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TWIC- 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
- 46th World Chess Olympiad 2026 - Games and Results 17/09/2026The 46th World Chess Olympiad takes 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. I will broadcast the top 20 matches live for each of the Open and Women's event.(update every […]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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- 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
- Help strengthen the ECF’s IT team 01/09/2026Following the retirement of our IT Manager, Nigel Towers, at the end of August, the ECF is reviewing how its IT function should be organised for the future. We are...Melinda Wilde
- It’s Leonard Barden’s birthday! 20/08/2026The ECF wishes Leonard Barden a very happy 97th birthday today! Leonard is the Guardian’s chess columnist, and holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running continuous chess column, which...WebAdmin
- The 11th Menchik Memorial 19/08/2026The English Chess Federation is pleased to host the 11th Menchik Memorial Tournament, which will take place from Monday 24th to Sunday 30th August 2026 at the ILEC Conference Centre....WebAdmin
- New ECF resources for chess clubs 15/09/2026
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- Quo vadis, Fischer Random Chess? (2) 22/09/2026In a previous article we described the genesis of this increasingly popular form of chess – and what the strongest ever player, Magnus Carlsen, thinks of it. Today we hear the opinion of another top grandmaster. In this remarkable interview you can listen to the view of Levon Aronian – but also on a number […]
- Samarkand R6 (open): Uzbekistan beat India to take the sole lead 22/09/2026Uzbekistan reached the rest day as the sole leaders of the open Chess Olympiad after edging defending champions India 2½–1½ in round six. Nodirbek Yakubboev (pictured) scored the decisive win from what had been an inferior position against Nihal Sarin. China and Armenia moved into joint second on 11/12 match points after beating Germany and […]
- John Donaldson: New insights into Bobby Fischer 22/09/2026Bobby Fischer remains one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures in chess history. IM John Donaldson, captain of the US team at the Chess Olympiad and the author of numerous books on famous and lesser-known chess personalities, is one of the leading experts on Fischer. He recently published a new book on the 1972 […]
- How can humans prosper in the AI era? Child's play 21/09/2026Robots solve puzzles more efficiently, but there's a joy derived from unscrambling a Rubik's Cube or mastering chess. This Telegraph article, by Judit Polgar and Erno Rubik, argues that as AI becomes vastly faster and more capable than humans at solving problems, we risk losing something more important than efficiency: the human experience of thinking, […]
- Chess Olympiad - Live! 21/09/2026The 46th edition of the Chess Olympiad is taking place on 16-27 September at the Silk Road EXPO in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. A record 208 teams in the open and 191 in the women's category are fighting for collective and individual medals. | Follow the games live with expert commentary starting at 12.00 CEST (6.00 ET, […]
- Samarkand R5 (open): Germany stun USA, share the lead with India and Uzbekistan 21/09/2026India, Uzbekistan and Germany emerged from round five with perfect 10/10 match scores after winning their clashes against fellow co-leaders. Germany defeated top seeds United States 2½–1½, with Frederik Svane (pictured) scoring the decisive win over Hans Niemann, while India beat the Netherlands and Uzbekistan swept Hungary 4–0. China and Armenia drew 2–2 and now […]
- Quo vadis, Fischer Random Chess? (2) 22/09/2026
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