19.9.26

Chess digest, Sep. 16–19: Kyrgyzstan stun Brazil, Gukesh slips under 2700, Poland take gold | Chess World Digest

Chess digest, Sep. 16–19: Kyrgyzstan stun Brazil, Gukesh slips under 2700, Poland take gold — Neodrop

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Chess digest, Sep. 16–19: Kyrgyzstan stun Brazil, Gukesh slips under 2700, Poland take gold

Three rounds into the Samarkand Olympiad the leaders are still perfect while Kyrgyzstan and Singapore upset Brazil and Norway and Argentina and Iran take down Ukraine and France in the women's event, Gukesh spends a day below 2700, Poland win the Olympiad for People with Disabilities, and Magnus Carlsen names Javokhir Sindarov the favourite for November.

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Coverage window: after 10:45 Sofia time on September 16 through 10:45 on September 19, 2026.

Three rounds of the 46th Chess Olympiad are in the books, and the top of both tables has held. Twenty-one teams in the open section and twenty in the women's event have won all three of their matches in Samarkand. 1 2 The shocks have come from further down the list: Thailand's IM Prin Laohawirapap beat India's Arjun Erigaisi in round one, 79th-seeded Kyrgyzstan beat 31st-seeded Brazil in round three, and in the women's event Argentina and Iran beat Ukraine and France. 3 Gukesh Dommaraju spent a day below 2700 for the first time since 2022, Poland won the Olympiad for People with Disabilities, and Magnus Carlsen named Javokhir Sindarov the favourite for November's world-title match. 4 5 6

Open section: the favourites keep winning, the shocks come from below

The Olympiad is an eleven-round Swiss for national teams, played over four boards per match. A match win is worth two points, a draw one, and board points separate teams only when their match points are level. 3

Round one on Wednesday went to form in the team results, with the top 30 seeds all winning, and produced a pile of individual upsets underneath. Laohawirapap, a Thai international master born in 2006, beat Arjun Erigaisi, India's board two. 3 Botswana, the 133rd seed, held Brazil to a 2–2 draw. Afghanistan's Homayoun Mohtaat, an untitled 54-year-old rated 1928, beat Uzbekistan 2's 16-year-old grandmaster Khumoyun Begmuratov. Malta's Matthew Portelli beat Hungary's Benjamin Gledura, and Palestine's Ahmad Abdel Wahab, rated 2066, beat Austria's Felix Blohberger. 3

Round two was tighter. El Salvador, the 94th seed, beat 44th-seeded Cuba 2½–1½ for the only team upset of the day, while all of the top 28 seeds won their matches. 4 India beat Indonesia 2½–1½, and the board three draw that Gukesh took against IM Satria Duta Cahaya dropped him below 2700 on the live rating list for the first time since he crossed it in 2022. 4 Uzbekistan, the United States, the Netherlands and Hungary all won by a single point against opponents seeded between 51st and 58th, and Estonia's IM Ilja Sirosh, roughly 250 rating points the lower-rated, beat Ukraine's veteran grandmaster Vasyl Ivanchuk. 4

Friday's third round brought the two biggest team results of the week. Kyrgyzstan, the 79th seed with no grandmasters on its four boards, beat Brazil after drawing the top three games and winning on board four, where the untitled Timur Daudov (2063) beat IM Diego Di Berardino. Singapore, the 50th seed, beat 21st-seeded Norway 2½–1½, with GM Tin Jingyao converting a rook endgame against Johan-Sebastian Christiansen. 1 Norway are playing without Magnus Carlsen, Aryan Tari and Jon Ludvig Hammer. 3

Among the leaders, the Netherlands, the United States and Hungary each had to recover from a lost board to win 2½–1½, against Australia, Denmark and Slovenia. Germany and Armenia won by the same score with one win and three draws, against Uzbekistan 2 and Sweden, and France beat Kazakhstan 3½–½. 1 Australia's Bobby Cheng was a draw away from tying the Dutch match when Anish Giri converted an endgame with bishops of opposite colours; Chess.com made that game its Game of the Day. 2 The United States lost Awonder Liang on board four for the second round running, and Fabiano Caruana escaped with a draw against Jonas Buhl Bjerre before Wesley So and Hans Niemann won. Hungary's Richard Rapport, playing his first game of the event, lost in 24 moves to Anton Demchenko after 23.Kh2? met 23...Qh4. 1 Lithuania held 11th-seeded England to 2–2, and Moldova and Belgium took draws off Croatia and Iran. 1

Anish Giri and Bobby Cheng at the board

Anish Giri (left) against Australia's Bobby Cheng in round three; Giri's win in the opposite-coloured-bishop endgame was Chess.com's Game of the Day. Photo: Rafal Oleksiewicz / FIDE, via ChessBase.

