The Championships are open to all players, regardless of rating or title, who reach the required age during the calendar year ...

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) and the Egyptian Chess Federation are pleased to invite all the member federations to the 2026 FIDE World U7-U17 Rapid and Blitz Championships. The event will ...

With this in mind, FIDE is launching an open process for nominations to all non-elected positions within FIDE Commissions/Committees.

The third day of the European Continental Stage of the FIDE ISCF World Schools Team Championship 2026 elevated the ...

Hamburg / Weissenhaus, October 1, 2026 – The race to the 2027 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship is back on. Freestyle ...

Alongside the 2026 World Schools Chess Championship – Europe, the International Scientific Conference “Theory and Practice of ...

The curtain fell on the World Schools Team Championship Europe 2026. After four days of intense competition, brilliant sacrifices, and unparalleled teamwork, the young chess champions were crowned in ...

Predin saw a brilliant display of standard attacking patterns against a loosely castled king. Black compromised their center ...

The October 2026 rating list was primarily shaped by the recently concluded 46th Chess Olympiad, with both the top 10 Open and Women’s lists seeing some important shifts. Nodirbek Abdusattorov ...

Members of the Small Nations Chess Association (SNACA) convened in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, for the Association’s General Assembly, where they agreed to revitalize SNACA’s operations, approved new ...