12h-16h

Exclusive Festival Experience

Palace Charles de Lorraine

What is Included?

Masterclasses and Simuls

Rotonde of the Palace

Ivan Sokolov

12h-13h

"Playing the Legends"
The thinking process, psychology, and stories behind games against Kasparov, Kramnik and Anand.

Appartements of the Palace

Lunch

13h-13h30

Food and drinks will be served at the appartements for all participants at the masterclasses.

Appartements of the Palace

Daniel Dardha & Ivan Sokolov

13h30-15h

Simultaneous exhibition against Daniel Dardha or Ivan Sokolov.

Only 10 spots available for each simul

Rotonde of the pAlace

Judit Polgar

15h00-16h00

"From Curiosity to Checkmate"

Ask, explore, create and keep looking.

Chess Grandmasters

Ivan Sokolov

Bosnian-Dutch Grandmaster

Widely recognized as one of the world's premier elite chess trainers and authors

Famously defeated legendary world champions including Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand.

Daniel Dardha

Best Belgian chess player

Earned his Grandmaster title at the age of 15.

Reached his peak Elo rating of 2665 in March 2025, pushing him into the Top 100 global rankings.

Judit Polgar

Judit Polgar is the strongest female chess player in history and the only woman to have consistently competed on equal terms with the world’s best men, reaching a world ranking of No. 8. In 1989, at just twelve years old, she became the No.1–ranked woman in the world; a position she held for the next 26 years.