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The Dutch Meesterklasse 2025/2026 will take place from 20 September to 11 April 2026 in Netherlands. It is a 10-team round-robin tournament with time control of 90 min/40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from Netherlands, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The Slovenian Team Championship 2025 will take place from September 19 to November 16 in Radenci, Škofja Loka, Slovenia. It is a 10-team round-robin tournament with time control of 90 min/40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from Slovenia, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The 49th Bangladesh National Chess Championship 2025 will take place from September 18 to October 1 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is a 14-player round-robin tournament with time control of 90 min/40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from Bangladesh, check out The Asian Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The Rīgas 2025 will take place from September 19 to September 20 in Riga, Latvia. It is a 7-round Swiss system tournament with time control of 30 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from Latvia, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The Lilla Västerås Open 2025 will take place from September 19 to September 21 in Västerås, Sweden. It is a 7-round Swiss system tournament with time control of 15 min + 5 sec/move for rounds 1-2, 45 min + 15 sec/move for round 3, and 90 min + 30 sec/move for rounds 4-7. For more events from Sweden, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The Västerås Open 2025 will take place from September 19 to September 21 in Västerås, Sweden. It is an 8-round Swiss system tournament with time control of 15 min + 5 sec/move for rounds 1-4 and 90 min + 30 sec/move for rounds 5-8. For more events from Sweden, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The 2nd Annual Blue Ridge Open will take place from September 20 to September 21 in Dulles, USA. It is a 5-round Swiss system tournament with time control of 90 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from USA, check out The North American Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

FIDE World Chess Cup 2025 is going to take place October 20 – November 27 in Goa, India. It will feature 208 players in 8 knockout rounds of classical games. The FIDE World Cup 2025 will award three spots to the Candidates Chess 2026.

The upcoming Season 29 of the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) is poised to deliver one of the most competitive and high-profile editions in its history. This season will mark the highly anticipated debut of Torch, a leading proprietary engine developed by Chess.com. Its inclusion introduces a new dynamic to an already elite field, which includes established engines such as Stockfish (the reigning champion), Leela Chess Zero (Lc0), Integral, Obsidian, others.

Stockfish prolonged its dominance in computer chess by winning Season 28 of the premier computer chess event Top Chess Engine Championship. In the final Stockfish scored 57,5/100 against the runner-up Leela Chess Zero.

This is the 18th TCEC title for Stockfish, extending its unprecedented streak of consecutive titles to eleven. The open source engine is in the TCEC competition since season 4 and has won Seasons 6, 9, 11-14, 16, and 18-28.