Oceania in November: Eight-Day Club Events and a Geelong Open
Twenty Oceania tournaments are tracked for November 2026, and every one of them is in Australia. Eleven are classical and nine are rapid. The longest events…
OTB Tournaments
Over the board (OTB) classical and rapid tournaments from around the world: the highlights from the past, and what’s coming up next. Sourced from Chess Tournament Calendar.
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West Rand Closed Brings 94 Players to Krugersdorp on Nov. 28
Five tournaments are tracked in Africa for November 2026. Three are classical and two are rapid, spread across South Africa, Nigeria, Algeria and Tunisia. The…
158 Players in Bogotá Open a South American November
South America has 84 tournaments tracked for November 2026, 51 of them rapid and 33 classical. The calendar starts fast, with the biggest field of the month on…
231 Players Set for North American Youth Championship in Mexico City
We are tracking 131 tournaments across North America for November 2026, 98 of them classical and 33 rapid. The events below are a selection weighted toward the…
Bengbu's 198-Player Classical Tops Asia's November Calendar
Asia has 168 tournaments tracked for November 2026, and the classical events at the top of the list are spread from eastern China to western India to the…
Europe in November: 199 Seniors Head to Usedom for Nine Days
European organizers have 330 tournaments on the November 2026 calendar, 145 of them classical and 185 rapid. The classical events below are the ones most worth…
NSW and Perth Opens Anchor a Late-September Oceania Calendar
Oceania's September chess was mostly classical and entirely Australian in the data we track, with the heaviest action stacked into the last week. Two events…
Adly Power Play Rapid Draws 381 as Cairo Hosts Africa's Biggest Field
September's African calendar had 216 tracked events. Several of the most notable were classical tournaments in South Africa, East Africa and Tunisia, while the…
Cascavel, Araguari and Guayaquil Anchor South America's September
Most of South America's 640 tracked events in September were rapid (514, against 123 classical). This look back covers the bigger classical events, and Brazil…
Toronto's 165-Player Rapid Tops North America's September
The largest tournament we tracked in North America in September was a Toronto Chess Centre rapid on Sept. 27, the CYCC & OCC event at Stephen Lewis Secondary…
Chennai's CM Trophy Draws 1,935 Players, Asia's Biggest in September
One-day rapid events in Tamil Nadu produced the largest fields in Asia in September. CHENNAI District - CM TROPHY 2026 - School Boys topped the list with 1,935…
Craiova's 303-Player Rapid Tops Europe's September Fields
Of the 770 tournaments tracked across Europe in September, the largest was the Craiova Grand Prix Rapid 2026, with 303 players registered. It ran September 12…
Australia Fills Oceania's October Slate With 30 Events
October brings 30 tracked tournaments to Oceania, and nearly every one of them is Australian. That's partly a real reflection of where the region's organised…
Sahel Festival's Five Sections Headline Africa's October Slate
Africa's October 2026 calendar carries 22 tracked tournaments, spread from Morocco to Uganda, and the entry that stands out most for sheer scale is in Tunisia.…
Ecuador's Atahualpa Twins Top a 114-Event October
October brings 114 tracked tournaments across South America, and the biggest fields by a clear margin sit in Quito. The II ESCOLAR INTERNACIONAL ATAHUALPA…
Toronto's Junior Championship Tops a Crowded October Slate
October brings 109 tracked tournaments across North America, and the data points to a continent where Canadian and Mexican club events, rather than US majors,…
India's October Grassroots Rush Fills Asia's Calendar
Asia's October slate runs to 181 tracked tournaments, and once again India supplies most of the volume and nearly all of the biggest fields. The month opens…
Bavaria's 340-Player Open Headlines a Packed October in Europe
The Chess Tournament Calendar is tracking 332 events across Europe in October 2026, spanning the usual mix of weekend rapids, club opens, and longer classical…
South Africa Dominates Africa's August Chess Rankings
South Africa supplied most of the biggest fields on the African chess calendar in August 2026, though the single largest turnout came from a women's…
Brazil Dominates South America's Biggest August Fields
August in South America produced 801 tracked tournaments. Ranked by registered players, Brazil's grassroots rapid scene claimed most of the top spots, with…
Mexico and Canada Led North America's Chess Calendar in August 2026
August's tournament calendar in North America tracked 162 events across the continent, though only a portion of them came with reported player counts. Of…
India's Rapid Boom Dominates Asia's Biggest Tournaments in August 2026
August 2026 was a big month for grassroots chess across Asia. Ranking tournaments by registered players tells a clear story: India's district- and state-level…
Barcelona's Sants Open and a Romanian Rapid Lead Europe's August Field
August's tournament calendar in Europe was topped, by registration numbers at least, by a rapid event in Transylvania rather than one of the continent's…
Perth Hosts International Field as Oceania's September Calendar Leans Local
Oceania's tournament calendar for September 2026 is modest in size but heavy on Australian club activity, with 14 tournaments tracked across the continent.…
September's African Chess Calendar: Egypt and Algeria Lead a Grassroots Month
September 2026 brings 13 tracked tournaments across the African continent, a spread that runs from Cairo's rapid scene to a spring weekend in the Eastern Cape.…
Brazil's Youth Circuits Dominate a Packed September Calendar in South America
September 2026 brings 223 tracked tournaments across South America, and the data we have paints a continent where Brazil's regional scholastic and rapid…
September 2026 in North American Chess: Mexico's Independencia Circuit Leads a Packed Calendar
North America's chess calendar for September 2026 runs to 117 tracked tournaments, and the biggest cluster by registration numbers belongs to a single…
September 2026 in Asian Chess: India Dominates a Crowded Calendar
Asia's tournament calendar for September 2026 runs to 263 tracked events, and the numbers we do have point to India as the continent's clear engine room this…
September 2026 in European Chess: Craiova Leads a Crowded Continental Calendar
Europe's tournament calendar keeps rolling into autumn, with 392 events tracked across the continent for September 2026. The list spans everything from…