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The Chess World Cup 2005 qualified ten players for the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship 2007. Since then, every World Cup has qualified between one and three players for the Candidates Tournament. Two World Cup qualifiers (Boris Gelfand in 2009 and Sergey Karjakin in 2015) won the subsequent Candidates tournament and ...
The Chess World Cup 2023 was a 206-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Baku, Azerbaijan from 30 July to 24 August 2023. [1] It was the 10th edition of the Chess World Cup . The winner, runner-up and third-place finisher of the tournament ( Magnus Carlsen , R Praggnanandhaa and Fabiano Caruana ) earned the right to the ...
The two finalists, Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Sergey Karjakin qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2022, which is a tournament to decide the next challenger for the World Championship. Moreover, all quarter-finalists, except for World Champion Magnus Carlsen, qualified for the FIDE Grand Prix 2022 , giving them another chance to qualify for the ...
The Women's Chess World Cup 2023 was a 103-player single-elimination chess tournament, the second edition of the Women's Chess World Cup, taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 29 July to 22 August 2023. [1] The runner up and third place finishers, Nurgyul Salimova and Anna Muzychuk, qualified for the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024. [2]
The top three finishers in the Chess World Cup 2023 [b] Magnus Carlsen (winner, withdrew) 33 2830 1 R Praggnanandhaa (runner-up) 18 2747 14 Fabiano Caruana (third place) 31 2803 2 Nijat Abasov (fourth place, replacement for Carlsen) 28 2632 114 The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2023: Vidit Gujrathi (winner) 29 2727 25
World ranking (June 2022) [23] 2021 World Championship runner-up Ian Nepomniachtchi [a] 31 2766 7 Candidate nominated by FIDE Teimour Radjabov: 35 2753 13 The top two finishers in the Chess World Cup 2021: Jan-Krzysztof Duda (winner) 24 2750 16 Sergey Karjakin [a] (runner-up) (Disqualified) 32 2747 17 The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand ...
The tournament was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan from 26–28 December 2022, [1] using a Swiss-system with 13 rounds for the open tournament and 11 rounds for the women's tournament. Players eligible to participate in the open tournament were either be rated at least 2550 Elo in a FIDE rating list during 2022, or reigning national champion. [2]
For the first time, FIFA decided to hold single-game matches in the World Cup host country, Qatar. They were scheduled for 13–14 June 2022 at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium in Al Rayyan. [4] They were originally scheduled for March that year, but were moved due to the changes in the FIFA International Match Calendar caused by the COVID-19 pandemic ...