Rapid Championship
- Rounds
- System
- Swiss System
- Time control
15 minutes + 5 seconds increment per move
Official schedule
Arrival, technical meeting, opening ceremony, eleven rounds of Rapid and eleven of Blitz, and departure. The full week, as published.
- Host city
- Cairo, Egypt
- Dates
- 8–15 December 2026
- Categories
- 6 · Open & Girls
- Format
- Rapid & Blitz · 11 rounds
- Opens in
§ 03Disciplines
Two titles,
eleven rounds
Both championships are decided under the FIDE Swiss System across eleven rounds. A player entered in both plays twenty-two games in eight days.
Blitz Championship
- Rounds
- System
- Swiss System
- Time control
5 minutes + 3 seconds increment per move
§ 04Schedule
Eight days
in December
Transcribed exactly as published in the official regulations. Where the source document is internally inconsistent it is shown verbatim and annotated in the margin, never silently corrected.
DEC · Tue
- —Arrival
DEC · Wed
- 11:00 AMTechnical Meeting
- 14:30 PMOpening Ceremony
Content reviewPrinted as "14:30AM" in the official regulations. 14:30 falls after noon, so the AM designator was a typographic error in the source document. Corrected to PM on the instruction of the Organizing Committee. The time itself is unchanged.
- 15:00 PMRapid — Round 1 – Round 3
DEC · Thu
- 15:00 PMRapid — Round 4 – Round 7
DEC · Fri
- 15:00 PMRapid — Round 8 – Round 11
DEC · Sat
- —Free Day
DEC · Sun
- 15:00 PMBlitz — Round 1 – Round 6
DEC · Mon
- 12:00 PMBlitz — Round 7 – Round 11
- 19:00 PMClosing Ceremony
DEC · Tue
- —Departure