Grand Chess Tour organizers have announced the list of players who will participate in the first three tournaments of the 2026 tour — in Poland, Romania, and Croatia.

Super Rapid & Blitz Poland:

• Gukesh Dommaraju
• Fabiano Caruana
• Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
• Alireza Firouzja
• Wesley So
• Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Wildcard)
• Vladimir Fedoseev (Wildcard)
• Javokhir Sindarov (Wildcard)
• Hans Niemann (Wildcard)
• Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Wildcard)

Super Chess Classic Romania:

• Gukesh Dommaraju
• Fabiano Caruana
• Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
• Levon Aronian
• Praggnanandhaa R
• Vincent Keymer
• Anish Giri
• Alireza Firouzja
• Wesley So
• Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Wildcard)

Super Rapid & Blitz Croatia:

• Gukesh Dommaraju
• Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
• Levon Aronian
• Praggnanandhaa R
• Vincent Keymer
• Anish Giri
• Alireza Firouzja
• Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Wildcard)
• Ivan Saric (Wildcard)
• Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Wildcard)

Poland event features a $200,000 prize pool and will be held from May 3 to 10. Tournament in Romania is scheduled two days later, from May 12 to 24, with a $475,000 prize. Croatia event will take place from June 29 to July 6 and features a $200,000 prize pool.

Grand Chess Tour 2026 will take place in Poland, Romania, Croatia and USA from May 3 to August 28. The event features a $2,000,000 prize pool across 2 Classical tournaments, 3 Rapid & Blitz events and the Grand Finals. American GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2025 edition of the Tour winning around $290,000.

Credit: Lennart Ootes