Hastings International Chess Congress 2025 – 2026 LIVE

Few tournaments in chess history rival the legacy of the Hastings International Chess Congress. From its inaugural event in 1895 — widely regarded as one of the greatest tournaments ever held — Hastings has drawn many of the world’s top players. That first edition saw giants like Wilhelm Steinitz, Emanuel Lasker, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Mikhail Chigorin compete, only to be sensationally defeated by Harry Nelson Pillsbury, a relatively unknown American master whose victory stunned the chess world. Since then, Hastings has welcomed an extraordinary list of champions, contenders, and creative forces, each leaving their mark on the game and on Hastings itself!

With Pierre Laurent-Paoli, Sarunas Sulskis, Marius Deuer, Tor Fredrik Kaasen, Stephen Gordon, and Stanley Badacsonyi, Bodhana Sivanandan, and many more local stars in the list, Hastings Chess 2025 – 2026 is promising to be a fantastic competition.

Hastings International Chess Congress 2025 – 2026 participants

1	GM	Laurent-Paoli, Pierre	FRA	2539
2	GM	Sulskis, Sarunas	LTU	2475
3	IM	Deuer, Marius	GER	2475
4	IM	Kaasen, Tor Fredrik	NOR	2471
5	GM	Gordon, Stephen J	ENG	2465
6		Plat, Vojtech	CZE	2461
7	IM	Hagner, Bennet	GER	2451
8	IM	Kuru, Atilla	TUR	2449
9	GM	Kovchan, Alexander	UKR	2447
10	GM	Williams, Simon K	ENG	2434
11	IM	Ghimpu, Samuel-Timotei	ROU	2428
12	IM	Wang, Hao(Zj)	CHN	2426
13		Grutter, Tim	NED	2397
14	GM	Gormally, Daniel W	ENG	2396
15	IM	Mazur, Stefan	SVK	2392
16	IM	Golding, Alex	ENG	2370
17	IM	Skytte, Rasmus	DEN	2354
18	FM	Badacsonyi, Stanley	ENG	2317
19	FM	Kalavannan, Koby	ENG	2275
20	IM	Balaji, Aaravamudhan	ENG	2270
21		Southcott-Moyers, Indy	ENG	2266
22	FM	Hobson, Kenneth	ENG	2264
23		Ashton, Adam G	ENG	2247
24	CM	Lau, Lut Yin Luke	HKG	2243
25		Demac, Elias	NOR	2230
26	WIM	Sivanandan, Bodhana	ENG	2229
27	FM	Martin, Nils	FRA	2222
28	FM	Wall, Tim P	ENG	2219
29		Bryant, Harry	ENG	2207
30		Saunders, Aron	ENG	2201
31	CM	Finn, Peter	ENG	2200
32		Vaidyanathan, Adithya	ENG	2189
33		Kapechun, Mikhailo	UKR	2184
34		Brewer, Callum D	ENG	2175
35		Zhang, Junyi	ENG	2172
36	CM	Manmay, Chopra	IND	2170
37		Janse, Jan Jaap	NED	2170
38	CM	Yoon, Jacob D	ENG	2165
39		Adams, Henry	ENG	2159
40	WFM	Blanquet, Camille	FRA	2132
41	WFM	Verbin, Valentina	MDA	2122
42		Burrows, Martin P	ENG	2117
43		Hill, Alistair	ENG	2104
44		Both, Bert	NED	2102
45		Brown, Thomas	WLS	2082
46		White, Stuart A	SCO	2072
47	WFM	Rida, Ruqayyah	ENG	2068
48		Bharat Kumar, Balahari	ENG	2068
49		Tudoroiu, Razvan-Catalin	ROU	2063
50		Patel, Zain	ENG	2058
51		Clarke, Connor	ENG	2058
52		Onuoha, Obioma	NGR	2056
53	WFM	Varney, Zoe	ENG	2053
54		Barbu, Simon-Alexandru	ROU	2051
55	CM	Skytte, Robert	DEN	2050
56		Herzwurm, Robert	GER	2047
57		Dupuis, Denis K	ENG	2045
58		Verbytski, Oleg	ENG	2039
59		Kilambi, Venkata Ananth Akshay	ENG	2038
60		Balzer, Lars	GER	2026
61		Woods, Yannick	IRL	2023
62		Byron, Alan M	ENG	2022
63		Brett, Andrew R	ENG	2011
64		Ortiz Sanchez, Luis	WLS	2007
65		Kendall, Arthur	ENG	2000
66		Sciupokas, Arunas	LTU	1990
67		Rayner, Francis	WLS	1983
68	WCM	Ashton, Alannah	ENG	1983
69		Dewangan, Aayush	ENG	1981
70		Chapman, Luke	ENG	1976
71		Vaddhireddy, Sai	ENG	1960
72		Ward, Cian	ENG	1947
73		Turner, Lewis A	ENG	1945
74		Rastogi, Nayan Keats	ENG	1939
75		Gorskovs, Andrejs	ENG	1920
76		Rubeck, Jonathan	ENG	1913
77	WFM	Norinkeviciute, Rasa	LTU	1904
78		Fryer, David W	ENG	1902
79		Binks, Michael	WLS	1898
80		Lee, Younggyu	KOR	1892
81		Gibson, Christopher A	ENG	1887
82		Shankar, Yashwardhan	SCO	1886
83		Sadler, Ben	ENG	1882
84		Anjulan, Ashwin	ENG	1876
85		Swiatkowski, Dominik	ENG	1874
86	CM	Kim, Changhoon	KOR	1874
87		Freeman, Luke	ENG	1867
88		Siddharth, Gopakumar	ENG	1864
89		Napolitano, Domenico	ENG	1863
90		Hu, Junyan	ENG	1862
91		Ruane, Brendan J	ENG	1857
92		Ratcliffe, James	ENG	1845
93		Swiatkowski, Aram	ENG	1843
94		Pai, Sidhanth	ENG	1842
95		Vaidyanathan, Sathya	ENG	1842
96		Sow, Miaogeng Malcolm	ENG	1842
97		Venkatesh, Anuj	ENG	1825
98	AFM	Gupta, Aditya	ENG	1808
99		Saxena, Advik	ENG	1806
100		Prince, Alan R	ENG	1803
101		Liu, Yiyi	ENG	1791
102		Butt, Laurence	ENG	1790
103		Eldridge, Albert	ENG	1781
104		Wilson, Matthew R	ENG	1772
105		Jacobs, Simon	ENG	1749
106		Halas, Kim Aleksander	NOR	1729
107		Oh, Sejun	KOR	1695
108		Williams, Ad (Tony)	ENG	1671
109		Lee, Ain	KOR	1666
110		Saxena, Reyansh	ENG	1641
111		Siddhartha, Shankar Srivastava	IND	1589