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TWIC- 6th Cairns Cup 2026 - Games and Results 10/08/2026The 6th Cairns Cup takes place in Saint Louis August 10th - 21st, 2026. For the first time this women's event is alongside the Sinquefield Cup. Players: Bibisara Assaubayeva, Anna Muzychuk, Humpy Koneru, Zhongyi Tan, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Divya Deshmukh, Rameshbabu Vaishali, Carissa Yip, Stavroula Tsolakidou and Alice Lee.Mark Crowther
- 13th Sinquefield Cup 2026 - Games and Results 10/08/2026The 13th Sinquefield Cup takes place 10th to 20th August 2026. Players: Fabiano Caruana, Javokhir Sindarov, Vincent Keymer, Wesley So, Anish Giri, Praggnanandhaa R, Jorden Van Foreest, Maxime Vachier-lagrave, Levon Aronian and Samuel Sevian.Mark Crowther
- 112th British Chess Championships 2026 - Games and Results 09/08/2026The 112th British Chess Championships took place at the University of Warwick 1st to 9th August 2026. Luke McShane, Michael Adams, Shreyas Royal, Harry Grieve etc. Most interesting is the number of young players with Bodhana Sivanandan being one of those. The event delivered on its promise with 17-year-old Shreyas Royal earning his first title […]Mark Crowther
- WR Chess Rapid & Blitz Miami 2026 - Games and Results 28/07/2026The WR Chess Rapid & Blitz Miami was a two day rapid and then blitz match between the USA and Uzbekistan ahead of the Olympiad. Team: Ukbekistan: Javokhir Sindarov, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Nodirbek Yakubboev, Shamsiddin Vokhidov, Mukhiddin Madaminov, USA: Hikaru Nakamura, Levon Aronian, Wesley So, Fabiano Caruana, Leinier Dominguez Perez. Each round was a team match […]Mark Crowther
- Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2026 - Games and Results 22/07/2026The Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters took place Thu 16th Jul to Wed 22nd Jul 2026. Alireza Firouzja took clear first place with 4½/7 half a point clear of Dmitry Andreikin and Arjun Erigaisi, The poor form of World Champion Gukesh continues as he finished dead last on 2/7 and is in danger of falling below […]Mark Crowther
- Sergei Tiviakov wins his fourth Netherlands Chess Championship - Final 11/07/2026Sergei Tiviakov was the surprise winner of the 2026 Netherlands Chess Championships held at the Renaissance Amsterdam Schiphol Airport Hotel. Whilst the event was missing the strongest two players, Anish Giri and Jordan van Foreest, it was a pretty respectable field and Tiviakov was the eighth seed. Tiviakov beat IM Eelke De Boer in the […]Mark Crowther
- 6th Cairns Cup 2026 - Games and Results 10/08/2026
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- Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant drops into play chess at Bewdley! 06/08/2026Bewdley’s Mayor, Sharon Harvey, arranged for Robert to drop into the Worcestershire Junior Chess Congress – see BBC Hereford & Worcester for picture and more – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly914w625xoWebAdmin
- European Youth Championships – England Coach Appointment 03/08/2026The ECF is appointing the England Coach for the European Youth Chess Championships (EYCC) in Crete from 2-13 November 2026. The England Coach will: Deliver daily on-the-spot coaching with England...WebAdmin
- Direct Member Representative appointments 31/07/2026Please see below the list of appointments — HLVPs, VPs, CVPs, Honorary Life Members – Gerry Walsh, John Wickham Platinum Members – Adrian Elwin, David Eustace Gold Members – Barbara...WebAdmin
- Mick Riding’s Fundraiser for Alzheimer’s Society 13/07/2026Mick Riding, Grassroots Initiative Chairman, will celebrate his 70th birthday on Saturday 18 July by taking part in the Northumberland leg of an Alzheimer’s Society nationwide fundraising initiative. Mick...Melinda Wilde
- 2026 UK Open Blitz 09/07/2026The 2026 UK Open Blitz is now open for entries. There are 16 qualifiers across the UK in September and early October, with the final held in Leamington Spa on...WebAdmin
- 2026 Counties Champions 08/07/2026The 105th Counties Championship Finals took place on Saturday 4 July, with live streaming of the Open Final by Luc Zimmer with commentary from FM Jonathan Blackburn on the ECF...WebAdmin
- Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant drops into play chess at Bewdley! 06/08/2026
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- Sinquefield Cup: Caruana beats Van Foreest to take early lead 11/08/2026Fabiano Caruana was the only winner in the opening round of the Sinquefield Cup, defeating Jorden van Foreest to take the early sole lead in Saint Louis. The remaining four games were drawn, though Javokhir Sindarov missed chances to convert a favourable endgame against Levon Aronian. | Photo: Austin Fuller / Grand Chess Tour
- Veselin Topalov headlines the inaugural Apogee Chess Festival 11/08/2026The inaugural Apogee Chess Festival will take place in Caissargues, near Nîmes, from 22 to 30 August 2026, combining competitive chess with the cultural heritage of southern France. Organised by IM Silvia Alexieva, the event will feature two FIDE-rated open sections, a €26,000 prize fund and a special appearance by former FIDE world champion Veselin […]
- Carlsen returns to defend Esports World Cup title in Paris 10/08/2026Magnus Carlsen will return to defend his Esports World Cup title as chess makes its second appearance at the event, this time in Paris. The competition runs from 11 to 15 August and features a rapid 10-minute time control without increment. Fourteen players have already qualified directly for the group stage, while eight others will […]
- Help us build the next ChessBase 03/08/2026We're planning the next chapters of ChessBase and we want input from the people who actually use it, before we decide what to build first. Help us by taking part in a survey that asks how you work day to day: your setup and hardware, how you use engines and databases, and which parts of […]
- Shifts and mirrors in a chess problem 29/07/2026A year ago problem composer Werner Keym issued a challenge: compose a study in which White is winning – but one that can be shifted and mirrored vertically and horizontally, with all vertically shifted and mirrored positions drawing, and all horizontally shifted and mirrored positions losing. Here is the elegant solution, which reminds us of […]
- How much faster are computers today? 27/07/2026In the early 1980s, as a fledgling TV journalist, I did a report on the fastest computer in the world. The Cray-1 cost eight million dollars and could do 130 million floating point operations per second. That was enough to calculate the weather, but also to win two consecutive world computer chess championships. How much […]
- Sinquefield Cup: Caruana beats Van Foreest to take early lead 11/08/2026
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