Fide Freestyle Chess World Championship 2026

the best players in the world measure their worth at weissenhaus

 

Welcome to the FIDE Freestyle Chess Championship at Weissenhaus

 

For the first time, and in collaboration with FIDE the world's stars will meet directly on the Baltic Sea at the Weissenhaus Private Nature Luxury Resort. Jan Henric Buettner, initiator and passionate fan of ther Freestyle Chess Community, is looking forward to exciting and passionate encounters with the world's best chess players from 13 to 15 February 2026 at the FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship, which has a prize fund of $300,000.

 

PLAYERS

 

Magnus Carlsen | Fabiano Caruana  | Arjun Erigaisi  | Hans Niemann | Levon Aronian | Vincent Keymer | Javokhir Sindarov  | Nodirbek Abdusattorov

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PARTNERS & SPONSORS

 

Chrono 24  |  Make.com  |  Secretable  |  DGT  |  Polar  |  S. Pellegrino  |  Chess.com  |  Kalshi

 

LINKS

 

https://www.fide.com/

https://www.instagram.com/fide_chess/

https://www.freestyle-chess.com/

https://www.instagram.com/freestyle_chess/

https://www.youtube.com/@freestyle_chess

https://www.instagram.com/wwwchesscom/

https://www.chess.com/