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It will be an 11-round Swiss-system tournament. The winner and runner-up of the tournament will earn the right to play in the Candidates Tournament 2026. [2] [3] The Women’s section will be held in parallel at the same time and venue, and its top two finishers will qualify for the Women's Candidates Tournament. [4] [5]
At the end of 2025, the best player in the Circuit will qualify for the Candidates Tournament 2026, provided that they played in at least 5 tournaments (including at least 4 in standard time controls). Among these tournaments, there shall be at least 2 standard tournaments with participations of more than 50 players (if they played in 6 or 7 ...
The FIDE Grand Swiss was preceded by the Isle of Man International Chess Tournament, which was held annually from 2014 to 2018. [4] The tournament was co-organized by the English Chess Federation . It was sponsored by PokerStars until 2015, and then by Chess.com , which also sponsored the first two editions of the Grand Swiss.
Before 1950, the champion had the right to handpick a challenger. However, a number of tournaments acted as de facto candidates tournaments: The London 1883 chess tournament established Johannes Zukertort and Wilhelm Steinitz as the best two players in the world, and was one of the important events leading to the first official world championship match between the two, in 1886.
It was part of the Hawaii International Chess Festival, and held just prior to the 1998 U.S. Open Chess Championship. The event moved to a 9-round schedule over 9 days, offering title norms for the first time. The FIDE-rated time control was 40 moves in 2 hours, followed by 20 moves in 1 hour, then sudden death in 30 minutes. 75 players entered.
The tournament is a fourteen-player, single round-robin tournament, meaning there are 13 rounds with each player facing the others once. [2] The field of 14 players in the Masters section includes the defending champion Wei Yi and Gukesh Dommaraju, playing his first international event since becoming the World Chess Champion. Five of the top ...
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World Chess Championship 1948; Interzonal of the World Chess Championship (most years, 1948–1993) USSR Chess Championship (most years) Linares International Chess Tournament (1981–2010) Reggio Emilia chess tournament; World Chess Championship 2007; Pearl Spring chess tournament (Nanjing, 2008) M-Tel Masters (Sofia) Tal Memorial (Moscow ...