The Week in Chess

• 41st European Club Cup 2026 - Games and Results

  The 41st European Club Cup took place in Budva, Montenegro Sat 17th Oct to Fri 23rd Oct 2026.

  In the Open top seeds Bayegan Pendik Chess Sports Club (Giri, Erdogmus, Tabatabaei, Rapport, Mamedyarov) just edged out Novy Bor Chess Club (Yakubboev, Sarin, Harikrishna, Anton) to take the title. Rishon LeZion A (Gelfand) finished 3rd. Second seeds SuperChess Romania (Abdusattorov, Van Foreest) finished fourth. Richard Pert scored a result of a lifetime starting with 6/6 before unfortunately losing in the final round.

  In the Women's event top seeds Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo (Goryachkina, Koneru, Tsolakidou, Paehtz, Cramling) won ahead of Gambit Bonnevoie (Ushenina, Kulon, Danielian, Maltsevskaya, Khalafova) and Sirmium Sremska Mitrovica (Shuvalova, Garifullina, Salimova, Injac, Balabayeva). It was the phenomenon that is Bodhana Sivanandan who took the headlines, her 5.5/7 at the age of 11 makes her the youngest female to become an IM breaking Judit Polgar's long standing record and 7th...

• US Chess Championships 2026 - Games and results

  The US Chess Championships took place in Saint Louis Fri 9th Oct to Wed 21st Oct 2026. Wesley So won his fourth title after a tie-break win against defending champion Fabiano Caruana (winner the last four years 2022-25 champion). So had led by a point from Caruana going into the final round but lost to tail-ender Sam Sevian. The women's event was of great interest too with debutant Rachael Li winning on her first time out, half a point clear of Alice Lee.

• 46th World Chess Olympiad 2026 - Games and Results

  The 46th World Chess Olympiad took place Wed 16th to Sun 27th Sep 2026 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The USA, India and hosts Uzbekistan are the top three seeds, India, Georgia, Kazakhstan and China are the top women's seeds.

  The hosts Uzbekistan took the gold medal ahead of India and Germany. In the women's event China won ahead of Kazakhstan and India. All the games are available for download including my own corrections, I chose not to display files of this size.

• 3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities 2026 - Games and Results

  The 3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities took place Fri 11th to Thu 17th Sep 2026. Poland beat Cuba in Round 5 to take the lead which they retained to the end, Cuba took the Silver medal and Uzbekistan 1 the Bronze.

• Clutch Chess: The Legends 2026 - Games and results

  Clutch Chess: The Legends was a match between Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov held over three days at the Saint Louis Chess Club. The games were Chess960. There were two time controls: Rapid (Games 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 and 10) 25+10spm and Blitz (3, 4, 7, 8, 11 and 12) 5m+3spm. The Clutch Chess is all about the scoring; day one has a normal score, day 2 has double day 1 and day 3 is triple day one, the idea being that there is a building excitement. There was also bonus money, up to $24,000 that rolled over to the final two games if there was a draw. I cannot currently display Chess960 games, Topalov won the match 16-8, The rapid portion saw Topalov win a rapid game on day one and Kasparov on day 3, the rest were drawn. Topalov won 5 of the 6 blitz games only losing one, on the first day.

• Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2026 - Games and results

  The Tech Mahindra Global Chess League took place in Bengaluru, India 5th-13th September 2026. 6 Teams played over 10 rounds in rapid (10m+2spm) chess. The winners were Ganges Grandmasters with Ian Nepomniachtchi as the Legend and Levon Aronian as their board 2. Magnus Carlsen's Alpine APL Pipers finished second after losing the final. Nepomniachtchi was allowed to escape a lost position against Magnus Carlsen and turned it round for a win. FYERS American Gambits finished in 3rd after beating CheQ Mumba Masters.

• Legends and Prodigies II 2026 - Games and results

  The second Legends and Prodigies tournament took place in Madrid Mon 7th to Sat 12th Sep 2026. David Anton Guijarro was a convincing winner with a score of 7.5/10 a point and a half clear of Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara, prodogy Faustino Oro finished on 5.5 points. Francisco Fiorito won the B-tournament with 7/9.