Gukesh answered the rating question the next day, beating Italy's Sabino Brunello on board four to return to 2702 on the live list, and he put the first round down partly to organisation: he said India waited six hours for a hotel room at the start of the event. 2 He also said the decision to play on boards three and four rather than board one was his own, and that the team agreed because it gave India the best chance of winning the tournament. 2 Ding Liren, playing his first tournament outside China since the 2024 world championship, won his second game in three rounds, against Arkadij Naiditsch. 2

Gukesh Dommaraju being interviewed after his round-three win

Gukesh Dommaraju after his round-three win over Italy's Sabino Brunello, which took his live rating back to 2702. Photo: Rafal Oleksiewicz / FIDE, via ChessBase.

After three rounds 21 teams share a perfect 6/6, and tiebreak alone separates them, with 50th-seeded Singapore the lowest-ranked of the group. 1 Round four pairs Uzbekistan with Turkiye, the United States with Ukraine, Spain with India, Serbia with China, Germany with Poland and Greece with the Netherlands. 2

Women's event: Georgia drop a point, then two top seeds fall

Round one brought almost total dominance: nine of the top ten seeds won 4–0, and only Germany, the 10th seed, dropped half points on the way to a 3–1 win over 104th-seeded Malta. 7 England's board one was 11-year-old FM Bodhana Sivanandan, who beat Barbados's Hannah Wilson, and Sweden's board one was 63-year-old GM Pia Cramling, a three-time individual gold medallist. 3

The first leading team to drop a match point was Georgia. The second seeds drew 2–2 with 48th-seeded Montenegro in round two, and both of Montenegro's wins came against players rated more than 250 points higher. Alena Skvortsova (2143) beat Bela Khotenashvili (2435) after sacrificing a pawn to open lines against the Georgian king, and Aleksandra Milovic (2068) beat Lela Javakhishvili (2424), who had been winning. 8 Two more top-40 seeds failed to win: the Czech Republic, seeded 36th, were held 2–2 by the United Arab Emirates, the 83rd seed, and 37th-seeded Slovakia lost to 84th-seeded Tajikistan, while 93rd-seeded Kenya beat 46th-seeded Norway. 8 Sivanandan won again, beating Nigeria's Deborah Quickpen, and England beat Nigeria 3½–½. 8

Alena Skvortsova during a game in Samarkand

Alena Skvortsova, the 2143-rated Montenegrin whose win over Bela Khotenashvili was one of two that held the second seeds to a 2–2 draw in round two. Photo: Michal Walusza / FIDE, via ChessBase.

Friday's round three produced the first defeats of top-ten seeds. Sixth-seeded Ukraine lost 3–1 to 38th-seeded Argentina, and eighth-seeded France lost to 30th-seeded Iran. 2 India, the defending champions and top seeds, beat Greece 3½–½, and the top board carried a week-old score: Koneru Humpy had lost the deciding game of the Global Chess League final to Stavroula Tsolakidou in Bengaluru, and in Samarkand she built an overwhelming position against the same opponent and converted it. 2 Poland were the only team in the top-10 matches to win 4–0, beating Latvia; Kazakhstan beat Slovenia 3½–½, China beat Turkiye 3–1, and hosts Uzbekistan beat Indonesia by the same score. 2 Twenty teams are still on 6/6 going into round four. 2

Poland take gold at the Olympiad for People with Disabilities

The 3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities finished on Thursday after seven rounds, with a record 41 teams and, for the first time, alongside the main Olympiad in the same city. 5

