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The 2025 FIDE Circuit is a system comprising the top chess tournaments in 2025, which serves as a qualification path for the Candidates Tournament 2026. Players receive points based on their performance and the strength of the tournament. A player's final Circuit score is the sum of their seven best results of the year.
The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 will be a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, in September 2025. It forms part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2026. It will be an 11-round Swiss-system tournament.
The 35th Chess Olympiad, a chess tournament for teams. A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament in London, 1851, chess tournaments have become the standard form of chess competition among multiple serious players.
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, [3] [4] commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ ˈ f iː d eɪ / FEE-day, Fédération Internationale des Échecs), [5] is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.
Tournament City System Dates Players (2500+) Winner Runner-up Third Monaco FIDE Grand Prix: Monaco: Round robin 17 – 28 Feb 10 Cyprus FIDE Grand Prix: Round robin 14 – 25 Mar 10 India FIDE Grand Prix: Round robin 14 – 25 Apr 10 Austria FIDE Grand Prix: Round robin 5 – 16 May 10 Norway Chess: Stavanger: Double round robin 26 May – 6 ...
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
The FIDE Grand Prix is a biennial series of chess tournaments, organized by FIDE and its commercial partner Agon.Each series consists of three to six chess tournaments, which used to form part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship or Women's World Chess Championship.
The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament is a Swiss-system chess tournament, forming part of the qualification for the World Chess Championship. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is organized by Isle of Man International Chess Limited, and sponsored by the Scheinberg family .