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 01 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
- 19th International chess tournament In Memory of Georgy Agzamov, First Grandmaster of Uzbekistan (Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 17-26 March, 2026)
- KazChess Masters Shymkent Round Robin Tournament (Shymkent, Kazakhstan, 21 – 29 March, 2026)
- Reykjavik Open 2026 (Reykjavik, Iceland, March 25 – 31, 2026)
- FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026 (Paphos, Cyprus, March 28 – April 16, 2026)
APRIL
- X Open Internacional de Ajedrez Semana Santa San Vicente del Raspeig 2026 A (Alicante, Spain, April 01 – 06, 2026)
- The GRENKE Chess Open 2026 A-Open (Karlsruhe, Germany, April 02 – 06, 2026)
- European Individual Chess Championship 2026 (Katowice, Poland, April 06 – 20, 2026)
- V Open Chess Menorca 2026 (Menorca, Spain, April 07 – 12, 2026)
- Cerrado Chess Menorca 2026 (Menorca, Spain, April 07 – 12, 2026)
- The XXIII Karpov International Chess Tournament (Khanty-Mansijsk, Russia, April 10 – 17, 2026)
- 23rd Bangkok Chess Clun Open 2026 – Masters (Bangkok, Thailand, April 11 – 19, 2026)
- Baku Open 2026 (Baku, Azerbaijan, April 28 – May 06, 2026)
MAY
- 2026 Super Rapid and Blitz Poland (Warsaw, Poland, May 03 – 10, 2026)
- TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament, (Malmo, Sweden, May 01 – 07, 2026)
- Sardinia World Chess Festival* (Orosei, Italy, 03 – 10 May, 2026)
- 2026 Super Chess Classic Romania (Bucharest, Romania, May 12 – 24, 2026)
- GrandPrix Pluscity – Rapid 2026* (Pasching, Austria, May 14, 2026)
- GrandPrix Pluscity – Blitz 2026* (Pasching, Austria, May 15, 2026)
- 21st Asian Individual Chess Championships 2026 (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, May 28 – April 7, 2026)
JUNE
- Aktobe Open 2026 Vladimir Dvorkovich Memorial* (Aktobe, Kazakhstan, June 03 – 11, 2026)
- The III International Chess Tournament UzChess Cup” MASTERS (Tashkent, Uzbekistan, June 07 – 15, 2026)
- The III International Chess Tournament UzChess Cup” CHALLENGERS (Tashkent, Uzbekistan, June 08 – 15, 2026)
- 2026 Super Rapid and Blitz Croatia (Zagreb, Croatia, June 29 – July 06, 2026)
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)
- Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2026 (Chennai, India, July 16 – 25, 2026)
- 3rd DOLE OPEN (Aix-en-Provence, France, July 18 – 26, 2026)
- Asian Rapid Chess Championship 2026 (Hong Kong, China, July 28 – 29, 2026)
- Asian Blitz Chess Championship 2026 (Hong Kong, China, July 30, 2026)
- 2026 Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz (Saint Louis, USA, July 31 – August 07, 2026)
AUGUST
- 2026 Sinquefield Cup (Saint Louis, USA, August 08 – 12, 2026)
- International Dortmund Chess Days – Sparkassen Chess Trophy (Dortmund, Germany, August 01-09, 2026)
- Open Internacional de Sants – Ciutat de Barcelona* (Barcelona, Spain, 21 – 30 August, 2026)
- 62nd International Akiba Rubinstein Chess Festival – GM Round Robin Tournament (Polanica-Zdroj, Poland, August 15 – 23, 2026)
NOVEMBER
- 2026 US Masters (Charlotte, USA, November 25 – 29, 2026)
* – provisional