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Season Four of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League

Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2026 Start

The 4th Season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League takes place in Bengaluru, 5th to 13th September 2026. Firouzja, Sindarov, Carlsen, MVL star.

Carlsen wins the Chess event in the Esports World Cup

Esports World Cup 2026 Final

Whatever you think of the format and razzamatazz of the chess event of the Esports World Cup, Carlsen just killed it, winning easily without the loss of a game, he defeated Denis Lazavik 2 sets to 0 in the final. Nakamura finished 3rd after beating Firouzja who quit their match after technical issues.

46th World Chess Olympiad 2026

46th World Chess Olympiad 2026 Games and Results

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 | Live Open

46th Olympiad Women 2026 (11 Rds Olym Team TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games Women | Live Women

3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities 2026

3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities 2026 Games and Results

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

Clutch Chess: The Legends 2026

Clutch Chess: The Legends 2026 Games and results

Clutch Chess: The Legends was a match between Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov held over three days at the Saint Louis Chess Club. The games were Chess960. There were two time controls: Rapid (Games 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 and 10) 25+10spm and Blitz (3, 4, 7, 8, 11 and 12) 5m+3spm. The Clutch Chess is all about the scoring; day one has a normal score, day 2 has double day 1 and day 3 is triple day one, the idea being that there is a building excitement. There was also bonus money, up to $24,000 that rolled over to the final two games if there was a draw. I cannot currently display Chess960 games, Topalov won the match 16-8, The rapid portion saw Topalov win a rapid game on day one and Kasparov on day 3, the rest were drawn. Topalov won 5 of the 6 blitz games only losing one, on the first day. Read more ....

Clutch Chess: The Legends 2026 (Saint Louis USA)
Fri 11th Sep 2026 - Mon 14th Sep 2026 - Official Site

Clutch Chess: The Legends (2 players 12 Rds Match Indiv TC:25m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games

Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2026

Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2026 Games and results

The Tech Mahindra Global Chess League took place in Bengaluru, India 5th-13th September 2026. 6 Teams played over 10 rounds in rapid (10m+2spm) chess. The winners were Ganges Grandmasters with Ian Nepomniachtchi as the Legend and Levon Aronian as their board 2. Magnus Carlsen's Alpine APL Pipers finished second after losing the final. Nepomniachtchi was allowed to escape a lost position against Magnus Carlsen and turned it round for a win. FYERS American Gambits finished in 3rd after beating CheQ Mumba Masters. Read more ....

TechM Global Chess League 2026 (Bengaluru IND)
Sat 5th Sep 2026 - Sun 13th Sep 2026 - Official Site

TechM GCL 2026 (6 players 10 Rds DRR Club TC:20m) - Games in PGN: Games League

TechM GCL Final 2026 (2 players 2 Rds Match Club TC:20m) - Games in PGN: Games Final

TechM GCL 3rd-4th 2026 (2 players 2 Rds Match Club TC:20m) - Games in PGN: Games 3rd-4th

Tournaments for Saturday 3rd October 2026 combined with links to official website, live coverage and PGN file
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