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Event Details

Jul 13, 2025 - Jul 26, 2025

12:00 pm CDT - 6:00 pm CDT

1034 S Brentwood Blvd, Richmond Heights, MO 63117

The Saint Louis Chess Club is proud to again host the U.S. Senior Championship, U.S. Junior Championship, and U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship for 2025. All three tournaments are by invitation-only to showcase America’s past and upcoming chess phenoms, for newly increased prize funds across all three events! For the Senior Championship the purse is $100,000; for the Juniors Championship, $75,000; and for the Girls Championship, $50,000 in total prizes.

Follow all the action as it happens by watching our professional commentary team of Grandmasters Yasser Seirawan and Cristian Chirila and International Master Nazi Paikidze on the Saint Louis Chess Club’s Youtube and Twitch channels.

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REGULATIONS

*The rating for players is based on the April 2025 US Chess Invitational Rating lists, part of the US Chess Invitational Event Regulations which were used to determine the invitations for these events, https://new.uschess.org/invitational-information.

2025 US Senior Championship Pairings



Board White Rating Rating Black
1 GM Kaidanov, Gregory 2505 vs 2473 GM Benjamin, Joel
2 GM Dlugy, Maxim 2514 vs 2586 GM Akopian, Vladimir
3 GM Shabalov, Alexander 2478 vs 2571 GM Christiansen, Larry
4 IM Taylor, Timothy 2147 vs 2541 GM Goldin, Alexander
5 GM Fishbein, Alexander 2368 vs 2485 GM Novikov, Igor



Board White Rating Rating Black
1 GM Benjamin, Joel 2473 vs 2485 GM Novikov, Igor
2 GM Goldin, Alexander 2541 vs 2368 GM Fishbein, Alexander
3 GM Christiansen, Larry 2571 vs 2147 IM Taylor, Timothy
4 GM Akopian, Vladimir 2586 vs 2478 GM Shabalov, Alexander
5 GM Kaidanov, Gregory 2505 vs 2514 GM Dlugy, Maxim


📄 Download US Senior Championship
Rounds 1-9 Detailed Pairings (PDF)

2025 US Junior Championship Pairings



Board White Rating Rating Black
1 IM Park, Evan 2429 vs 2611 GM Mishra, Abhimanyu
2 GM Ghazarian, Kirk 2511 vs 2498 GM Hardaway, Brewington
3 IM Sethuraman, Sandeep 2417 vs 2567 GM Woodward, Andy
4 IM Rorrer, Grayson 2428 vs 2459 IM Chasin, Nico
5 FM Deviprasath, Sharvesh 2434 vs 2529 IM Wang, Justin



Board White Rating Rating Black
1 GM Mishra, Abhimanyu 2611 vs 2529 IM Wang, Justin
2 IM Chasin, Nico 2459 vs 2434 FM Deviprasath, Sharvesh
3 GM Woodward, Andy 2567 vs 2428 IM Rorrer, Grayson
4 GM Hardaway, Brewington 2498 vs 2417 IM Sethuraman, Sandeep
5 IM Park, Evan 2429 vs 2511 GM Ghazarian, Kirk


📄 Download US Junior Championship
Rounds 1-9 Detailed Pairings (PDF)

2025 US Junior Girls Championship



Board White Rating Rating Black
1 WGM Wu, Rochelle 2213 vs 2371 WGM Tang, Zoey
2 FM Atwell, Rose 2271 vs 2172 WIM Gaw, Chloe
3 FM Yan, Ruiyang 2209 vs 2031 WFM Qiu, Laurie
4 FM Paragua, Megan Althea 2249 vs 2162 WFM Li, Rachael
5 Su, Jasmine Zhixin 2189 vs 2271 WIM Mou, Iris



Board White Rating Rating Black
1 WGM Tang, Zoey 2371 vs 2271 WIM Mou, Iris
2 WFM Li, Rachael 2162 vs 2189 Su, Jasmine Zhixin
3 WFM Qiu, Laurie 2031 vs 2249 FM Paragua, Megan Althea
4 WIM Gaw, Chloe 2172 vs 2209 FM Yan, Ruiyang
5 WGM Wu, Rochelle 2213 vs 2271 FM Atwell, Rose


📄 Download US Junior Girls Championship
Rounds 1-9 Detailed Pairings (PDF)

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