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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.

In a spirit of goodwill and cooperation, with a virtual handshake, the Stockfish and Reckless teams present a peaceful solution in the face of a challenging force majeure situation.

Reckless chess engine is making headlines in computer chess by breaking a long term duopoly. Chessdom spoke to Arseniy Surkov about the key features of the engine, the team behind it, and the future of the engines.

Follow Reckless vs Stockfish TCEC Superfinal / Top Chess Engine Championship live on Chessdom

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).