World Chess Championship 2024
2024
 
Defending champion
Challenger
 
  China Ding Liren
  Born 24 October 1992
31 years old
  Winner of the World Chess Championship 2023 Winner of the Candidates Tournament 2024
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The World Chess Championship 2024 will be a chess match to determine the World Chess Champion. It will be played between the defending champion, Ding Liren of China, and the winner of the Candidates Tournament 2024. It will be a best of 14 games, plus tiebreaks.[1]

Candidates Tournament

Main article: Candidates Tournament 2024

The challenger will qualify by winning the Candidates Tournament 2024, which will be an eight-player double round-robin tournament. It will take place from 2 April to 25 April 2024 in Toronto, Canada.[2][3]

The eight players to compete are:[4][5][6]

Qualification method Player Age Rating World
ranking
(February 2024)
2023 World Championship runner-up FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi[a] 33 2758 7
The top three finishers in the Chess World Cup 2023[b] Norway Magnus Carlsen (winner, withdrew) 33 2830 1
India R Praggnanandhaa (runner-up) 18 2747 13
United States Fabiano Caruana (third place) 31 2804 2
Azerbaijan Nijat Abasov (fourth place, replacement for Carlsen) 28 2641 96
The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2023 India Vidit Gujrathi (winner) 29 2747 14
United States Hikaru Nakamura (runner-up) 36 2788 3
The winner of the 2023 FIDE Circuit[c] India Gukesh D (runner-up) 17 2743 16
Highest rating for January 2024[d] France Alireza Firouzja 20 2760 6

Notes

  1. ^ Russian players' flags are displayed as the FIDE flag, as Russian and Belarusian flags have been banned from FIDE-rated events in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[7]
  2. ^ The regulations stated that it would be the top three finishers other than Ding and Nepomniachtchi. (And that if both finished in the top four of the World Cup, then the World Cup qualifiers would be the other two players in the top four; and two players with the highest rating in the January 2024 ranking list would qualify for the event instead of one). However neither of these players reached the World Cup semifinals: Ding elected not to play, and Nepomniachtchi lost in the fifth round.
  3. ^ Fabiano Caruana finished first in the 2023 FIDE Circuit, but had already qualified for the Candidates through a third place finish at the Chess World Cup 2023. As a result, the qualifying spot was awarded to the highest finisher of the FIDE Circuit who had not already qualified for the event (Gukesh D).[8][9]
  4. ^ Provided the player has played at least 4 classical time control tournaments eligible for the 2023 FIDE Circuit.

References

  1. ^ FIDE. "FIDE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Cycle 2023-2024". fide.com. FIDE. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Toronto will host the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournaments".
  3. ^ "FIDE Candidates, Women's Candidates 2024 To Be Held In Toronto". Chess.com.
  4. ^ "FIDE reforms qualifications paths to Candidates Tournament".
  5. ^ "FIDE Announces 2024 Candidates Tournament Qualification Paths". Chess.com.
  6. ^ "FIDE revamp Candidates qualification system". chess24.
  7. ^ FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
  8. ^ Tarjei Svensen (13 December 2023). "FIDE Clarification On Candidates Race Draws Reactions". Chess.com.
  9. ^ "FIDE Circuit 2023". FIDE.
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