2026 World Championships News

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Gukesh D

Magnus Carlsen

Fabiano Caruana

Hikaru Nakamura

Ian Nepomniachtchi

Nodirbek Abdusattorov

Arjun Erigaisi

Ding Liren

Wesley So

Wei Yi

Viswanathan Anand

Sergey Karjakin

Leinier Dominguez Perez

Praggnanandhaa R

Anish Giri

Alireza Firouzja

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Jan-Krzysztof Duda

Parham Maghsoodloo

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Quang Liem Le

Levon Aronian

Veselin Topalov

Teimour Radjabov

Vidit Santosh Gujrathi

Vincent Keymer

Yu Yangyi

Alexander Grischuk

Richard Rapport

Vladislav Artemiev

Alexey Sarana

Daniil Dubov

Wang Hao

M. Amin Tabatabaei

Javokhir Sindarov

YES

Mercedes

Ferrari

Redbull racing

Mclaren

Aston Martin

Audi

Cadillac

Williams

Racing bulls

Haas

YES

Will the venue be in Europe?

Will any game feature an opening move other than 1. e4 or 1. d4?

Will White win more games than Black?

Will the match be decided before Game 14?

Will a player who loses a game eventually win the match?

Will there be a streak of 4 or more consecutive draws?

Will the match be tied (e.g., 1–1 or 2–2) after the first four games?

Will any game exceed 100 moves?

Will there be 4 or more decisive (non-draw) games in the classical portion?

There will be more decisive games than the previous Championship (5)

Will the match be decided by a margin of 2 or more points in the classical portion?

Will Magnus Carlsen provide official commentary for at least one game? (Stays on any stream for >= 45 minutes)

Will Game 1 or Game 2 be a decisive result (not a draw)?

Will Gukesh win a game immediately following a loss?

Gukesh retains his WC title

Will it be decided by tiebreaks?

Will the match begin before November 1, 2026?

YES

Above 0

Above 2

Above 4

Above 6

Above 8

Above 10

Sindarov +1

Decided by tiebreaks

Sindarov +2

Gukesh +1

Sindarov +3

Gukesh +2

Sindarov +4

Gukesh +3

Sindarov +5

Gukesh +4

Gukesh +5

YES

Draw

Gukesh Dommaraju win

Javokhir Sindarov win

Draw

Gukesh Dommaraju win