In the spa town of Harkany, Hungary, you can play the Wellness Chess Tour GP2 – Hotel Kager Harkany 2026 from Thursday 5 to Sunday 8 February 2026 in the conference hall of the four-star Hotel Kager. You spend four days in a wellness hotel with indoor spa, sauna world, and green outdoor areas while you fight through a full classical tournament that counts for FIDE and national rating lists. The organizers combine serious chess with relaxing breaks, so you step from the board straight into the hot tubs and saunas between rounds.

As the second station of the 2026 Wellness Chess Tour Grand Prix, this event lets you collect Grand Prix points toward valuable year-end prizes, including wellness weekends and vouchers. You play a seven-round Swiss tournament in a single open section without Elo restriction, compete for a guaranteed prize base of HUF 300,000 plus extra prizes, and enjoy loyalty and club discounts on the entry fee. Families and companions stay in the same hotel on half-board packages with unlimited wellness access, which turns the tournament into a full long-weekend getaway.

🗓️ Event Details

🏆 Prize Fund

The Wellness Chess Tour GP2 – Hotel Kager Harkany 2026 offers a main prize base of HUF 300,000 plus additional voucher and gift prizes. The organizer guarantees this fund if at least 50 players participate. Main prizes reward the top six players in the final standings, while category prizes recognize strong performances by juniors, women, seniors, local players, and specific rating groups. Prizes follow Hungarian tax regulations, and the arbiter uses tiebreak scores, not prize sharing, to decide all prize places.

Main prizes:

Category and special awards (minimum 5 players in each category):

⏱️ Time Control & Pairings

• The organizer runs the event as a seven-round Swiss-system Open without Elo restriction.

• Every game uses a classical FIDE time control of 90 minutes for the whole game plus a 30-second increment per move from move 1.

• The arbiter applies a 60-minute default time; players who arrive more than one hour late for a round normally lose by forfeit.

• The organizer submits all games for FIDE rating and for national rating, so you can gain or lose classical rating points.

• Pairings follow standard Swiss-system rules, and the arbiter uses Corrected Buchholz, Buchholz, then Progressive score as the tiebreak order for all prize decisions.

📂 Sections / Groups

All competitors play in this one section and compete together for main prizes, category prizes, and Grand Prix points.

📅 Schedule

📝 Registration

You register for Wellness Chess Tour GP2 – Hotel Kager Harkany by email. You send your full name, federation, Elo rating, and contact details to sporty207@gmail.com. The organizer confirms each registration by reply email and accepts only players who hold a valid 2026 competition license or, in the case of foreign players, a valid HPL. The registration deadline is Wednesday 4 February 2026.

Entry fees depend on your Elo rating: players above 2200 Elo pay HUF 9,000; players rated 2199–2100 pay HUF 12,000; and players under 2100 Elo pay HUF 14,000. Grandmasters, International Masters, Woman Grandmasters, and Woman International Masters receive free entry.

Loyalty discounts apply within the Wellness Chess Tour Grand Prix. If you play in at least six stations, you receive a HUF 2,000 discount on the entry fee at every location from the seventh station onward in 2026. Club discounts support group participation: when at least five paying players from the same chess association register for this event, each of them receives a reduced fee (HUF 9,000 instead of 14,000; HUF 10,000 instead of 12,000; or HUF 8,000 instead of 9,000, depending on their original category). Discounts do not combine; you always choose the one discount that gives you the best price.

👥 Organizer

The Wellness Chess Tour Grand Prix series runs under AO Jozsef Jeszenszky, who organizes FIDE-rated open tournaments in spa hotels across Hungary and combines competitive classical chess with wellness experiences for players and their families. The Harkany station continues this concept at Hotel Kager, where tournament rounds and wellness facilities share the same complex.

• Organizer and tournament director: AO Jozsef Jeszenszky

• Email: sporty207@gmail.com

• Phone: +36 30 640 3361

• Tour website: https://www.wellnesschesstour.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellnesschesstour

🏨 Venue

The tournament takes place in the conference room of Hotel Kager**** Harkany, Szent Istvan street 50–52, 7815 Harkany, Hungary. This four-star spa hotel offers indoor hot tubs, multiple saunas, a steam cabin, and a green courtyard around the outdoor pool area, so you can step from the playing hall straight into the wellness section. The hotel provides on-site restaurant service, bar, fitness room, and children’s play corner, which makes the venue comfortable for both players and accompanying guests.

🛎️ Accommodation

Hotel Kager**** and the organizer offer a special half-board tournament package with buffet breakfast, buffet dinner, and full wellness access. You book your room directly through the organizer, AO Jozsef Jeszenszky, by email at sporty207@gmail.com and confirm your hotel reservation together with your tournament entry.

Children from 0–5 years stay free of charge in the room with their parents, and children from 5–12 years receive a 50% discount on the package price. A 10% service charge applies to all restaurant consumption, including half board, à-la-carte meals, and bar orders. The hotel accepts payment by cash, bank card, and Széchenyi leisure card (SZÉP card).

The package includes accommodation, buffet breakfast and dinner, unlimited use of the wellness area, indoor hot tubs, saunas (infrared, Finnish, aroma), steam cabin, bathrobes and sauna towels, fitness room, Wi-Fi access, and use of a closed parking area. External guests can purchase wellness access for an additional fee, and the package price does not include the tourist tax. Guests can also use foosball, table tennis, gym facilities, and a children’s play corner free of charge.

🚗 How to Get There

You travel to southern Hungary and reach the spa town of Harkany, then follow signs to Hotel Kager**** at Szent Istvan street 50–52. When you arrive, you park your car in the hotel’s closed parking area included in the package and walk directly to the conference room for registration and rounds. You can use the photos and information on https://hotel-kager.hu to plan your trip and familiarize yourself with the hotel and surroundings before the event.

You can turn this Grand Prix station into a long weekend of FIDE-rated classical chess, spa relaxation, and attractive prize opportunities at the Wellness Chess Tour GP2 – Hotel Kager Harkany 2026.

🧾 Other

• This tournament is GP2 in a 16-station Wellness Chess Tour series; players earn GP points based on their overall placing at each station, and the organizers award premium rewards, vouchers, and wellness weekends at the final December 2026 Grand Prix event.

• Players who take part in at least six stations appear in the overall GP table, and the top five in that table receive special Grand Prix prizes at the closing event.

• Anyone who plays at least ten stations qualifies for a guaranteed wellness weekend for two people in a selected hotel; the three fastest players to reach ten stations claim these packages.

• The organizer uses Corrected Buchholz, Buchholz, then Progressive score as the official tiebreak order for all standings and prize decisions.

• The tournament announcement may change, and the organizer reserves the right to adjust details while preserving the main format and prize structure.