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Last modified:
12 November 2026
For more information about chess for over-50s, please see our Seniors calendar. Newcomers to 50+ chess should read our Seniors introduction page. We also have pages for specific British Seniors and Irish Seniors news.
The individual World Senior Championships are in progress in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. We have a separate page for reporting on this event while other news remains here.
There is a much stronger and more international field at the 4th Cap Negret Seniors congress (50+ and 65+) at Altea, Spain (near Benidorm) which continues until Saturday over 9 rounds. The chess-results page will enable you to follow progress. There are a few live game broadcasts in each round.
The English Senior Championships concluded recently. Congratulations to the new champions Ian Snape (65+) and Philip J. Crocker (50+). See our British Seniors page for more on this.
Registration has now closed for all sections of the inaugural European Rapid and Blitz Championships which will be played at the Novotel in Monaco from 10-14 January 2027 with a good prize fund for both the 50+ and 65+ with separate women's sections. There is a strong entry from grandmasters for this interesting event.
The 2027 World Senior individual championships will be organised by the Italian federation and played at Orosei on the east coast of Sardinia from 1-14 October. This could prove to be a popular venue.
The ECU calendar says that its 2027 European individual senior championships are scheduled for Chotowa in southern Poland at unspecified dates in July. (The nearest international airport is Katowice, about 36km). This seems rather close in time to the German individual seniors, and the British championships (usually early August) which may affect entries.
The 2027 World Senior Team Championships, which will start just after Easter in Magdeburg, Germany, seems certain to be a very popular event, although the cost of full board at the venue hotel seems rather high and the organisers require all payments to be made in advance.
The European Senior Team Championships are scheduled to start less than two weeks than the previously mentioned event at Acqui Terme, Italy, their dates being 23rd April to 3 May. The Italian organiser, Cristina Rigo, told players at her recent Arco congress that the dates cannot be changed. (See our calendar page to download the official invitation document for both events.)
The ECU and the Italian organisers somehow missed the announcement about the dates for Magdeburg which the German federation made last May, although we several times wrote here about the risk of a clash. FIDE were remiss in not updating their calendar until recently.
As the Scots have suggested, there really should be one person coordinating the dates and venues for the four senior championships run annually by the ECU and FIDE to achieve sensible scheduling of these events twelve months in advance.
The Asian Seniors, which were played over only nine rounds, finished on the 24th of October. The announcement of dates and venue was made far too late for many players who might have been interested and only a few federations were represented. See chess-results if interested in learning more about this.
We have unfortunately not received any information about the USA Senior Championships this year.
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