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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.

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.

The X Open Internacional de Ajedrez Semana Santa San Vicente del Raspeig 2026 is the 10th edition of this popular international chess tournament, held from April 1 to 6, 2026, in the New Sports Center (Nuevo Polideportivo) in San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain. Organized by the Club de Ajedrez Dama Negra under International Organizer Patricia Claros Aguilar, the event features two sections: Group A (open to all players) and Group B (under 1900 rating), each consisting of 9 Swiss-system rounds with a time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment.

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).