Check out our Round 5 FIDE Candidates Annotations by former top 20 women's player and four-time Armenian Women's Champion IM / WGM Lilit Mkrtchian and four-time Paraguayan Champion GM Axel Bachmann! Follow all the Round 6 games now in our broadcasts.

GM Javokhir Sindarov defeated GM Hikaru Nakamura to retain his lead in the FIDE Candidates 2026 on 4.5/5, with GM Fabiano Caruana close behind on 3.5/5. Three players are tied for 1st place in the Women's tournament: GM Kateryna Lagno, GM Anna Muzychuk, and GM Zhu Jiner, all on 3/5. Find out what happened in our FIDE Candidates Round 5 Recap!

On the first rest day of the FIDE Candidates 2026, GM Javokhir Sindarov is in sole 1st place after defeating GM Fabiano Caruana in Round 4. GM Bibisara Assaubayeva and GM Anna Muzychuk are in the joint lead of the Women's tournament. Read our FIDE Candidates Round 4 Recap and follow all the games in our broadcasts, continuing tomorrow, 2026-04-03 12:45 UTC.

Check out our FIDE Candidates Round 3 Recap! GM Javokhir Sindarov and GM Fabiano Caruana are now tied for 1st place in the Open, while GM Bibisara Assaubayeva and GM Kateryna Lagno are also sharing the lead in the Women's tournament. Sindarov and Caruana will face each other in Round 4. Follow all the games in our broadcasts, starting today, 2026-04-01 12:45 UTC.

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Replay some of the most exciting Candidates Round 2 games in our FIDE Candidates Annotations study by GM Axel Bachmann and WGM Petra Papp, including Wei vs Praggnanandhaa and Lagno vs Zhu. We will update the study throughout the event with two new annotated games per round from each Candidates Tournament.

Read our FIDE Candidates Round 2 Recap and find out what happened on the second day, which ended with eight draws! Round 3 starts today, 2026-03-31 12:45 UTC. Follow all the games in our broadcasts.