The Week in Chess

• Total Chess Pilot 2026 - Games and Results

  The Total Chess Pilot tournament takes place in Budapest Tue 10th Nov to Sat 21st Nov 2026. Three stages. A preliminary blitz, group stages and then a final knockout stage. Games will take place across a multiplicity of time controls and weighted results. (Blitz: 3 min + 2 sec per move, starting from move 1 Rapid: 15 min + 10 sec per move, starting from move 1 Fast Classic: 45 min + 30 sec per move, starting from move 1)

  Players: Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Vincent Keymer, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Arjun Erigaisi, Anish Giri, Alireza Firouzja, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Quang Liem Le, Richard Rapport, Levon Aronian, Hans Moke Niemann, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Jorden van Foreest, Haik M. Martirosyan, Vladislav Artemiev, Abhimanyu Mishra, Andrew Hong, Bibisara Assaubayeva, Rameshbabu Vaishali.

• 89th Tata Steel 2027 - Games and Results

  The 89th Tata Steel Chess tournament takes place in Wijk aan Zee Fri 15th Jan to Sun 31st Jan 2027.

  Masters: Vincent Keymer, Arjun Erigaisi, Anish Giri, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, Dommaraju Gukesh, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Javokhir Sindarov, Hans Niemann, Vladimir Fedoseev, Jorden van Foreest, Aravindh Chithambaram, Matthias Bluebaum, Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, Thai Dai Van Nguyen.

  Challengers: Velimir Ivic, Erwin l'Ami, Aydin Suleymanli, Marc'Andria Maurizzi, Andy Woodward, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Daniil Yuffa, Max Warmerdam, Faustino Oro, Bibisara Assaubayeva, Carissa Yip, Lu Miaoyi, Vedant Panesar, Eline Roebers.

• English Open Championships 2026 - Games and Results

  The English Open Championships 2026 took place Sat 24th October to Sun 1st November 2026. English Open 2026: Gawain Maroroa Jones won with 7½/9 a point clear of Michael Adams, Brandon Gi Clarke and Daniel W Gormally on 6½. English Women's 2026: Elmira Mirzoeva won with 7½/9 a point clear of Anusha Subramanian on 6½.

• Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown 2026 - Games and results

  The Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown took place Tue 27th Oct 2026 to 29th Oct 2026. The idea of the event was to have increasing scores from day 1 to day 3 so that the scoring is volatile and likely there will be something to play for right to the end. Javokhir Sindarov won the event with a draw in the final round, if Praggnanandhaa had won he would have taken the event. That said the players finished in exactly the order they would have finished with standard scoring.

  Mortifyingly I had the wrong scores in the final standings although the right results. It seems that contrary to logic it was 1pt for a draw on the final day not 1.5pts.

• 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.