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February 27, 2026
Chess: British players win Isle of Wight Masters as Scots achieve rare double
GM Matthew Wadsworth won in Ryde on tiebreak, Scottish GM Matthew Turner also shared first, while in Graz Scotland’s Freddy Waldhausen Gordon, 15, qualified for the IM title

TL;DR
- GM Matthew Wadsworth won the Isle of Wight Masters on tie-break.
- Scottish GM Matthew Turner also shared first place in the Isle of Wight Masters.
- Freddy Waldhausen Gordon, 15, qualified for the IM title at the Graz Open in Austria.
- Supratit Banerjee (12) and Bodhana Sivanandan (10) finished first and second in the ChessKids under-13 youth championship.
- Bodhana Sivanandan achieved FM title and youngest ever WGM norm.
- The Fide world championship Candidates tournament begins soon in Cyprus.
- Fabiano Caruana is competing in the St Louis Masters, while other top GMs are in Prague.
- The Olimpbase database, a comprehensive chess history resource, has been restored.
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