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Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot 2026: the group stage starts today
By the ChessFeed newsroom
The group stage of the Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot 2026 starts today in Budapest, Hungary. The field of 24 players is split into four groups of six, each a double round-robin at 45 minutes plus 30 seconds a move. The top seeds are Magnus Carlsen (2823), Fabiano Caruana (2783) and Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2772).