FIDE World Senior Team Championships Begin Monday in Prague
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new.uschess.orgHere’s the latest I can share based on recent public coverage.
- The 2024 FIDE World Senior Championships were held in Porto Santo, Portugal, with four open/women’s age-group champions crowned: Alexander Shabalov (Open 50+), Rainer Knaak (Open 65+), Masha Klinova (Women 50+), and Brigitte Burchardt (Women 65+). The event ran through late November 2024 and featured multiple age divisions, as is standard for the World Senior Championships.[1][2]
- In team formats that preceded or accompanied the individual world event, the United States won the World Senior Team Championship 50+ in Krakow, Poland, with England taking the 65+ title at that event in 2024. Separate U.S. championships around the same period fed players into these world events.[5]
- For ongoing or 2025–2026 planning, FIDE and related outlets maintain pages dedicated to World Senior Championships and related news, though specifics for 2025–2026 cycles are scattered across federation announcements and news outlets.[4][9]
If you want, I can pull the most current updates from official sources (FIDE, national federations) and summarize any new winners, dates, or host cities as of today. I can also lay out how to track live results or provide a quick comparison of the 50+ and 65+ divisions across recent years. Would you like me to do that?
Citations:
- Shabalov et al. winners in 2024 World Senior Championships.[1]
- 2024 World Senior Championship progress and standings.[2]
- 2024 World Senior Team Championship results and U.S./England outcomes.[5]
- FIDE and World Senior Championship coverage pages.[9][4]