The FIDE World Team Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2026 will be held at Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Hong Kong from June 17 to 21, marking the first time the event is hosted in East Asia. With 42 teams and more than 300 players confirmed, including seven of the world’s top ten male players and […]
The Grand Chess Tour Super Rapid & Blitz Poland 2026 will be the first encounter of Gukesh D and Javokhir Sindarov as official title defender and challenger. While the participants in the FIDE World Chess Championship match 2026 are known, the venue of the match is still not set. FIDE Has opened an official bidding […]
The 3rd UzChess Cup 2026 Masters section features a powerful 10-player round-robin lineup in Tashkent from June 7–15. Headlined by world-class talent, the field mixes top Uzbek stars with elite international grandmasters. Leading the rating list is Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2780), followed closely by Arjun Erigaisi (2751), Javokhir Sindarov (2745), Ian Nepomniachtchi (2729), and Hans Moke […]
The 31st edition of the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament will take place in Malmö, Sweden, from May 1 to 7, 2026. This prestigious annual event, organized by Limhamns SK, brings together eight elite players for a single round-robin classical tournament at the Elite Plaza Hotel in central Malmö. It promises to be one […]
The Grand Chess Tour (GCT) 2026 kicks off in spectacular fashion with the Super Rapid & Blitz Poland, scheduled for May 4–10, 2026 in Warsaw, Poland. This high-stakes event brings together 10 elite grandmasters for a week of intense rapid and blitz chess, with a prize fund of $200,000. The tournament will take place at […]
Stockfish has done it again. The open-source chess engine clinched the Top Chess Engine Championship Season 29 Grand Champion title after a dominant 100-game Superfinal against the surging challenger Reckless, completing another masterclass in computer chess. The result marks Stockfish’s 19th TCEC championship overall and its 12th consecutive season title. Official website of the Top […]
If you are looking for FIDE Grand Swiss Chess 2026 you are at the right place! The right place to learn that the FIDE Grand Swiss happens only on odd years, and in 2026 there is no FIDE Grand Swiss in the calendar. The next edition of the tournament is going to take place at […]
Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus (born June 3, 2011) is currently at a FIDE classical rating of 2687 (April 2026 list), ranked #38 in the world and #1 in Türkiye. Currently, Erdogmus is playing a rated match vs ex-World Champion Veselin Topalov. Erdogmus already won games (including with Black), pushing his live rating to ~2698 and climbing […]
Clash of Generations III, pitting former World Champion Veselin Topalov against 14-year-old Turkish superstar Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş, is going to take place 12-17 April in Monaco. This is the third edition of the “Clash of Generations” series. Erdoğmuş previously faced Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (drawing five and winning one) and Peter Svidler, proving he can hold his […]
The 2026 European Individual Chess Championship (EICC) is underway in Katowice, Poland, at Arena Katowice, featuring an 11-round Swiss-system format with a €100,000 prize fund and a record 501 participants from 43 federations. As a key qualifier for the FIDE World Cup, the top finishers will secure valuable qualification spots, adding strategic depth: players must […]
