{"id":44945,"date":"2026-04-06T20:15:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/?p=44945"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:17:22","slug":"vincent-keymer-wins-freestyle-chess-open-secures-spot-in-fide-freestyle-chess-world-championship-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/vincent-keymer-wins-freestyle-chess-open-secures-spot-in-fide-freestyle-chess-world-championship-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent Keymer wins Freestyle Chess Open, secures spot in FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Vincent Keymer<\/strong>\u00a0has won the Freestyle Chess Open A at the grenke Chess Festival in Karlsruhe. The German grandmaster finished tied on points with\u00a0Maxime\u00a0Vachier-Lagrave<\/strong>\u00a0(France) but secured first place on tiebreak after a short draw in their direct encounter in Round 9.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Both players ended ahead of a chasing group led by\u00a0world number one\u00a0Magnus Carlsen<\/strong>. The Norwegian remained within reach throughout the final day but did not manage to overtake the leaders.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

With this result, Keymer qualifies for the FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship 2027 and earns \u20ac60,000 in prize money. He joins\u00a0world\u00a0champion\u00a0Magnus Carlsen,\u00a0Nodirbek Abdusattorov<\/strong>\u00a0(Uzbekistan), and\u00a0Fabiano Caruana<\/strong>\u00a0(USA), who had already secured their spots through the 2026 World Championship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In the women\u2019s race,\u00a0Harika\u00a0Dronavalli\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>of India,\u00a0<\/span>Alua\u00a0Nurman<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0of Kazakhstan (pictured above), and\u00a0<\/span>Dinara Wagner<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0of Germany claimed the three qualification spots for the FIDE Freestyle Chess Women\u2019s World Championship 2027. All three finished on 6.0 points, ahead of a tightly packed group of eight players on 5.5, undescoring how close the race remained until the final round.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

A full report will be available in the\u00a0news section of Freestyle Chess website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>

Photos: Freestyle Chess<\/p>

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Vincent Keymer\u00a0has won the Freestyle Chess Open A at the grenke Chess Festival in Karlsruhe. The German grandmaster finished tied on points with\u00a0Maxime\u00a0Vachier-Lagrave\u00a0(France) but secured first place on tiebreak after a short draw in their direct encounter in Round 9.\u00a0 Both players ended ahead of a chasing group led by\u00a0world number one\u00a0Magnus Carlsen. The Norwegian remained within reach throughout the final day but did not manage to overtake the leaders.\u00a0\u00a0 With this result, Keymer qualifies for the FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship 2027 and earns \u20ac60,000 in prize money. He joins\u00a0world\u00a0champion\u00a0Magnus Carlsen,\u00a0Nodirbek Abdusattorov\u00a0(Uzbekistan), and\u00a0Fabiano Caruana\u00a0(USA), who had already secured their spots through the 2026 World Championship.\u00a0 In the women\u2019s race,\u00a0Harika\u00a0Dronavalli\u00a0of India,\u00a0Alua\u00a0Nurman\u00a0of Kazakhstan (pictured above), and\u00a0Dinara Wagner\u00a0of Germany claimed the three qualification spots for the FIDE Freestyle Chess Women\u2019s World Championship 2027. All three finished on 6.0 points, ahead of a tightly packed group of eight players on 5.5, undescoring how close the race remained until the final round.\u00a0 A full report will be available in the\u00a0news section of Freestyle Chess website. Photos: Freestyle Chess Official website: https:\/\/www.freestyle-chess.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[431],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-44945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-freestyle-chess"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44952,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44945\/revisions\/44952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44945"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=44945"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=44945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}