Poland won it with 13 match points from a possible 14, unbeaten across seven rounds after dropping a point in the first of them, and closed with a 3½–½ win over the Philippines in which Marcin Molenda drew on the top board and Pawel Piekielny, Aleksander Czerwonski and Julia Salamon won. 5 Cuba took silver on 12 match points by beating the Czech Republic 2½–1½, and hosts Uzbekistan 1 took bronze on 11 with the same margin over Israel. 5 "It was definitely a rollercoaster. The first round, losing the points. After that, winning every single match," Molenda said. 5

Viswanathan Anand making the ceremonial first move

Viswanathan Anand, FIDE's interim president, starts the final round on the top board of Poland's match against the Philippines, with the pairing and the players' ratings on the venue screen behind him. Poland won 3½–½ to take the title. Photo: Mark Livshitz and Rafal Oleksiewicz, via ChessBase.

The board medals went to FM Sargis Sargissyan of IPCA on board one, IM Pawel Piekielny of Poland on board two, IM Aleksander Czerwonski of Poland on board three, Darry Bernardo of the Philippines on board four and Michal Racis of IBCA on board five. 5 Selbi Kakishova scored 6/7 on board five for Uzbekistan 1, taking a board silver to go with the team bronze. 5 The fourth edition will again run alongside the main Olympiad, in Abu Dhabi in 2028. 5

Carlsen calls Sindarov the favourite for Geneva

Magnus Carlsen gave a 35-minute interview to the Indian podcaster Prakhar Gupta during the Global Chess League in Bengaluru, and Chess.com published it on September 16. 6 Asked to predict the winner of the World Championship match between Gukesh and Javokhir Sindarov in November, Carlsen said: "I would say at the moment Sindarov is probably a pretty significant favorite," adding that he expects Sindarov to win because "he's somewhat better-rounded and he is more objective in his evaluations." 6

Carlsen was blunt about the champion's form. "I don't think it's a secret to most people that his evaluations are way too optimistic," he said of Gukesh, and of Gukesh's standing he said: "To argue that he's anywhere close to being the best player in the world now is not realistic." 6 Gukesh's rating has fallen from a peak of 2794 in October 2024 to 2703 on the September 2026 list, and he is ranked 32nd in the world. 6

Carlsen ranked the leading young players with Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu first, then Sindarov, Alireza Firouzja, Arjun Erigaisi and Gukesh, and said that none of them is consistent enough yet to separate from the others. 6 On his own future, he said he is "more and more certain that I'm never coming back" to the classical World Championship, and that he wants to keep playing "a few more years, and then we'll see." 6

The match runs from November 22 to December 13 at the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny, above Lake Geneva, over up to 14 classical games with a $2.5 million net prize fund; the first game is on November 24. 9

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India's hotel complaint, and FIDE's answer. India's captain Srinath Narayanan posted on September 15 that his team had landed five hours earlier with no rooms allotted and no date for getting them; Gukesh said after round three that the first round went badly for organisational reasons and that the situation had improved. FIDE replied that accommodation sits with the local organising committee, and that it had found additional resources to reimburse teams that had to book their own rooms, for up to three days. 3
Pakistan forfeited all four boards against Israel in round one, so the match was decided without a move being played. Players from several federations, Iran's in particular, have refused to start games against Israeli opponents. 3
Three 3+0 Thursday tournaments on September 17. FM Artin Ashraf won the first with 10/11 after ten straight wins that included Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Alexey Sarana and Parham Maghsoodloo; GM Alexey Sarana took the second on 9.5/11, and GM Jeffery Xiong the third on 9.5 after a 9–0 start. The three weekly Swiss events for titled players carry a combined $3,000 prize fund. 10

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Date & time (Europe/Sofia)	Event & location	Checkpoint
September 19, 13:00	46th Chess Olympiad, Samarkand	Round 4, with Uzbekistan–Turkiye, United States–Ukraine and Spain–India on the top boards. 2
September 20–21, 13:00	46th Chess Olympiad, Samarkand	Rounds 5 and 6, both starting at 3 p.m. local time. 11
September 22	46th Chess Olympiad, Samarkand	Rest day. 11
September 23–26, 13:00	46th Chess Olympiad, Samarkand	Rounds 7 to 10. 11
September 26–27	FIDE General Assembly, Samarkand	The Congress week closes with the presidential election and the vote for four elected vice-presidents. 12
September 27, 09:00	46th Chess Olympiad, Samarkand	Round 11 starts at 11 a.m. local time, with the closing ceremony later that day. 11
November 22–December 13	Salesforce World Championship Match, Cologny, Switzerland	Gukesh D defends the title against Javokhir Sindarov over up to 14 games, the first of them on November 24. 9

