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A FIDE-rated individual standard tournament is eligible for the Circuit if it meets the following criteria: [1] Finish between 1 January 2025 and for National Championships, zonal and continental tournaments as well as traditional open tournaments (with 50 or more players), 21 December 2025. For other tournaments, 15 December 2025.
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 ...
A FIDE-rated individual standard tournament is eligible for the Circuit if it meets the following criteria: [1] Finish between 1 January 2024 and 15 December 2024. Has at least 8 players. Has at least 7 rounds (4 rounds for knockout events). The 8 highest-rated players have an average standard rating of at least 2550 at the start of tournament.
As of 2023, 24 different players have been conferred with the highest civilian and sports honours of India, including the Padma awards and the Arjuna Award. Viswanathan Anand was the first sportsperson to receive the second-highest civilian award, Padma Vibhushan , in 2008 and the inaugural highest sports award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (now ...
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 automatic Candidates spot in the 2024–2026 cycle. Instead, the World Championship match will be an eligible tournament for the 2025 FIDE ...
The country has over 30,000 rated players actively participating in officially sanctioned tournaments nationwide. This robust participation has solidified India's status as a chess superpower, with its top 10 players achieving an average Elo rating of 2721, ranking second globally. [9] [10] [11]
Magnus Carlsen vs. Levon Aronian at Linares 2007 Typical tournament crosstable, showing individual and total scores This article depicts many of the strongest chess tournaments in history. The following list is not intended to be an exhaustive or definitive record of tournament chess, but takes as its foundation the collective opinion of chess ...
The main events in the 2023 chess calendar are the World Chess Championship 2023 [1] [2] and Women's World Chess Championship 2023. [3] The top three finishers from the Chess World Cup 2023, the winner and runner-up of the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2023 and the winner of the FIDE Circuit 2023 will qualify for the Candidates Tournament 2024.