From March 29th to April 15th, 8 players compete at the 2026 candidates tournament in Cyprus for the right to challenge the world champion: GM Hikaru Nakamura, GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Wei Yi, GM Anish Giri, GM Javokhir Sindarov, GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, GM Matthias Blübaum and GM Andrey Esipenko. Games start at 15:30 CET+1 local time, 12:30 UTC time, on March 29th to April 1st, April 3rd to 5th, 7th to 9th, 11th to 12th, 14th to 15th, with tie-breaks on April 16th if required.
Follow the 2026 candidates live games broadcast from the pgn4web live games app, designed for a minimalistic games display, unencumbered by pervasive engine scrutiny.
The pgn4web live games app is available from any web browser just opening the URL and saving a bookmark. The pgn4web live games app allows adding as a web app to most devices, using web browser's commands like "install page as app" or "add to home screen": this is particularly effective for mobile phone and tablet devices.
The pgn4web live games app shows all games from the ongoing round or from the last finished round, in the latter case with an indication when the next round is scheduled. Tapping on the dotted line shows the games list. Shortcut squares allow moving throughout the current game (A1 to H1) and switching to other games (A3 to H3). Similarly, swiping left/right across the chessboard allows moving throughout the game and swiping up/down across the chessboard loads the previous/next game. Clicking shortcut square H8 on a web browser shows details help.
Next to the pgn4web live games app, pgn4web offers alternative live games veiws, such as the live mosaic view showing all games form each round of the candidates.
Anyone following the 2026 candidates tournament with the pgn4web live games app, please email the pgn4web project with any feedback. Please also consider keeping the app for future live broadcast of major events.
2025-11-28
El Llobregat live games with engine analysis and multiple screen layouts
The 6th edition of the El Llobregat open chess tournament runs from November 28th to December 8th in Sant Boi de Llobregat, near Barcelona.
132 players compete in the main open, including GM Pranesh M and GM Cristobal Henriquez Villagra. Complementary activities to the main open are offered, aimed at both chess players and the general population.
pgn4web is used with a custom web app for broadcasting live games. Multiple screen layouts are available, in order to follow several games at once, or to analyze a single game with the stockfish engine.
132 players compete in the main open, including GM Pranesh M and GM Cristobal Henriquez Villagra. Complementary activities to the main open are offered, aimed at both chess players and the general population.
pgn4web is used with a custom web app for broadcasting live games. Multiple screen layouts are available, in order to follow several games at once, or to analyze a single game with the stockfish engine.
2025-08-08
Spanish team championship live games from Linares
The Spanish chess federation is organizing the top division finals of the Spanish team championship in Linares, from August 8th to 14th. Top players include GM Hans Niemann, GM Vladimir Fedoseev, GM Pentala Harikrishna, GM Parham Maghsoodloo, GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac, GM Alexander Grischuk, GM Kirill Alekseenko and GM Frederik Svane.
pgn4web is used for live game broadcast with engine analysis using stockfish. The live pages are delivered from the SIChess platform that developed their interface, including the stockfish integration.
pgn4web is used for live game broadcast with engine analysis using stockfish. The live pages are delivered from the SIChess platform that developed their interface, including the stockfish integration.
2025-05-05
British 4 nations chess league games replay
The British 4 nationsl chess leagueNCL is a team tournament over multiple divisions, arguably the most prestigious team chess event held in the United Kingdom. The 2024/2025 4NCL season run from November to May, with 850 registered players, including GM Michael Adams, GM Gawain Jones and GM Maxime Lagarde.
pgn4web is used for games replay.
pgn4web is used for games replay.
2024-12-11
live games at the Spanish championship in Marbella
From December 11th to 19th the Spanish chess federation is organizing the individual Spanish championship in Marbella, with an open section and a womens section. Top players include GM David Anton Guijarro, GM Alexei Shirov, GM Daniil Yuffa, GM Alan Pichot, GM Jaime Santos Latasa, GM Maksim Chigaev.
pgn4web is used for live game broadcast with engine analysis using stockfish.
pgn4web is used for live game broadcast with engine analysis using stockfish.
2024-07-14
Turkish league live games
The Turkish chess federation is organizing the Turkish chess league, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the İşbank sponsor.
From July 14th to 26th, the event in Ankara includes GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, GM Parham Maghsoodloo, GM Yu Yangyi, GM Amin Tabatabaei, GM Hans Niemann, GM Vladislav Artemiev, GM Kirill Shevchenko, GM Anton Korobov and GM Rauf Mamedov.
pgn4web is used for broadcasting live games.