References

1ChessBase: Samarkand R3 (open) — Top ten stay perfect after tense third round

2Chess.com: Giri Saves Netherlands; Argentina, Iran Upset Ukraine, France In Women's

3Chess.com: Thai IM Upsets Indian Number-2 As Favorites Prevail

4Chess.com: Gukesh Drops Under 2700 As India Beats Indonesia

5ChessBase: Poland crowned champions at Olympiad for People with Disabilities

6Chess.com: Carlsen Calls Sindarov 'Significant Favorite,' Gives Verdict On Gukesh

7ChessBase: Samarkand R1 (women) — Nine teams from the top ten score 4-0 victories

8ChessBase: Samarkand R2 (women) — Georgia only manage a draw against Montenegro

9ChessBase: Salesforce FIDE World Championship Match 2026

10Chess.com: Dominant Starts For Ashraf, Sarana, Xiong, Bring 3 0 Thursday Wins

1146th FIDE Chess Olympiad: schedule

12ChessBase: FIDE elections 2026 announced

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17.9.26

Chess digest, Sep. 12–16: Samarkand Olympiad opens, Ganges Grandmasters crowned, Topalov beats Kasparov | Chess World Digest

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Chess digest, Sep. 12–16: Samarkand Olympiad opens, Ganges Grandmasters crowned, Topalov beats Kasparov

The 46th Chess Olympiad opens in Samarkand with a record 400 teams, the Ganges Grandmasters win their first Global Chess League title, and Veselin Topalov beats Garry Kasparov 16-8 in Saint Louis.

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Coverage window: after 10:45 Sofia time on September 12 through 10:45 on September 16, 2026.

The 46th Chess Olympiad opened in Samarkand on Tuesday evening, and its first round starts today at 3 p.m. local time, 1 p.m. in Sofia. 1 2 A record 400 teams are entered in Uzbekistan, up from the 380 that went to Budapest in 2024. 3 Before that opening, two of the season's live events finished: the Ganges Grandmasters won their first Global Chess League title in Bengaluru, 4 and Veselin Topalov beat Garry Kasparov 16–8 in Saint Louis. 5

Samarkand opens the largest Olympiad yet

The opening ceremony filled the Boqiy Shahar amphitheatre, an open-air stage inside Samarkand's Eternal City complex, with more than 2,000 spectators on September 15. The programme ran for nearly two hours and put more than 100 musicians and over 200 dancers and singers on stage. Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov read greetings from the President of Uzbekistan, and FIDE interim president Viswanathan Anand followed with a five-minute address. Zhu Chen, the ninth women's world champion, and Uzbek grandmaster Rustam Kasimdzhanov drew the colours that decide which teams have white on first board in the opening round. 1

Delegations and spectators seated in the Boqiy Shahar amphitheatre during the opening ceremony of the 46th Chess Olympiad

Members of national delegations in the amphitheatre on September 15. Photo: Rafal Oleksiewicz and Michal Walusza, via ChessBase.

The tournament is the biggest the Olympiad has held: 208 teams in the open section and 192 in the women's event, 400 in all, against the previous record of 380 set in Budapest in 2024. Eleven rounds run from September 16 to 27, with games at 3 p.m. local time and one rest day on September 22. 3 2 Each match is played over four boards under the standard Olympiad time control of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves and 30 minutes for the rest, with a 30-second increment from move one. 6

India defend both titles, having won the open and women's events in Budapest. Hosts Uzbekistan, the surprise winners in 2022, start third in the open seeding behind the United States and India, while India, Georgia, Kazakhstan and China head the women's field. 6 India's captain Srinath Narayanan told FIDE that continuity and depth are what his team has going for it: "Defending an Olympiad title is always a tough challenge. But this Indian team has a lot going for it." 3

