511 |
| 10 | 10 | IM | Stribuk, Artiom | FID | 2506 |
| 11 | 11 | GM | Nikitenko, Mihail | BLR | 2503 |
| 12 | 12 | GM | Sivuk, Vitaly | SWE | 2501 |
| 13 | 13 | IM | Khubukshanov, Erdem | FID | 2492 |
| 14 | 14 | GM | Mousavi, Seyed Khalil | IRI | 2470 |
| 15 | 15 | IM | Ayush, Sharma | IND | 2468 |
| 16 | 16 | IM | Tahbaz, Arash | IRI | 2468 |
| 17 | 17 | FM | Yeletsky, Ivan | RUS | 2461 |
| 18 | 18 | IM | Saydaliev, Saidakbar | UZB | 2455 |
| 19 | 19 | IM | Shubin, Kirill | FID | 2454 |
| 20 | 20 | IM | Zverev, Lev | FID | 2453 |
| 21 | 21 | IM | Begmuratov, Khumoyun | UZB | 2448 |
| 22 | 22 | FM | Rostovtsev, Dmitry | RUS | 2446 |
| 23 | 23 | IM | Harsh, Suresh | IND | 2436 |
| 24 | 24 | IM | Audi, Ameya | IND | 2427 |
| 25 | 25 | FM | Yadegar, Radin | IRI | 2426 |
| 26 | 26 | FM | Bakhrillaev, Bakhrom | UZB | 2425 |
| 27 | 27 | IM | Manafov, Vugar | AZE | 2421 |
| 28 | 28 | FM | Volodin, Alexandr E. | FID | 2401 |
| 29 | 29 | IM | Aakash Sharadchandra, Dalvi | IND | 2398 |
| 30 | 30 | CM | Parpiev, Isaak | FID | 2394 |
| 31 | 31 | FM | Yang, Zilong | CHN | 2388 |
| 32 | 32 | IM | Abdilkhair, Abilmansur | KAZ | 2387 |
| 33 | 33 | FM | Yeganegi, Barad | IRI | 2386 |
| 34 | 34 | IM | Poormosavi, Seyed Kian | IRI | 2377 |
| 35 | 35 | IM | Sammed Jaykumar, Shete | IND | 2377 |
| 36 | 36 | FM | Usov, Aleksandr E. | RUS | 2376 |
| 37 | 37 | FM | Rohit, S | IND | 2375 |
| 38 | 38 | IM | Abdurakhmonov, Mukhammadali | UZB | 2369 |
| 39 | 39 | FM | Maslovskiy, Vladimir | FID | 2367 |
| 40 | 40 | IM | Viani, Antonio Dcunha | IND | 2366 |
| 41 | 41 | FM | Akhilbay, Imangali | KAZ | 2359 |
| 42 | 42 | FM | Moosavifar, Seyed Abolfazl | IRI | 2358 |
| 43 | 43 | FM | Omonov, Asrorjon | UZB | 2348 |
| 44 | 44 | IM | Ilkhomi, Jaloliddin | TJK | 2342 |
| 45 | 45 | FM | Sharipov, Davron | UZB | 2336 |
| 46 | 46 | Siddhanth, Poonja | IND | 2336 | |
| 47 | 47 | FM | Bukreev, Stanislav | RUS | 2333 |
| 48 | 48 | FM | Bardyk, Artem | RUS | 2332 |
| 49 | 49 | GM | Koziak, Vitali | UKR | 2331 |
| 50 | 50 | FM | Fedosov, Alexander | FID | 2323 |
| 51 | 51 | FM | Lisenkov, Svyatoslav | FID | 2322 |
| 52 | 52 | FM | Bozorov, Javohir | UZB | 2316 |
| 53 | 53 | FM | Ghayourifar, Amir | IRI | 2310 |
| 54 | 54 | FM | Putrenko, Kirill | FID | 2306 |
| 55 | 55 | CM | Salimiyan, Behzad | IRI | 2305 |
| 56 | 56 | FM | Nikookar, Mahdi | IRI | 2300 |
| 57 | 57 | FM | Chertkov, Maksim | RUS | 2297 |
| 58 | 58 | FM | Mohammadian Sechani, Arshia | IRI | 2294 |
| 59 | 59 | IM | Saravana, Krishnan P. | IND | 2293 |
| 60 | 60 | WGM | Safarli, Josefine | GER | 2292 |
| 61 | 61 | IM | Saydaliev, Akobirkhon | UZB | 2287 |
| 62 | 62 | FM | Karimov, Alisher | TJK | 2286 |
| 63 | 63 | WFM | Shubhi, Gupta | IND | 2285 |
| 64 | 64 | FM | Bizhigitov, Zhangir | KAZ | 2281 |
| 65 | 65 | FM | Abdukhakimov, Akbarali | UZB | 2277 |
| 66 | 66 | FM | Shonazarov, Orash | KAZ | 2275 |
| 67 | 67 | FM | Chakrabarty, Reyaansh | AUS | 2273 |
| 68 | 68 | CM | Azizov, Sadullo | UZB | 2266 |
| 69 | 69 | FM | Kabilov, Amin | TJK | 2262 |
| 70 | 70 | FM | Abbasi Abeluie, Mohammad Mehdi | IRI | 2255 |
| 71 | 71 | IM | Tillyaev, Ulugbek | UZB | 2249 |
| 72 | 72 | CM | Nimay, Agrawal | IND | 2244 |
| 73 | 73 | Obidov, Biloliddin | UZB | 2244 | |
| 74 | 74 | FM | Hamzaev, Shahzodbek | UZB | 2243 |
| 75 | 75 | CM | Gadzhiev, Ruslan | FID | 2242 |
| 76 | 76 | FM | Sharifov, Mekhriddin | TJK | 2233 |
| 77 | 77 | FM | Mahitosh, Dey | IND | 2228 |
| 78 | 78 | CM | Sharshenbekov, Emir | KGZ | 2217 |
| 79 | 79 | Hojjatinejad, Ilia | IRI | 2210 | |
| 80 | 80 | Nazarian, Arash | IRI | 2206 | |
| 81 | 81 | AFM | Kengurov, Yaroslav | RUS | 2205 |
| 82 | 82 | Umarov, Bekhruz | UZB | 2204 | |
| 83 | 83 | CM | Panin, Mikhail | RUS | 2203 |
| 84 | 84 | Karimov, Shakhrombek | UZB | 2202 | |
| 85 | 85 | Kurbanbaev, Zalkar | KGZ | 2201 | |
| 86 | 86 | CM | Suslov, Dmitrii | FID | 2196 |
| 87 | 87 | Kasimov, Rauf | UZB | 2195 | |
| 88 | 88 | Om, Batra | IND | 2193 | |
| 89 | 89 | CM | Plotnikov, Boris | RUS | 2170 |
| 90 | 90 | WFM | Kholyavko, Mariya | KAZ | 2168 |
| 91 | 91 | CM | Sobirov, Afruzbek | UZB | 2125 |