From July 14th to 26th, the event in Ankara includes GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, GM Parham Maghsoodloo, GM Yu Yangyi, GM Amin Tabatabaei, GM Hans Niemann, GM Vladislav Artemiev, GM Kirill Shevchenko, GM Anton Korobov and GM Rauf Mamedov.
pgn4web is used for broadcasting live games.
2024-05-21
live games at the Salamanca chess festival
From May 21st to 25th the "Salamanca cradle of modern chess" chess festival commemorates how in Salamanca in the year 1497 the newborn rules of modern chess were compiled. These new rules were published by Lucena, a student at the Salamanca University, as part of an incunabulum titled "Art of chess with 150 match games".
The festival includes a wide program of activities, including a master tournament, including GM Kirill Alekseenko, GM Michael Adams and GM Ruslam Ponomariov.
pgn4web is used for broadcasting live games with embedded analysis from the stockfish engine.
The festival includes a wide program of activities, including a master tournament, including GM Kirill Alekseenko, GM Michael Adams and GM Ruslam Ponomariov.
pgn4web is used for broadcasting live games with embedded analysis from the stockfish engine.
2023-10-25
news and games archives for the FIDE grand Swiss in the Isle of Man
The FIDE grand Swiss tournament takes place in the Isle of Man from Wednesday October 25th to Sunday November 5th. Leading players include: GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Hikaru Nakamura, GM Alireza Firouzja, GM Anish Giri, GM Dommaraju Gukesh, GM Richard Rapport, GM Levon Aronian, GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, GM Jan-Krysztof Duda. The event provides two world championship candidates places for the highest placed finishers who needs to qualify.
pgn4web is used for games archives and for embedding chess games within news articles, using the joomla embedchessboard plugin on the tournament site. More information how to display pgn4web chessboards on joomla sites is available from the pgn4web wiki.
pgn4web is used for games archives and for embedding chess games within news articles, using the joomla embedchessboard plugin on the tournament site. More information how to display pgn4web chessboards on joomla sites is available from the pgn4web wiki.
2023-09-16
Spanish team championship live games
The Spanish chess federation is organizing the top division finals of the Spanish team championship in Linares, from September 16th to 22nd. Top players include GM Dommaraju Gukesh, GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, GM Nikita Vitiugov, GM Francisco Vallejo Pons and GM Parham Maghsoodloo.
pgn4web is used for live game broadcast with engine analysis using stockfish.
pgn4web is used for live game broadcast with engine analysis using stockfish.
2023-07-20
British championships games
The 109th British chess championships are held in Leicester, with events running from 20th to 30th July 2023. GM Michael Adams is among the participants of the main tournament.
pgn4web is used for interactive games display.
pgn4web is used for interactive games display.
2022-11-30
El Llobregat live games with engine analysis
The 3rd edition of the El Llobregat open chess tournament runs from November 30th to December 8th in Sant Boi de Llobregat, near Barcelona.
175 players compete in the main open, including GM Francisco Vallejo Pons, GM Yu Yangyi, GM Hans Moke Niemann, GM Ivan Cheparinov, GM Vladimir Fedoseev and GM Kirill Alekseenko. Complementary activities to the main open are offered, aimed at both chess players and the general population.
pgn4web is used for broadcasting live games with embedded analysis from the stockfish engine.
175 players compete in the main open, including GM Francisco Vallejo Pons, GM Yu Yangyi, GM Hans Moke Niemann, GM Ivan Cheparinov, GM Vladimir Fedoseev and GM Kirill Alekseenko. Complementary activities to the main open are offered, aimed at both chess players and the general population.
pgn4web is used for broadcasting live games with embedded analysis from the stockfish engine.
2022-09-12
live games for the Portuguese championship
The Portuguese chess federation organizes the Portuguese national championship in Leiria from Sep 12th to 19th.
pgn4web is used for live games broadcast and a fullscreen page optimized for mobile devices is provided next to the main viewer. The Portuguese chess federation is also using pgn4web for historical games archives.
pgn4web is used for live games broadcast and a fullscreen page optimized for mobile devices is provided next to the main viewer. The Portuguese chess federation is also using pgn4web for historical games archives.
2022-06-08
Prague chess festival games archives
The Prague international chess festival takes place from Wednesday June 8th to Friday June 17th. The event includes several tournaments and a film festival; the masters is a category 18 tournament with GM Vidit Gujrathi, GM Sam Shankland, GM Parham Maghsoodloo, GM Le Quang Liem, GM Francisco Vallejo, GM Harikrishna Pentala, GM David Anton, GM David Navara, GM Salem Saleh and GM Nguyen Thai Dai Van; GM Vincent Keymer is the top seed in the challengers tournament.
pgn4web supports a custom chessboard with figurine notation, providing separate games archives for each tournament.
pgn4web supports a custom chessboard with figurine notation, providing separate games archives for each tournament.