Samarkand also hosts the FIDE Congress from September 20 to 27, with the General Assembly and its elections on September 26 and 27. 7 The 3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities, a record 41 teams representing players with visual, hearing and physical impairments, was already under way in the city. 3

Ganges Grandmasters take the Global Chess League

The fourth season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League ended on September 13 with a two-leg final in Bengaluru. The Ganges Grandmasters, led on the icon board by Ian Nepomniachtchi, drew the first leg 3–3 and won the second 4–2, taking the title 7–5 on aggregate and leaving defending champions Alpine APL Pipers second. Third place went to FYERS American Gambits, who beat CheQ Mumba Masters by 3.5–2.5 and then 4–2. 4 8

Magnus Carlsen during the second leg of the Global Chess League final in Bengaluru

Magnus Carlsen during the second leg, with the venue screen beside him showing the board on which Stavroula Tsolakidou's game against Humpy Koneru finished 0–1. Photo: ChessBase India, via ChessBase.

The decisive games came in the second leg, which Ganges played with the black pieces on all six boards. Levon Aronian had given Ganges the lead in the first leg by beating Anish Giri, and Volodar Murzin levelled it for the Pipers by beating Leon Luke Mendonca, so the teams returned level at 3–3. In the second leg Nepomniachtchi was heading for defeat against Carlsen when the Norwegian played 28.Qxb5?; Nepomniachtchi answered with the bishop sacrifice 29...Bxf2+, took over the position and won after 39 moves. 4 8

The match point came on the women's boards. Stavroula Tsolakidou was under pressure against Humpy Koneru until Humpy chose 44.Kb2?? in a time scramble, the only losing king move; Tsolakidou converted the win and sealed the title. "It's special winning against the defending champions; now we gotta win it ourselves next year," she said. The 25-year-old Greek took the Player of the Tournament award, her team-mate Polina Shuvalova scored 7/10 for the highest individual total of the season, and Aronian credited coach Adhiban Baskaran's strategy with steering the team through the final. The champions take the largest share of the league's $1 million prize fund. 8 4 9

Topalov beats Kasparov 16–8

Veselin Topalov won the 2026 Clutch Chess: The Legends Chess960 match at the Saint Louis Chess Club, finishing 16–8 ahead of Garry Kasparov after the third and final day on September 13. The match carried a $144,000 prize fund, with wins worth one point on day one, two points on day two and three points on the final day, plus $1,000, $2,000 and $3,000 bonuses for each win, carried over to the last two games whenever a game was drawn. 10 11

The blitz games decided the match. Across the six blitz games Topalov scored 11 points to Kasparov's one, winning five of them; his only blitz loss came on the first day, and he won both blitz games on the final day, when each win was worth three points. Kasparov kept the match alive by winning the first rapid game of the last day, cutting the lead to 8.5–6.5, but Topalov then drew game ten and won game eleven to reach 13 points and clinch with a game to spare. Topalov finished with $90,000, the $70,000 winner's share plus bonus money; Kasparov took $54,000. 5 10 11

"I try to be practical. I am not very good in time scrambles. Garry tries to find the best moves. It is just not practical," Topalov said of a match in which clock handling mattered as much as the Chess960 starting positions. Kasparov, who turns 64 next year, left the door open to another match: "I wasn't quite at my best in the openings, but today I played better and I still think I could have played even better." 5 11

Antón Guijarro wins Madrid unbeaten, Oro is third

David Antón Guijarro won the second Legends & Prodigies tournament in Madrid, which ended with its tenth round on September 12. Antón Guijarro scored 7.5/10 without losing a game, five wins and five draws, finishing a point and a half clear and posting a performance rating of 2756. He won both of his games against Diego Flores and Ivan Sokolov, added a win over José Cuenca Jiménez, and drew the four games he played against Faustino Oro and José Eduardo Martínez Alcántara. 12 13

Faustino Oro and José Eduardo Martínez Alcántara shaking hands before a game

Faustino Oro (left) and José Eduardo Martínez Alcántara before a blitz game earlier in 2026; in Madrid they finished third and second behind David Antón Guijarro. Photo: ChessBase India / Amruta Mokal, via ChessBase.

