The 87th edition of the “Wimbledon of Chess” takes place from 18 January to 2 February in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. The Tata Steel Chess 2025 is played with Masters and Challengers sections, and each is a 14-player round-robin tournament with top players.
The field of the Masters tournament is headlined by World #2 GM Fabiano Caruana (USA, 2803), and includes reigning World Chess Campion GM Dommaraju Gukesh (India, 2777), World #4 GM Arjun Erigaisi (India, 2801), World #6 GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan, 2768), World #9 GM Wei Yi (China, 2751), World #13 GM Praggnanandhaa R (India, 2741), World #20 GM Vincent Keymer (Germany, 2733), World #22 GM Anish Giri (Netherlands, 2731), World #26 GM Vladimir Fedoseev (Slovenia, 2717), World #36 GM Pentala Harikrishna (India, 2695), World #46 GM Jorden Van Foreest (Netherlands, 2680), World #47 GM Alexey Sarana (Serbia, 2677), World #82 GM Max Warmerdam (Netherlands, 2646), and World #95 GM Leon Luke Mendonca (India, 2639).
The Tata Steel Challengers 2025 is played simultaneously, with the following battlefield: GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen (Czech Republic, 2668), GM Frederik Svane (Germany, 2664), GM Nodirbek Yakubboev (Uzbekistan, 2659), GM Ediz Gurel (Turkey, 2624), GM Aydin Suleymanli (Azerbaijan, 2623), GM Erwin L’Ami (Netherlands, 2614), GM Benjamin Bok (Netherlands, 2583), GM Kazybek Nogerbek (Kazakhstan, 2514), IM Divya Deshmukh (India, 2490), GM Vaishali R (India, 2476), IM Arthur Pijpers (Netherlands, 2474), IM Faustino Oro (Argentina, 2447), IM Lu Miaoyi (China, 2429), and IM Irina Bulmaga (Romania, 2386).
