Tournament information
- Dates
- Aug 07, 2026 to Aug 16, 2026
- Location
- Vichy, France
- Time control
- Classical
- Organizer
- ChessView Agent Publisher
- Source
- Lichess Broadcasts
- Contact
- TBA
Overview
French Chess Championship 2026 – Open & Women
Vichy, FranceClassical
Event details will be published by the organizer.
View tournament metadatapartial
The French Chess Championship Open and Women knockout sections run in Vichy from 2026-08-07 through 2026-08-16, with first stage, quarterfinal, semifinal and final broadcasts.
Format
- System
- 16-player Knockout
- Time Control Detail
- 90 min / 40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec / move
- Broadcast Rounds
- 7
- Sections
- Open; Women
- Stages
- First stage; Quarterfinals; Semifinals; Finals
- Fide Rated
- Yes
Registration
- Status
- unknown
- Url
- https://vichy2026.ffechecs.org/
Logistics
- Venue
- Vichy
- City
- Vichy
- Country
- France
- Timezone
- Europe/Paris
Schedule
- Round 1
- Section: Open | Stage: First stage | Date: 2026-08-07 | End Date: 2026-08-08
- Round 2
- Section: Open | Stage: Quarterfinals | Date: 2026-08-09 | End Date: 2026-08-10
- Round 3
- Section: Open | Stage: Semifinals | Date: 2026-08-12 | End Date: 2026-08-13
- Round 4
- Section: Open | Stage: Finals | Date: 2026-08-14 | End Date: 2026-08-16
- Round 5
- Section: Women | Stage: First stage | Date: 2026-08-07 | End Date: 2026-08-08
- Round 6
- Section: Women | Stage: Quarterfinals | Date: 2026-08-09 | End Date: 2026-08-10
- Round 7
- Section: Women | Stage: Semifinals | Date: 2026-08-12 | End Date: 2026-08-13
- Round 8
- Section: Women | Stage: Finals | Date: 2026-08-14 | End Date: 2026-08-16
Source audit
- Authority
- broadcast
- Access Class
- documented_api
- Source Slug
- lichess-broadcasts
- Owner
- connector-pipeline
- Region Group
- global
- Authorization Status
- public-reviewed
- Adapter Version
- 1
- Identity Strategy
- source-original-id
- Publication Mode
- active
- Urls Visited
- https://lichess.org/api/broadcast; https://lichess.org/broadcast/french-chess-championship-2026-open-first-stage/M75GW8id
- Captured At
- 2026-08-05T04:01:01.490Z
- Extraction Status
- structured public facts captured
- Confidence
- 0.82
- Copyright Notes
- Stored normalized facts, URLs, hashes, and a short evidence excerpt only; no raw response, full page, document, standings, pairings, or player list retained.
- Field Provenance
- Title: Evidence Ref: connector-lichess-broadcasts-lichess-broadcast-m75gw8id | Confidence: 0.82 | Start Date: Evidence Ref: connector-lichess-broadcasts-lichess-broadcast-m75gw8id | Confidence: 0.82 | End Date: Evidence Ref: connector-lichess-broadcasts-lichess-broadcast-mrtxnt6y | Confidence: 0.82 | Country: Evidence Ref: connector-lichess-broadcasts-lichess-broadcast-m75gw8id | Confidence: 0.82 | City: Evidence Ref: connector-lichess-broadcasts-lichess-broadcast-m75gw8id | Confidence: 0.82 | Venue: Evidence Ref: connector-lichess-broadcasts-lichess-broadcast-m75gw8id | Confidence: 0.82 | Time Control: Evidence Ref: connector-lichess-broadcasts-lichess-broadcast-m75gw8id | Confidence: 0.82 | Rating Type: Evidence Ref: connector-fide-rated-tournaments-fide-rated-480450 | Confidence: 0.84
- Broadcast Tier
- 4
- Official Website
- https://vichy2026.ffechecs.org/
- Material Change
- Lichess adds the complete knockout schedule and broadcast identities; six retained FIDE records establish the National, National Feminin and tiebreak companion identities.
- Review Evidence
- Review Method: codex_model | Model: gpt-5.6-sol | Task Id: chessview-tournament-review-drainer | Prompt Hash: sha256:9a88fc8f207c4b23520f8d4063ea47fa943447ea6755fd18344a9fda490169db | Started At: 2026-08-05T11:32:26.262Z | Completed At: 2026-08-05T11:44:38.856Z | Triage Version: v2 | Candidate Count: 96 | Claim Hash: sha256:e3ed456ded95e56fdd7babd3694d684c294d80f8bbf65d44de3cb5d9a007e4c9 | Global Family Index Reviewed: Yes | Global Family Count: 2570 | Global Source Key Count: 3366 | Approved Corpus Reviewed: Yes | Approved Corpus Count: 7785 | Database Write Attempted: No | Review Notes: Every candidate in the immutable claim was inspected against the live global family index and all approved-corpus artifacts for exact source identity, fuzzy and multilingual title/date/location identity, recurring editions, material changes, and companion sections or formats. Approvals are limited to novel future complete OTB families or material authoritative enrichments with confidence at least 0.75, attributable provenance and no blocking conflict.
Other facts
- Lichess broadcast id
- M75GW8id