2022-05-18
Croatian teams festival live games with stockfish analysis
From May 18th to 22nd, the Croatian chess federation is organizing their 29th team chess festival in Vodice.
pgn4web is used for a custom live broadcasting page, with carefully optimized responsive layout and with analysis from the stockfish engine; the live broadcasting software is available as part of the project clint (chess live interface) and relies on a javascript port of stockfish.
pgn4web is used for a custom live broadcasting page, with carefully optimized responsive layout and with analysis from the stockfish engine; the live broadcasting software is available as part of the project clint (chess live interface) and relies on a javascript port of stockfish.
2022-03-02
pgn4web recognized with the community choice award by sourceforge
pgn4web has been recognized with the community choice award by sourceforge. The pgn4web project is hosted by sourceforge, the open source software community dedicated to helping open source projects.
The sourceforge community choice honor is awarded to select projects that have reached significant milestones in terms of downloads and user engagement from the sourceforge community.
The sourceforge community choice honor is awarded to select projects that have reached significant milestones in terms of downloads and user engagement from the sourceforge community.
2020-11-13
live games and archives for the Turkish championship
The Turkish championship is taking place from November 13th to 21st 2020, in Antalya. The event is a 10-player single round-robin tournament for the title of 2020 Turkish chess champion.
pgn4web enables the games applet developed by the Turkish chess federation, showing live games broadcasts and games archives for each round. Live video commentary is available next to the live games broadcast.
pgn4web enables the games applet developed by the Turkish chess federation, showing live games broadcasts and games archives for each round. Live video commentary is available next to the live games broadcast.
2020-06-19
Croatian championship live games with stockfish analysis
The 2020 Croatian championship is held in Vinkovci from June 19th to 29th. This event is among the earliest major tournaments played in person following the covid-19 lockdown during spring.
pgn4web is used for a custom live broadcasting page that provides a responsive layout, streams onsite video and integrates analysis from stockfish, a top rated chess engines; the software for the integration of pgn4web and stockfish is available as part of the project clint (chess live interface) and relies on a javascript port of stockfish.
pgn4web is used for a custom live broadcasting page that provides a responsive layout, streams onsite video and integrates analysis from stockfish, a top rated chess engines; the software for the integration of pgn4web and stockfish is available as part of the project clint (chess live interface) and relies on a javascript port of stockfish.
2020-02-12
games archives for the Prague chess festival
The Prague international chess festival runs from Wednesday February 12th 2020 till Saturday 22nd. The event includes several tournaments and a movie festival; the masters tournament hosts GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, GM Nikita Vitiugov, GM Alireza Firouzja, GM Santosh Gujrathi Vidit, GM David Navara and GM Pentala Harikrishna.
pgn4web supports a custom chessboard with figurine notation, providing separate games archives for each tournament and displaying winners of the game of the day award for each round.
pgn4web supports a custom chessboard with figurine notation, providing separate games archives for each tournament and displaying winners of the game of the day award for each round.
2019-12-02
London chess classic news articles and games archives
The 11th London chess classic takes place from Fri 29th Nov to Sun 8th Dec. The main event is the grand chess tour final which starts on Mon Dec 2nd with GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Ding Liren, GM Maxim Vachier-Lagrave and GM Levon Aronian.
Similarly to every previous edition of the London chess classic, pgn4web provides support for news articles and for separate games archives of each individual event, including the grand chess tour final and the open.
Similarly to every previous edition of the London chess classic, pgn4web provides support for news articles and for separate games archives of each individual event, including the grand chess tour final and the open.
2019-10-10
FIDE grand Swiss Isle of Man games archives and news articles
The FIDE grand Swiss tournament organized by Isle of Man international takes place in the Isle of Man from Thursday October 10th to Monday 21st. Leading players include: GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Wesley So, GM Vishy Anand, GM Yangyi Yu, GM Sergey Karjakin, GM Alexander Grischuk and GM Levon Aronian. The event provides a world championship candidates place for the highest placed finisher who needs to qualify.
pgn4web is used for games archives and for embedding chess games within news articles, using the joomla embedchessboard plugin on the tournament site. More information how to display pgn4web chessboards on joomla sites is available from the pgn4web wiki.
pgn4web is used for games archives and for embedding chess games within news articles, using the joomla embedchessboard plugin on the tournament site. More information how to display pgn4web chessboards on joomla sites is available from the pgn4web wiki.
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