Check out our FIDE Candidates Round 3 Recap! GM Javokhir Sindarov and GM Fabiano Caruana are now tied for 1st place in the Open, while GM Bibisara Assaubayeva and GM Kateryna Lagno are also sharing the lead in the Women's tournament. Sindarov and Caruana will face each other in Round 4. Follow all the games in our broadcasts, starting today, 2026-04-01 12:45 UTC.

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Replay some of the most exciting Candidates Round 2 games in our FIDE Candidates Annotations study by GM Axel Bachmann and WGM Petra Papp, including Wei vs Praggnanandhaa and Lagno vs Zhu. We will update the study throughout the event with two new annotated games per round from each Candidates Tournament.

Read our FIDE Candidates Round 2 Recap and find out what happened on the second day, which ended with eight draws! Round 3 starts today, 2026-03-31 12:45 UTC. Follow all the games in our broadcasts.

Check out our FIDE Candidates Annotations by four-time Paraguayan Champion GM Axel Bachmann and former Hungarian Women's Champion WGM Petra Papp. They have annotated four Round 1 games for you to learn from, including Caruana vs Nakamura and Zhu vs Tan.

Find out what happened on the first day of the FIDE Candidates 2026 in our Round 1 Recap! GM Fabiano Caruana defeated GM Hikaru Nakamura, GM Javokhir Sindarov won against GM Andrey Esipenko, and GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa beat GM Anish Giri, as the Women's tournament saw draws on all four boards.

Eight women and girls have qualified for the Queens' Online Chess Festival Finals on Lichess! Watch all the games now in our broadcast and read more about the event organised by the FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess in our announcement.