Eligible tournaments are FIDE-rated individual tournaments which meet the following criteria:

• Finish in the 2023 calendar year
• At least 8 players
• At least 7 rounds
• The 8 highest-rated players have an average standard rating of 2550 at the start of the tournament (TAR)
• The Chief Arbiter is an International Arbiter
• Recommended FPL Fair Play procedures are applied
• Players represent at least 3 national federations
• Not more than 50% of either the 20 highest-rated players or all players, if there are fewer than 20 players, shall represent one federation.

For National Championships, the last two criteria are waived.

The following non-standard play tournaments are included:

• World Rapid Championship
• World Blitz Championship
• Continental Rapid and Blitz Championships
• Other Rapid & Blitz tournaments that meet the above criteria and have an average standard rating of top 8 players 2700 or higher

REGULATIONS

Points are awarded to players in one of the first 8 places in a tournament, provided that the player is in the top half of the final tournament ranking.

• 10 points
• 8 points
• 7 points
• 6 points
• 5 points
• 4 points
• 3 points
• 2 points

The event score for each player is determined by the number of points multiplied by the tournament strength factor calculated as follows: k= (TAR-2500)/100.

[Updated on 27 Feb 2023]

Below you can find the list of past and future eligible tournaments.

Note that ALL future date tournaments are tentative, subject to meeting eligibility criteria upon receiving official tournament report.

• MPL 59th Senior Indian National Chess Championship (Delhi, 22 December - 3 January)
• Rilton Cup (Stockholm, Sweden, 27 December - 5 January)
• Armenian Championship (Yerevan, Armenia,  13-21 January)
• Azerbaijan Championship (Baku, Azerbaijan, 13-26 January)
• Tata Steel Masters (Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, 13-29 January)
• Tata Steel Challengers (Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, 13-29 January)
• IX Floripa Open (Florianopolis, Brazil, 23-29 January)
• WR Chess Masters (Dusseldorf, Germany, 15-26 February)
• Open International de Cappelle la Grande (Cappelle la Grande, France, 18-24 February)
• European Individual Chess Championship (Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia, 3-13 March)
• 20th Delhi Open (New Delhi, India, 23-30 March) 
• Reykjavik Open (Reykjavik, Iceland, 29 March - 4 April)
• Fagernes Chess International (Fagernes, Norway, 2-9 April)
• VII Open Internacional de Ajedrez Semana Santa (La Nucia, Spain, 5-10 April)
• Tepe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament (Malmö, Sweden, 4-10 May)
• Superbet Chess Classic Romania (Bucharest, Romania, 4-16 May)
• Sharjah Masters (Sharjah, UAE, 16-26 May)
• Norway Chess (Stavanger, Norway, 29 May - 9 June)
• Open de Portugal (Guimarães, Portugal, 12-19 August)
• Torneio Internacional da Figueira da Foz – Sabir Ali (Figueira da Foz, Portugal, 5-12 November)
• Sinquefield Cup (Saint Louis, USA, 19 November - 3 December)