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 current scores are provisional. Each player’s final score will be subject to fulfilling the requirements of Art. 4 of the regulations.

• 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)
• Brazil Chess Series – Floripa 2026 (Florianopolis, Brazil, January 17-25, 2026)

• 3rd International “Al-Beruniy” tournament (Tashkent, Uzbekistan, February 12 – 22, 2026)
• Prague Masters 2026 (Prague, the Czech Republic, February 24 – March 06, 2026)
• Prague Challengers 2026 (Prague, the Czech Republic, February 24 – March 06, 2026)
• 2026 Saint Louis Masters (Saint Louis, USA, February 25 – March 01, 2026)
• Aeroflot Open 2026 (Moscow, Russia, February 27 – March 06, 2026)

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

• 2026 Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid* (Charlotte, USA, July 03, 2026)
• 2026 Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz* (Charlotte, USA, July 04 – 05, 2026)
• 3rd DOLE OPEN (Aix-en-Provence, France, July 18 – 26, 2026)

• ⁠International Dortmund Chess Days – Sparkassen Chess Trophy (Dortmund, Germany, August 01-09, 2026)

NOVEMBER

• 2026 US Masters (Charlotte, USA, November 25 – 29, 2026) 

* – provisional