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TWIC- 46th World Chess Olympiad 2026 - Games and Results 03/10/2026The 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 […]Mark Crowther
- 3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities 2026 - Games and Results 17/09/2026The 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.Mark Crowther
- Clutch Chess: The Legends 2026 - Games and results 13/09/2026Clutch 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 […]Mark Crowther
- Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2026 - Games and results 13/09/2026The 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 […]Mark Crowther
- Legends and Prodigies II 2026 - Games and results 13/09/2026The 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.Mark Crowther
- European Senior Team Championship 2026 - Games and results 04/09/2026The European Senior Team Championship 2026 took place Thu 27th August to Fri 4th September 2026. In the +50 event final Standings: 1st England 1, 17pts. 2nd Italy, 16pts. 3rd-4th Netherlands were just ahead of Slovakia on tie-break after they both scored 13pts. In the +65 final 1st Slovenia who overtook England on tie-break after […]Mark Crowther
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- Visit to HMP Whitemoor – Carl Portman 09/10/2026HMP Whitemoor HM Prison Whitemoor is a Category A men’s prison near March, Cambridgeshire, England, operated by His Majesty’s Prison Service. It was built on the site of an old...WebAdmin
- BCET Awards 2026 09/10/2026The Chess Trust make annual BCET Awards to schools and junior clubs. This year we received several very good applications and had a difficult task in selecting six. Those receiving the...WebAdmin
- Coaching blind players 30/09/2026Greetings all! Putting on my ECF Manager of Coaches hat I have been asked by Gerry Walsh if there are any coaches out there who would like to coach blind...WebAdmin
- New ECF resources for chess clubs 15/09/2026The English Chess Federation has produced a new collection of guidance and model documents to support local chess clubs. The resources are intended to help club volunteers establish clear and...Melinda Wilde
- ECF AGM – Call for nominations 14/09/2026Nominations are invited for the positions detailed below, which will be the subject of elections to be held at the Annual General Meeting on 14th November 2026. Posts due for...Melinda Wilde
- The European Senior Team Chess Championships – wins across the board! 05/09/2026— from Nigel Povah England retain two European Senior Team Chess Titles! England retained two of the European titles (which they had won last year) in the European Senior Chess...WebAdmin
- Visit to HMP Whitemoor – Carl Portman 09/10/2026
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- European Club Cup: Favourites set for direct encounters 20/10/2026Eleven teams remain tied for first place in the open section of the European Club Cup after three rounds, with tenth seeds Beer Sheva the only top-twelve team to have dropped a match point. The fourth round will see SuperChess facing Bayegan Pendik, with a potential battle between Anish Giri and Nodirbek Abdusattorov (pictured) on […]
- US Championships - Live! 19/10/2026The US Championships are taking place on 9-21 October at the Saint Louis Chess Club. Each tournament is a 12-player single round-robin with a classical time control. Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So and Levon Aronian are the highest-rated players in the open, while Carissa Yip, Alice Lee and Irina Krush head the women's field. | Follow […]
- From quitting chess to becoming a Grandmaster - Interview with Arturs Neiksans 19/10/2026GM Arturs Neiksans looks back on his remarkable chess journey, from growing up in the small Latvian town of Valka and discovering chess at age nine to representing Latvia and eventually becoming a Grandmaster. He explains why he stepped away from competitive chess, how a career detour ultimately brought him back to the game, and […]
- European Club Cup: Crowded at the top 19/10/2026A total of 108 teams are competing in the European Club Cup in Budva in the open section, with 22 in the women's competition. On paper, the favourites in the open are Bayegan Pendik Chess Sports Club from Turkey, with an average Elo rating of 2715. Bayegan are also the only team with an average […]
- Total Chess proposes unified rating system 19/10/2026Total Chess has proposed a new rating system that combines players' classical, rapid and blitz ratings into a single figure. Developed by researcher Mehmet Mars Seven in collaboration with Norway Chess, the formula uses existing FIDE ratings to assess overall playing strength across the three formats. Magnus Carlsen (pictured) tops the inaugural ranking, followed by […]
- US Championships: So wins again, now a full point ahead 18/10/2026Wesley So defeated Andy Woodward in round eight of the US Championship to extend his lead to a full point over Fabiano Caruana, who drew against Sam Sevian. The two will meet in Monday's ninth round. In the women's tournament, Alice Lee and Rachael Li remain tied for first place on 6/8, while Thalia Cervantes […]
- European Club Cup: Favourites set for direct encounters 20/10/2026
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