Organizers of the Grand Chess Tour announced the lineup and dates for the first tournament of the 2026 tour. The Super Rapid & Blitz Poland 2026 will feature 10 players from 6 countries, and will take place from May 4 to May 10.

Full list of participants:

  • 🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov
  • 🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana
  • 🇺🇸 Wesley So
  • 🇫🇷 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
  • 🇫🇷 Alireza Firouzja
  • 🇮🇳 Gukesh Dommaraju (Wildcard)
  • 🇺🇸 Hans Niemann (Wildcard)
  • 🇸🇮 Vladimir Fedoseev (Wildcard)
  • 🇵🇱 Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Wildcard)
  • 🇵🇱 Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Wildcard)

The event consists of two tournaments in single Round-Robin format. Points for both tournaments are summed up in a single leaderboard. Rapid and Blitz tournaments feature 25+10 and 5+2 time controls respectively. Rapid will take place from May 5th to 7th and Blitz from May 8th to 9th. The event features a $200,000 prize pool.

The Grand Chess Tour is a premier global circuit of international tournaments. The 2026 edition of a tour will take place in Poland, Romania, Croatia and USA from May 4 to August 28. Slovenian GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the 2025 edition of the Poland event.

Credit: Lennart Ootes