Martínez Alcántara, the Mexican grandmaster, finished second on 6/10. Oro, playing his first tournament as a grandmaster after FIDE confirmed his title at the start of the month, lost to Diego Flores early in the second half and drew his remaining games to finish third on 5.5/10, with a performance rating of 2618. Sokolov and Flores shared fourth and fifth on 4/10. Both Antón Guijarro and Oro go straight from Madrid to Samarkand: Antón Guijarro plays board one for Spain in his sixth Olympiad, while Oro joins Argentina's team on board five for his first. 12 13

A nine-round B tournament ran alongside the main event, and Argentina's Francisco Fiorito won it with 7/9, a point ahead of Diego Macias Pino and Pablo Almagro Llamas. 12

Geneva gets the world-title match

FIDE confirmed the regulations for the Salesforce FIDE World Championship Match 2026, where Gukesh D defends the title against Javokhir Sindarov from November 22 to December 13. The match goes to the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny, above Lake Geneva, the first world championship match in Switzerland since Brissago in 2004. Both players will be 20 when it begins, which FIDE describes as the youngest world championship contest in history. 14

The programme opens with media day and the opening ceremony on November 22, and the first classical game follows on November 24. Up to 14 classical games run to December 11, with the first player to 7.5 points taking the title, and a tiebreak day on December 12 if the score is level at 7–7. Each player receives $200,000 for every game won and the rest of the $2.5 million prize fund is split equally; a 7.5–6.5 finish with 13 decisive games, or a win in the tiebreaks, pays the champion $1.3 million and the runner-up $1.2 million. 14

Draw offers become legal only after Black's 40th move; before that point, a claim of threefold repetition or stalemate goes to the Chief Arbiter or a Deputy Chief Arbiter. The time control is 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 30 minutes for the rest, with a 30-second increment from move 41. Gukesh won the title in Singapore in December 2024, beating Ding Liren 7.5–6.5 in the final game at 18; Sindarov qualified by winning the 2026 Candidates Tournament in Cyprus with 10/14 and now becomes the first Uzbek to play for the undisputed title. 14

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Salesforce becomes FIDE's title sponsor and technological partner in the federation's biggest contract with a private company to date. The multi-year agreement covers the 2026 and 2028 world title matches and the 2027 Women's World Championship match. 15
Georgios Makropoulos has died at 72. The seven-time Greek champion (1971–1985) led Greece's federation from 1982 to 2021, served as FIDE general secretary from 1990 to 1996 and deputy president from 1996 to 2015, and was acting president from 2015 until 2018. He was elected a FIDE vice president in 2022 and was a candidate for one of four elected vice-president seats at this month's General Assembly. 16
Antarctica will hold its first FIDE-rated tournament. Six players representing the six inhabited continents travel to the ice in January 2027, with rounds on the Antarctic plateau before the event ends at the Geographic South Pole. Nigel Short, the 61-year-old former world championship challenger and FIDE's director for chess development, heads the field. 17
Sina Movahed won his third Titled Tuesday of the year on September 15, beating Vincent Keymer on tiebreaks after both scored 9.5/11. Movahed collected $2,500 for first place; with nobody finishing on 11/11, the perfect-score bounty rises to $4,250 for next week. 18
Hikaru Nakamura won his 66th Bullet Brawl on September 12, finishing on 184 points, 42 clear of IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher. The weekly arena returns on September 19. 19

What to watch next

Date & time (Europe/Sofia)	Event & location	Checkpoint
September 16, 13:00	46th Chess Olympiad, Samarkand	Round 1 in both sections; rounds follow daily at the same time through September 21. 2
September 22	46th Chess Olympiad, Samarkand	Rest day. 2
September 23–26, 13:00	46th Chess Olympiad, Samarkand	Rounds 7 to 10; round 11 starts at 09:00 Sofia on September 27, followed by the closing ceremony. 2
September 26–27	FIDE General Assembly, Samarkand	The presidential election and the vote for four elected vice-president seats, held during the Olympiad. 7
September 19, 19:00	Bullet Brawl, online	The weekly arena returns after Nakamura's 66th win. 19
November 22	Salesforce FIDE World Championship Match, Cologny	Opening ceremony, with the first game of Gukesh D against Javokhir Sindarov on November 24. 14