41st European Club Cup 2026

41st European Club Cup 2026 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Fri Oct 23 19:33:00 2026)

The 41st European Club Cup took place in Budva, Montenegro Sat 17th Oct to Fri 23rd Oct 2026.

In the Open top seeds Bayegan Pendik Chess Sports Club (Giri, Erdogmus, Tabatabaei, Rapport, Mamedyarov) just edged out Novy Bor Chess Club (Yakubboev, Sarin, Harikrishna, Anton) to take the title. Rishon LeZion A (Gelfand) finished 3rd. Second seeds SuperChess Romania (Abdusattorov, Van Foreest) finished fourth. Richard Pert scored a result of a lifetime starting with 6/6 before unfortunately losing in the final round.

In the Women's event top seeds Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo (Goryachkina, Koneru, Tsolakidou, Paehtz, Cramling) won ahead of Gambit Bonnevoie (Ushenina, Kulon, Danielian, Maltsevskaya, Khalafova) and Sirmium Sremska Mitrovica (Shuvalova, Garifullina, Salimova, Injac, Balabayeva). It was the phenomenon that is Bodhana Sivanandan who took the headlines, her 5.5/7 at the age of 11 makes her the youngest female to become an IM breaking Judit Polgar's long standing record and 7th youngest IM over all. It wasn't really a surprise, she was already playing to well above IM level. Read more ....

US Chess Championships 2026

US Chess Championships 2026 Games and results

Mark Crowther (Thu Oct 22 22:12:00 2026)

The US Chess Championships took place in Saint Louis Fri 9th Oct to Wed 21st Oct 2026. Wesley So won his fourth title after a tie-break win against defending champion Fabiano Caruana (winner the last four years 2022-25 champion). So had led by a point from Caruana going into the final round but lost to tail-ender Sam Sevian. The women's event was of great interest too with debutant Rachael Li winning on her first time out, half a point clear of Alice Lee. Read more ....

46th World Chess Olympiad 2026

46th World Chess Olympiad 2026 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Sat Oct 3 11:02:00 2026)

The 46th World Chess Olympiad took place Wed 16th to Sun 27th Sep 2026 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The USA, India and hosts Uzbekistan are the top three seeds, India, Georgia, Kazakhstan and China are the top women's seeds.

The hosts Uzbekistan took the gold medal ahead of India and Germany. In the women's event China won ahead of Kazakhstan and India. All the games are available for download including my own corrections, I chose not to display files of this size. Read more ....

3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities 2026

3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities 2026 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Thu Sep 17 20:10:00 2026)

The 3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities took place Fri 11th to Thu 17th Sep 2026. Poland beat Cuba in Round 5 to take the lead which they retained to the end, Cuba took the Silver medal and Uzbekistan 1 the Bronze. Read more ....