FIDE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CYCLE 2023-2024

Gukesh D (India)

World Champion

FIDE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

NOVEMBER 20 – DECEMBER 15, 2024, SINGAPORE

The World Championship Match consists of 14 games. The player who scores 7.5 points or more wins the Match, and no further games are played. If the score after 14 games is equal, the winner is decided on a tiebreak.

Ding Liren

World Champion

Gukesh D

Winner of the Candidates Tournament 2024

FIDE CANDIDATES TOURNAMENT

April 2024. Toronto, Canada

The winner of this 8-player double round-robin (all-play-all twice) becomes the Challenger for the chess crown. In case of a tie for first place after 14 rounds, the playoff determines the winner.

Qualification Paths

Ian Nepomniachtchi

2023 Match Runner-up​

Praggnanandhaa R

2023 World Cup 2nd

Fabiano Caruana

2023 World Cup 3rd

Nijat Abasov

2023 World Cup 4th​

Vidit Santosh Gujrathi

2023 Grand Swiss 1st

Hikaru Nakamura

2023 Grand Swiss 2nd​

Alireza Firouzja

Best by Rating

Gukesh D

2023 FIDE Circuit Winner

QUALIFIERS

FIDE CIRCUIT

1 January – 31 December, 2023
One player who would achieve the highest results during 2023 in eligible tournaments. The final score is calculated as the sum of the player’s five highest scores.

Gukesh D

Winner

Eligible tournaments are FIDE-rated individual tournaments which meet the following criteria:

  • Finish in the 2023 calendar year
  • At least 8 players
  • At least 7 rounds
  • The 8 highest-rated players have an average standard rating of 2550 at the start of the tournament (TAR)
  • The Chief Arbiter is an International Arbiter
  • Recommended FPL Fair Play procedures are applied
  • Players represent at least 3 national federations
  • Not more than 50% of either the 20 highest-rated players or all players, if there are fewer than 20 players, shall represent one federation.

For National Championships, the last two criteria are waived.

The following non-standard play tournaments are included:

  • World Rapid Championship
  • World Blitz Championship
  • Continental Rapid and Blitz Championships
  • Other Rapid & Blitz tournaments that meet the above criteria and have an average standard rating of top 8 players 2700 or higher

REGULATIONS

Points are awarded to players in one of the first 8 places in a tournament, provided that the player is in the top half of the final tournament ranking.

  • 10 points
  • 8 points
  • 7 points
  • 6 points
  • 5 points
  • 4 points
  • 3 points
  • 2 points

The event score for each player is determined by the number of points multiplied by the tournament strength factor calculated as follows: k= (TAR-2500)/100.

You can find the list of eligible tournaments on our FIDE Circuit 2023 page under the tab “Eligible Tournaments”

2023 FIDE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Astana, Kazakhstan


7 April – 1 May, 2023

Ian Nepomniachtchi

Runner-up

The World Championship Match consists of 14 games. The player who scores 7.5 points or more wins the Match, and no further games are played. If the score after 14 games is equal, the winner is decided on a tiebreak. Since the World Champion Magnus Carlsen officially declined to participate, the Match will be played between the two challengers, the winner of the 2022 Candidates Tournament, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and the runner-up, Ding Liren.

Regulations

FIDE WORLD CUP

Baku, Azerbaijan

29 July – 26 August, 2023

Praggnanandhaa R

Runner-up

Fabiano Caruana

3rd Place

Nijat Abasov

4th Place

206 players. Knockout.

System of play: Each match consists of two classical games (one game per day) with the time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 minutes to the end of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1. If tied, a tiebreak follows on the third day: two 25m+10s rapid games, if still tied, then two 10m+10s games, if still tied, then two 5m+3s games, if still tied, then a 3m+2s game shall decide the winner (in case of a draw, another game is played until there is a winner).

REGULATIONS

LIST OF FEDERATIONS entitled to nominate a player

Standings: worldcup2023.fide.com/en/tree

Winner: Magnus Carlsen

Runner up: R Praggnanandhaa

Third place: Fabiano Caruana 

Fourth place*: Nijat Abasov

*Fourth place qualifies to the FIDE Candidates in case one of the three frontrunners declines to play. 

FIDE GRAND SWISS

Douglas, Isle of Man

23 October – 5 November, 2023

Vidit Santosh Gujrathi

Winner

Hikaru Nakamura

Runner-up

114 players. Swiss system, 11 rounds.

The time control: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, followed by 15 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.

REGULATIONS

Final Standings:

1st place – Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi (India)

2nd place – Nakamura, Hikaru (USA)

3rd place – Esipenko, Andrey (FIDE)

Full standings: https://grandswiss.fide.com/open/

FIDE RATING

The highest-rated player by standard rating as of 1 January 2024, provided that the player has played at least 4 FIDE Circuit tournaments with standard time control.

Alireza Firouzja

2763

Next (after all other qualifiers) highest-rated player by standard rating as of 01/01/2024, provided that the player has played at least 4 eligible FIDE Circuit tournaments with standard time control.

REGULATIONS

Current top-100 in FIDE Ratings: https://ratings.fide.com