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The Grenke Open 2026 will take place from 2nd-6th April 2026. There are two tournaments taking place just like last year – the Grenke Open A, and the Grenke Freestyle Open A where all the World’s best players are taking part! This is a 9-round swiss tournament with a time control of 90 minutes + 30 second increment starting from move one. GM Harshit Raja and IM Soumya Swaminathan will be doing live commentary. This year’s Grenke Chess 2026 carries unprecedented importance.

The Grenke Chess Open (classical chess) is the traditional open tournament running April 2–6, 2026, in Karlsruhe, Germany, as part of the Grenke Chess Festival. It features a €70,000 prize fund and is played over 9 rounds in a Swiss system with classical time control (90 minutes + 30 seconds per move).

The world’s largest open chess festival returns to the Karlsruhe Congress Center on Thursday, April 2, 2026, as the Grenke Freestyle Chess Open gets underway alongside its classical counterpart. With over 3,000 players registered, pushing toward a new record, the five-day Easter event has transformed the Schwarzwaldhalle into a massive chess arena buzzing with boards, clocks, and international talent.

This year’s Grenke Chess 2026 carries unprecedented importance. For the first time, the tournament serves as an official qualifier for the FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship 2027. Live games with Magnus Carlsen, Vincent Keymer, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Levon Aronian, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Jan-Krzysztof Duda, among dozens of grandmasters rated over 2700 will be daily on Chessdom.com.

Candidates Chess 2026 takes place in Paphos, Cyprus, from 28 March to 16 April 2026. It is an eight-player double round-robin, meaning each participant plays every other player twice (14 rounds total).

Participants include Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, R Praggnanandhaa, Anish Giri, Wei Yi, Andrey Esipenko, Javokhir Sindarov, and Matthias Blübaum. Candidates Chess 2026 start with round 1 on March 29th. The final round is April 16th.

The FIDE Women’s Candidates Tournament 2026 is taking place from late March to mid-April 2026 in Cyprus. It features 8 players including Zhu Jiner, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Tan Zhongyi, Kateryna Lagno, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Divya Deshmukh, Bibisara Assaubayeva, Anna Muzychuk.

Live games will be daily on Chessdom

Open section: Candidates 2026 live games

Candidates Chess 2026 takes place in Paphos, Cyprus, from 28 March to 16 April 2026. It is an eight-player double round-robin, meaning each participant plays every other player twice (14 rounds total).

Candidates Chess 2026 takes place in Paphos, Cyprus, from 28 March to 16 April 2026. It is an eight-player double round-robin, meaning each participant plays every other player twice (14 rounds total).

Participants include Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, R Praggnanandhaa, Anish Giri, Wei Yi, Andrey Esipenko, Javokhir Sindarov, and Matthias Blübaum. Candidates Chess 2026 start with round 1 on March 29th. The final round is April 16th. This is the official FIDE broadcast with Peter Svidler and Jan Gustafsson

Candidates Chess 2026 takes place in Paphos, Cyprus, from 28 March to 16 April 2026. It is an eight-player double round-robin, meaning each participant plays every other player twice (14 rounds total).

Participants include Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, R Praggnanandhaa, Anish Giri, Wei Yi, Andrey Esipenko, Javokhir Sindarov, and Matthias Blübaum. Candidates Chess 2026 start with round 1 on March 29th. The final round is April 16th.

Have you ever heard of “The Great Bluebaum Sweep”? It’s a playful, ironic meme that pops up in the chess community, centered around German Grandmaster Matthias Blübaum. “The Great Bluebaum Sweep” imagines Blübaum absolutely steamrolling the Candidates Tournament, not just winning it, but doing so in absurdly dominant fashion. Fans exaggerate this idea to the extreme, joking that he’ll go a flawless 14/14 in the double round-robin format, defeating every top contender without dropping a single point.