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In April 2022, before announcing all the qualification methods, FIDE announced that the top two finishers in the 2023 Grand Chess Tour would qualify to the 2024 Candidates Tournament. FIDE promised that more details would follow, but later announced qualification paths excluding the Grand Chess Tour, without providing an explanation for the change.
The 2024 FIDE Circuit is a system comprising the top chess tournaments in 2024, 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 winners, Gukesh and Tan Zhongyi, advanced to the World Chess Championship 2024 and Women's World Chess Championship 2025 respectively. The winner of the 2024 FIDE Circuit, which encompasses major tournaments held in 2024, will qualify for the 2026 Candidates Tournament. The World Championship runner-up, Ding Liren, will no longer get an ...
The FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2024 was an eight-player chess tournament held to determine the challenger for the Women's World Chess Championship 2025. It was held from 3 April to 22 April 2024 in Toronto, Canada, alongside the Candidates Tournament 2024. [1] [2] It was a double round-robin tournament. [3]
The Candidates Tournament (or in some periods Candidates Matches) is a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship. The winner of the Candidates earns the right to a match for the World Championship against the incumbent ...
The winner of the 2024 FIDE Circuit [a] TBD The top three finishers in the Chess World Cup 2025 [b] TBD TBD TBD The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 [c] TBD TBD The winner of the 2025 FIDE Circuit [d] TBD Highest rating averaged from August 2025 to January 2026 [e] TBD
The challenger, Gukesh Dommaraju, qualified by winning the Candidates Tournament 2024 in Toronto, Canada, which was an eight-player double round-robin tournament. [14] [15] It took place from April 3 to April 22, 2024. [16] [17] Fabiano Caruana won the 2023 FIDE Circuit, but had already qualified for the Candidates through the Chess World Cup 2023.
The Women's World Chess Championship 2025 will take place in 2025 as a match between Ju Wenjun, the current champion, and Tan Zhongyi, the winner of the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024. [1] Both players previously challenged for the world championship in May 2018 , with Ju defeating then-world champion Tan 5½–4½ to win the title.