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TWIC- GCT Super Chess Classic Romania 2026 - Games and Results 13/05/2026The Grand Chess Tour Super Chess Classic Romania takes place Thu 14th May to Sat 23rd May 2026. Players: Caruana, Sindarov, Giri, Firouzja, Keymer, Wesley So, Jorden Van Foreest, Praggnanandhaa, MVL and Deac.Mark Crowther
- Faustino Oro earns his final GM norm in Sardinia - 9 11/05/2026Argentinian chess player Faustino Oro finally has become a Grandmaster after a six points from nine games performance at the Sardinia World Chess Festival. Oro had previous norms at the Legends and Prodigies tournament in September 2025 and the Magistral Szmetan-Giardelli in December 2025. Oro had been chasing the third and final mark since then […]Mark Crowther
- Sardinia World Chess Festival 2026 - 11/05/2026The Sardinia World Chess Festival took place Sun 3rd May 2026 to Sun 10th May 2026 in Orosei, Italy. Frederik Svane took clear first place with 7.5/9 half a point clear of Haik M. Martirosyan, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Mamikon Gharibyan. Tied for 25th place on 6/9 was Faustino Oro who in spite of a loss […]Mark Crowther
- GCT Super Rapid & Blitz Poland 2026 - Games and Results 09/05/2026The GCT Super Rapid & Blitz Poland took place Tue 5th May to Thu 7th May 2026. 9 rounds of rapid and 18 rounds of blitz. Players: Wesley So, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, D Gukesh, Hans Moke Niemann, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Alireza Firouzja, Vladimir Fedoseev, Fabiano Caruana, Javokhir Sindarov and Jan Krzysztof Duda. Hans Moke Niemann held off […]Mark Crowther
- Magnus Carlsen wins the 31st Sigeman & Co tournament after tie-break win over Erigaisi - 7 07/05/2026The final day of the 31st Sigeman & Co tournament saw a number of twists and turns before Magnus Carlsen emerged as the winner. The leader Arjun Erigaisi went full blooded for a win against Andy Woodward and it really was too much when he pushed his g and h pawns with no development. Erigaisi […]Mark Crowther
- Erigaisi leads the Sigeman tournament alone with one round to go - 6 06/05/2026The final round of the Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament in Malmo promises to be very tense after an interesting round 6. Arjun Erigaisi beat Zhu Jiner in an endgame where the Chinese player had a tricky defence in a holdable position. Magnus Carlsen chose the King's Indian against Andy Woodward which led to double […]Mark Crowther
- GCT Super Chess Classic Romania 2026 - Games and Results 13/05/2026
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- Password expiration phishing emails 13/05/2026Please ignore any emails that are not from a named person in the ECF Office asking you to ‘Update Password’ or similar, and claiming your email account passord is set...WebAdmin
- Kayal Vijay Under 9 Girls Champion – European Schools 06/05/2026We are delighted to share the news that Kayal Vijay has been crowned Under 9 Girls Champion at the European Schools Chess Championship 2026, held in Croatia from 27th April...WebAdmin
- ECF Yearbook 2026 05/05/2026The 2026 ECF Official Chess Yearbook is now available as a free PDF to all readers here: https://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Yearbook-2026-compressed.pdf Weighing in at just over 300 pages, the yearbook’s contents include: Home...WebAdmin
- Expression of Interest: Glorney Cup 2026 05/05/2026The 2026 Glorney Cup, involving junior teams from six nations including England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, is being held at the University of Limerick, Ireland on 27-30 July. England will be...WebAdmin
- Rating System Incident and File Resubmission Required 01/05/2026Our hosting provider, which provides the server for our websites, email, rating and LMS systems, has informed us of a global security incident impacting managed cloud servers across the internet....Melinda Wilde
- Problem with Swiss Manager and the ECF rating list 20/04/2026There is an ongoing problem at the moment in that Swiss Manager, the main pairing program used at events around England can’t access the latest ECF rating list. There is a...WebAdmin
- Password expiration phishing emails 13/05/2026
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- The Times explores chess revival at Simpson's in the Strand 14/05/2026Simpson's in the Strand has reopened with a nod to its origins as a chess venue, a detail explored by Harry Wallop in The Times. Wallop's article uses the London restaurant's history to examine a wider revival of over-the-board chess, from social clubs and café events to rising sales of physical chess sets, and considers […]
- Super Chess Classic Romania - Live! 14/05/2026The second event of the 2026 Grand Chess Tour is the Super Chess Classic Romania, which is taking place on 14-23 May in Bucharest. Nine regular tour players, all elite GMs with 2700+ ratings, are joined by wildcard Bogdan-Daniel Deac. Fabiano Caruana, Javokhir Sindarov and Anish Giri are the top seeds. | Follow the action […]
- Wadim Rosenstein and his intensive plan to promote chess 14/05/2026Wadim Rosenstein came into prominence when he organised the first edition of WR Chess in 2023. He then came up with the idea of the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Teams - an event that has become a mainstay in the chess calendar. In recent times, if you follow Rosenstein on his X account, the […]
- Super Rapid & Blitz Poland - Live! 09/05/2026Kicking off the 2026 Grand Chess Tour is the Super Rapid & Blitz Poland, the first of three speed chess events, which is taking place on 5-9 May in Warsaw. Ahead of the final day of action, Hans Niemann is the sole leader, with Wesley So standing close behind, at a mere half-point distance. | […]
- TePe Sigeman - Live! 07/05/2026The TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament is taking place on 1–7 May in Malmö, Sweden. World number one Magnus Carlsen heads the field, as he faces ambitious opposition that includes Tata Steel Masters winner Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Arjun Erigaisi and rising star Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, who recently became the youngest player to ever cross the 2700 rating […]
- Problem Challenge April 20/04/2026Were you able to handle the four rook endgame studies we showed you recently? They were a little bit harder to solve than they looked. We now bring you all the intricacies and subtleties in short videos by IM Gauri Shankar, who works as a chess trainer in Chicago. And of course we give you […]
- The Times explores chess revival at Simpson's in the Strand 14/05/2026
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