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The Super Rapid & Blitz Croatia, the third stop on the 2026 Grand Chess Tour, begins Wednesday in Zagreb with a world-class field competing in one of the year’s premier speed chess events. The event follows the Tour’s opening legs in Warsaw and Bucharest and brings together 10 elite grandmasters for a five-day competition consisting of nine rounds of rapid chess (25 minutes plus a 10-second increment) followed by 18 rounds of blitz (5 minutes plus a 2-second increment).

Star-Studded Field Headlines Inaugural Naroditsky Memorial in Charlotte

The inaugural Naroditsky Memorial Rapid & Blitz gets underway Friday in Charlotte, North Carolina, bringing together one of the strongest speed chess fields ever assembled in the United States to honor the legacy of Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky.

One of the most active people and motors of European chess is always ready to discuss development, policy, and more. At Chessdom are pleased to talk to Mr. Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou. In a previous interview he said to us, “We represent the Europe of the many, the Europe of the ‘equal rights’ Nations“. Today he is running for yet another term as ECU Secretary General and we wanted to know his stance on the hot topics of the day.

The 2026 Swedish Chess Championship is underway in Jönköping, Sweden, running from June 26 to July 4. The country’s premier national event features a 10-player round-robin tournament, with each participant facing every other competitor once to determine the Swedish champion.

The championship is played with the classical time control of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 additional minutes for the remainder of the game, with a 30-second increment from move one.

LLMs often can’t beat a decent amateur at chess, and sometimes lose to total beginners. Researchers and hobbyists testing models like ChatGPT have documented them making blatantly illegal moves, moving pieces that aren’t there, or confidently “winning” games they’ve actually lost track of.

The FIDE World Team Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2026 will be held at Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Hong Kong from June 17 to 21, marking the first time the event is hosted in East Asia. With 42 teams and more than 300 players confirmed, including seven of the world’s top ten male players and four of the world’s top ten female players, the championship brings the global chess spotlight to Hong Kong on an unprecedented scale. The field features World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen and women’s World No. 1 Hou Yifan.

The Grand Chess Tour Super Rapid & Blitz Poland 2026 will be the first encounter of Gukesh D and Javokhir Sindarov as official title defender and challenger. While the participants in the FIDE World Chess Championship match 2026 are known, the venue of the match is still not set. FIDE Has opened an official bidding procedure.

The 3rd UzChess Cup 2026 Masters section features a powerful 10-player round-robin lineup in Tashkent from June 7–15. Headlined by world-class talent, the field mixes top Uzbek stars with elite international grandmasters. Leading the rating list is Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2780), followed closely by Arjun Erigaisi (2751), Javokhir Sindarov (2745), Ian Nepomniachtchi (2729), and Hans Moke Niemann (2728).

The 31st edition of the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament will take place in Malmö, Sweden, from May 1 to 7, 2026. This prestigious annual event, organized by Limhamns SK, brings together eight elite players for a single round-robin classical tournament at the Elite Plaza Hotel in central Malmö. It promises to be one of the strongest editions in recent years, highlighted by the participation of World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen, who is making a rare appearance in a closed classical round-robin.

The Grand Chess Tour (GCT) 2026 kicks off in spectacular fashion with the Super Rapid & Blitz Poland, scheduled for May 4–10, 2026 in Warsaw, Poland. This high-stakes event brings together 10 elite grandmasters for a week of intense rapid and blitz chess, with a prize fund of $200,000. The tournament will take place at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and features a mix of full-tour players and wildcards, promising exciting matchups and plenty of fighting chess.