Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2026

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2026 will be the 88th edition of the annual chess tournament held in Wijk aan Zee. It will be held in 2026. The field of 14 players in the Masters section will include defending champion R Praggnanandhaa and Thai Dai Van Nguyen, the winner of the Tata Steel Challengers 2025.^[1] This is also the youngest ever field of players in the annual Tata Steel chess tournament, with the oldest player, Anish Giri, being only 31 years old.

Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2026

	Masters Champion	Challengers Champion
	TBD	TBD
	TBD	TBD
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Standings

88th Tata Steel Masters, 16 January–1 February 2026, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Total	TB	SB	H2H	TPR
1	Arjun Erigaisi (India)	2773	Does not appear
2	R Praggnanandhaa (India)	2771		Does not appear
3	Anish Giri (Netherlands)	2759			Does not appear
4	Vincent Keymer (Germany)	2755				Does not appear
5	Gukesh Dommaraju (India)	2752					Does not appear
6	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan)	2750						Does not appear
7	Hans Niemann (United States)	2738							Does not appear
8	Javokhir Sindarov (Uzbekistan)	2721								Does not appear
9	Vladimir Fedoseev (Slovenia)	2720									Does not appear
10	Aravindh Chithambaram (India)	2711										Does not appear
11	Jorden van Foreest (Netherlands)	2697											Does not appear
12	Matthias Blübaum (Germany)	2687												Does not appear
13	Thai Dai Van Nguyen (Czechia)	2664													Does not appear
14	Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş (Turkey)	2651														Does not appear