This… is Today in Chess.

Your brief roundup of the biggest results, key games, and defining moments from the world’s top chess competitions.

Today, the 15th April 2026 was the final round number 14 of 14 of the 2026 Candidates tournament to choose the next contender to face Gukesh to battle it out to be the next world champion.

The pairings were:

Esipenko v Caruana – win for Caruana

Pragg v Nakamura – draw

Bluebaum v Giri - win for Giri

Sindarov v Wei Yi – draw

So the final standings were:

Sindarov 10/14

Giri 8.5

Caruana 7.5

Wei Yi 7 Nakamura 6.5

Bluebaum, Pragg 6

Esipenko 4.5

And in the Women's Candidates we had a lot of excitement in the final round. Anna Muzychuk drew with Zhu Juner and Vaishali beat Kateryna Lagno, which meant that the final standings were Vaishali with 8.5 out of 14 beating Bibisara Assaubayeva into second place with 8 out of 14 and Zhu Jiner and Aleksandra Goryachkina level 3rd on 7.5. So many congratulations to Vaishali Rameshbabu.

This week's Titled Tuesday was won by Haik Martirosyan, a GM from Armenia.

Thanks for following me through these tournaments, any feedback hit me up at[email protected]Until the next day in chess – be lucky, and may all your gambits be accepted and give you a winning position!