Candidates Chess Tournament 2026

FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2026 will take place from March 29 to April 15 in Pegeia, Cyprus.

The winner of the Open section will challenge the reigning World Champion, Gukesh Dommaraju, while the winner of the Women's tournament will take on the Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun.

Open section participants:
Fabiano Caruana
Anish Giri
Matthias Bluebaum
Javokhir Sindarov
Wei Yi
Andrey Esipenko
R Praggnanandhaa
Hikaru Nakamura

Women's section participants:
Zhu Jiner
Aleksandra Goryachkina
Divya Deshmukh
Tan Zhongyi
Vaishali Rameshbabu
Kateryna Lagno
Bibisara Assaubayeva
Anna Muzychuk

You can follow the games here.