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If you are looking for FIDE Grand Swiss Chess 2026 you are at the right place! The right place to learn that the FIDE Grand Swiss happens only on odd years, and in 2026 there is no FIDE Grand Swiss in the calendar.

The next edition of the tournament is going to take place at the isle of man. See all details about the FIDE Grand Swiss 2027 here

Grand Swiss Chess 2027 is going to take place May 10 to 25 on the Isle of Man. The flagship event, featuring a record $900,000 prize fund, will bring together 170 players across the Open and Women’s sections combined. Two spots for FIDE Candidates 2028 will be at stake in each section.

Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus (born June 3, 2011) is currently at a FIDE classical rating of 2687 (April 2026 list), ranked #38 in the world and #1 in Türkiye. Currently, Erdogmus is playing a rated match vs ex-World Champion Veselin Topalov. Erdogmus already won games (including with Black), pushing his live rating to ~2698 and climbing the live rankings to around #36. Only ~1.8 points separate him from 2700 club. A 4,0-2,0 is a score that will guarantee him the entry there.

Clash of Generations III, pitting former World Champion Veselin Topalov against 14-year-old Turkish superstar Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş, is going to take place 12-17 April in Monaco. This is the third edition of the “Clash of Generations” series. Erdoğmuş previously faced Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (drawing five and winning one) and Peter Svidler, proving he can hold his own against 2700+ veterans.

The 2026 European Individual Chess Championship (EICC) is underway in Katowice, Poland, at Arena Katowice, featuring an 11-round Swiss-system format with a €100,000 prize fund and a record 501 participants from 43 federations. As a key qualifier for the FIDE World Cup, the top finishers will secure valuable qualification spots, adding strategic depth: players must balance aggressive play for high scores against the risk of upsets in this open field.

Untold: Chess Mates focuses on the fallout from the 2022 chess cheating scandal involving Hans Niemann and Magnus Carlsen. The episode is going to air today, April 7, on Netflix.

In Untold: Chess Mates, Hans Niemann takes center stage in the documentary, which includes scenes from his modest New York apartment, highlights from his Twitch streams, and an in-depth look at his account of events surrounding the St. Louis tournament, both before and after it unfolded.

The TCEC Season 29 Superfinal is underway, and for the first time in years it does not look like business as usual at the Top Chess Engine Championship. The reigning 18-time champion Stockfish is chasing a record-extending 19th title, but it is doing so against a challenger few predicted would be there.

20-year-old Uzbek grandmaster Javokhir Sindarov won his fourth consecutive game by beating China’s Wei Yi in Round 6 of the FIDE Candidates Tournament at Cap St Georges Hotel & Resort in Cyprus. Sindarov now leads solely with 5.5 out of 6 points, achieving a 3150 performance rating after previous victories over Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Praggnanandhaa R, and Andrey Esipenko. The tournament determines the challenger for the reigning World Champion.

The Grenke Chess Festival 2026, is taking place April 2–6 in Karlsruhe, Germany, with over 3,500 participants (and approaching 4,000 registrations), surpassing previous editions, making it the biggest world class open chess tournament in the world.

On the eve of the premier of Netflix UNTOLD 2026: Chess Mates (the scandal Carlsen – Niemann), Hikaru Nakamura and Hans Niemann entered in an anti-cheating measures debate on Twitter/X.