The FIDE Circuit is the circuit of top individual chess tournaments around the world unified according to the criteria described below. 

• FIDE‐rated individual over‐the‐board standard‐play tournaments   
• FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2026 and 2027, regardless of their dates
• Continental over‐the‐board Rapid and Blitz Championships 2026 and 2027
• Other over‐the‐board FIDE‐rated Rapid & Blitz tournaments
• FIDE-rated tournaments with mixed time controls pre-approved by GSC

Please read full Regulations

The leaderboard will be published after the first points for 2026 events are awarded.

• Rilton Cup 2025/2026 (Stockholm, Sweden, December 27, 2025 – January 05, 2026)
• Tata Steel Chess 2025 – Masters (Wijk can Zee, The Netherlands, January 16 – February 01, 2026)
• Tata Steel Chess 2025 – Challengers (Wijk can Zee, The Netherlands, January 16 – February 01, 2026)

• Prague Masters (Prague, the Czech Republic, February 24 – March 06, 2026)
• Prague Challengers (Prague, the Czech Republic, February 24 – March 06, 2026)

• X Open Internacional de Ajedrez Semana Santa San Vicente del Raspeig 2026 A* (Alicante, Spain, April 01 – 06, 2026) 

* – provisional