Last updated: Monday 2nd November 2026 3:30 pm
- The Week in Chess 1668 of 26th October 2026 by Mark Crowther. 35 stories and 7159 games. Links down the right hand margin for games in PGN or Chessbase format or on the The Week in Chess Download page.
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Main Stories and Dossiers
English Open Championships 2026
English Open Championships 2026 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Mon Nov 2 13:23:00 2026)
The English Open Championships 2026 took place Sat 24th October to Sun 1st November 2026. English Open 2026: Gawain Maroroa Jones won with 7½/9 a point clear of Michael Adams, Brandon Gi Clarke and Daniel W Gormally on 6½. English Women's 2026: Elmira Mirzoeva won with 7½/9 a point clear of Anusha Subramanian on 6½. Read more ....
English Open Championships 2026 (Peterborough ENG)
Sat 24th Oct 2026 - Sun 1st Nov 2026 -
Official Site - Results
English Open 2026 (9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Open | Live Open
English Women's 2026 (9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Women
English Rapid Open 2026 (11 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:15m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games Rapid Open
English Rapid Open Women (11 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:15m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games Rapid Women
English Blitz Open 2026 (11 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:3m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Blitz Open
English Blitz Open Women (14 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:3m+2spm) - Games in PGN: Games Blitz Women
English Rapid Open TB (2 players 4 Rds Match Indiv TC:15m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games Rapid TB
English Open +50 2026 (7 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games 50+
English Open +65 2026 (7 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games 65+
Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown 2026
Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown 2026 Games and results
Mark Crowther (Fri Oct 30 13:53:00 2026)
The Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown took place Tue 27th Oct 2026 to 29th Oct 2026. The idea of the event is to have increasing scores from day 1 to day 3 so that the scoring is volatile and likely there will be something to play for right to the end. Javokhir Sindarov won the event with a draw in the final round, if Praggnanandhaa had won he would have taken the event. That said the players finished in exactly the order they would have finished with standard scoring. Read more ....
Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown 2026 (Saint Louis USA)
Tue 27th Oct 2026 - Thu 29th Oct 2026 -
Official Site
Clutch Chess: Champions (4 players 18 Rds 6RR Indiv TC:10m+5spm) - Games in PGN: Games
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 ....
41st European Club Cup 2026 (Budva MNE)
Sat 17th Oct 2026 - Fri 23rd Oct 2026 -
Official Site - Results
41st ECC Open 2026 (7 Rds EurC Club TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Open
30th ECC Women 2026 (7 Rds League Club TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Women
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 ....
ch-USA 2026 (Saint Louis USA)
Fri 9th Oct 2026 - Fri 23rd Oct 2026 -
Official Site - Live
ch-USA 2026 (12 players 11 Rds SRR Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games
ch-USA w 2026 (12 players 11 Rds SRR Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Women
ch-USA TB 2026 (2 players 2 Rds Match Indiv TC:15m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games
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 ....
46th World Chess Olympiad 2026 (Samarkand UZB)
Wed 16th Sep 2026 - Sun 27th Sep 2026 -
Official Site - Results
46th Olympiad 2026 (11 Rds Olym Team TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games
46th Olympiad Women 2026 (11 Rds Olym Team TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Women
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 ....
3rd FIDE Olympiad for People with Disabilities (Samarkand UZB)
Fri 11th Sep 2026 - Thu 17th Sep 2026 -
Official Site - Results
FIDE Disabilities Olym (7 Rds Olym Team TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games
TWIC is 32. First issue 17th September 1994.


