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FIDE World Senior Championships 2026: Six rounds left, four titles at stake

♟️ Five rounds have been played at the FIDE World Senior Chess Championships 2026 in Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia, and the competition is taking shape across all four categories. Some of the pre-tournament favourites are living up to expectations, while others have already dropped valuable points. With six rounds still to come, there is plenty of chess left to play.

The standout performance of the first five rounds belongs to WGM Galina Strutinskaya, the only player in the event with a perfect score. ✨

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♟ Mikhail Tal – the eighth World Champion and the Magician from Riga, famous for his imaginative combinations and fearless attacking style.

As we look ahead to the Salesforce FIDE World Championship 2026, we continue The Legacy of Champions – a series celebrating the legends whose ideas, achievements, and unforgettable games shaped chess into the game we know today.

♟ Salesforce FIDE World Championship 2026
🇮🇳 Gukesh D 🆚 Javokhir Sindarov 🇺🇿
📍 Geneva, Switzerland 🇨🇭
🗓 Games: November 24 – December 12, 2026

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♟ World Junior Blitz Championship 2026: Pranav V and Valeria Kleymenova claim titles in 🇦🇪 Al Ain

Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa bin Sultan bin Shakhbout Al Nahyan, President of the Asian Chess Federation, Chairman of Al Ain Chess & Mind Games Club and Chairman of the Organising Committee, crowned the World Junior Blitz champions at a ceremony held at Danat Al Ain Resort. The ceremony was attended by FIDE representative Javier Ochoa de Echagüen of Spain, President of the Ibero-American Chess Federation, alongside chess federation presidents, officials and representatives of the participating delegations.

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👑♟ The young king faces his toughest challenge

From prodigious talent to the youngest World Champion in history, Gukesh Dommaraju has enjoyed a meteoric rise to the summit of the chess world. Now, as he prepares to defend his crown against Uzbekistan’s rising star Javokhir Sindarov, the Indian prodigy faces perhaps the greatest challenge of his career: rediscovering his best form.

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♟ Salesforce FIDE World Championship 2026
🇮🇳 Gukesh D 🆚 Javokhir Sindarov 🇺🇿
📍 Geneva, Switzerland 🇨🇭
🗓 Games: November 24 – December 12, 2026

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A lot has changed since this moment! ♟️

Back then, 🇦🇷 Faustino Oro was the youngest International Master in history, making the ceremonial first move on the board of then-reigning World Champion 🇨🇳 Ding Liren.

Today, Faustino is the second-youngest Grandmaster in history. ✨️️