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 |