46th French Chess TOP 16
(see all-time tournament summary) |
| Dates: |
4th - 14th June 2026 |
| City: |
Chartres (France) |
| Venue: |
Salon Marceau, Hôtel de Ville, Chartres. |
| Organizers: |
Fédération Française des Échecs, C’Chartres Échecs and Ville de Chartres. |
| Head of Organizing Committee: |
François Gilles, president of C’Chartres Échecs. |
| Tournament Director: |
Jordi Lopez. |
| Chief Arbiter: |
Christo Dimitrov. |
| Arbiters: |
Cyril Humeau. |
| Eligible: |
Eight boards per match; registered squads of up to 16; a French man and a French woman must be fielded. |
| Seeding: |
June 2026 FIDE ratings, consistent with the match sheets. The published 16 May squad list contains earlier ratings. Carole Roos: 1404 retained from that registration list because no entry was found in the June standard list. |
| Teams participating: |
16 teams: twelve retained from 2025 plus Saint-Quentin, Poitiers-Migné, Strasbourg and Lesparre-Médoc, promoted from Nationale I. |
| Players participating: |
250 (incl. 104 GMs, 51 IMs, 3 WGMs, 29 FMs, 9 WIMs, 2 CMs and 11 WFMs) |
| Games played: |
704 |
| Competition format: |
Two preliminary groups of eight, seven rounds; top four of each enter Poule Haute, the others Poule Basse. Four new matches against clubs from the other preliminary group. MP and match W/D/L cover all eleven rounds; final-pool GW/GL covers seven matches within that pool. |
| Final order decided by: |
MP; head-to-head MP, difference and wins; then difference and wins against tied teams and common opponents. |
| Match winner: |
Drawn boards do not contribute to match scores. A win scores 3 MP, draw 2, played loss 1; team non-appearance 0. |
| Time control: |
90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 minutes to finish, with 30 seconds added per move throughout. |
| Website: |
https://chartres2026.ffechecs.org/ |
| Other websites: |
FFE :: event and results
FFE :: squads |
| Sources: |
All 88 FFE match sheets and four final tables; official 250-player register dated 16 May; June 2026 FIDE list; 704 games from TWIC 1648/1649; official individual results and fair-play document. |
| Documents: |
Registered squads; FIDE June 2026; Season regulations; Local regulations; Fair-play regulations; Official board awards; Individual results; TWIC 1648; TWIC 1649; Schedule. |
| Data notes: |
All 704 available move sequences preserved. Moussard–Barbot R3.4: erroneous TWIC draw corrected to 1-0, confirmed by the FFE sheet and individual totals 7/11 and 6/11. Leriche–Famel R11.8: played draw retained in PGN; the FFE administrative 0:1 is reflected only by +1 for Lesparre in _wyniki.txt. The registration PDF repeats Carole Forestier’s ID for Nicolas Cléry; Cléry was identified by his own June FIDE record. |
| PGN game file: |
2026france.pgn |
| The final FFE aggregate table prints Vandœuvre 18:9 and Poitiers 3:34. Summing its detailed matches within Poule Basse gives 21:9 and 3:37; no games were changed to force those aggregate values. The local-regulation PDF and award details could not be retrieved; unavailable content has not been guessed. |
