FIDE Circuit 2026 – 2027 – Copy – International Chess Federation

FIDE Circuit 2026 - 2027

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

FIDE reserves the right to obtain additional information as needed.

Please note that all responses will be used solely for the purposes of managing the FIDE Circuit initiative.

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

[Updated on 1 May 2026]

JANUARY

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)

FEBRUARY

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)

MARCH

FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026 (Paphos, Cyprus, March 28 – April 16, 2026)
19th International chess tournament “In Memory of Georgy Agzamov, First Grandmaster of Uzbekistan (Tashkent, Uzbekistan, March 17 – 26, 2026)

APRIL

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

MAY

JULY

2026 Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid* (Charlotte, USA, July 03, 2026)
2026 Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz* (Charlotte, USA, July 04 – 05, 2026)
Biel International Chess Festival – Masters Triathlon (Biel, Switzerland, July 11 – 24, 2026)
Biel International Chess Festival – Masters Open (Biel, Switzerland, July 13 – 23, 2026)
3rd DOLE OPEN (Aix-en-Provence, France, July 18 – 26, 2026)

AUGUST

⁠International Dortmund Chess Days – Sparkassen Chess Trophy (Dortmund, Germany, August 01-09, 2026)
62nd International Akiba Rubinstein Chess Festival – GM Round Robin Tournament (Polanica-Zdroj, Poland, August 15 – 23, 2026)

NOVEMBER

* – provisional