FIDE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Cycle 2023-2024
FIDE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
2024 DATES AND HOST CITY TO BE ANNOUNCED
The World Championship Match consists of 14 games. The player who scores 7.5 points or more wins the Match, and no further games are played. If the score after 14 games is equal, the winner is decided on a tiebreak.

World Champion
Winner of the World Championship Match 2023


Challenger
Winner of the Candidates Tournament 2024
FIDE CANDIDATES TOURNAMENT
2024 DATES AND HOST CITY TO BE ANNOUNCED
The winner of this 8-player double round-robin (all-play-all twice) becomes the Challenger for the chess crown. In case of a tie for first place after 14 rounds, the playoff determines the winner.

Qualifiers

FIDE CIRCUIT
1 January – 31 December, 2023
One player who would achieve the highest results during 2023 in eligible tournaments. The final score is calculated as the sum of the player’s five highest scores.
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
- 10 points
- 8 points
- 7 points
- 6 points
- 5 points
- 4 points
- 3 points
- 2 points

[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)

Wesley So
Current Leader

2023 FIDE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
Astana, Kazakhstan
7 April – 1 May, 2023
The World Championship Match consists of 14 games. The player who scores 7.5 points or more wins the Match, and no further games are played. If the score after 14 games is equal, the winner is decided on a tiebreak. Since the World Champion Magnus Carlsen officially declined to participate, the Match will be played between the two challengers, the winner of the 2022 Candidates Tournament, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and the runner-up, Ding Liren.
Standings will be updated during the match

Runner-up

FIDE WORLD CUP
Baku, Azerbaijan
29 July – 26 August, 2023
206 players. Knockout.
System of play: Each match consists of two classical games (one game per day) with the time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 minutes to the end of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1. If tied, a tiebreak follows on the third day: two 25m+10s rapid games, if still tied, then two 10m+10s games, if still tied, then two 5m+3s games, if still tied, then a 3m+2s game shall decide the winner (in case of a draw, another game is played until there is a winner).
Standings will be updated during the tournament
Website: worldcup.fide.com

Winner

Runner-up

Third place

FIDE GRAND SWISS
Douglas, Isle of Man
23 October – 5 November, 2023
114 players. Swiss system, 11 rounds.
The time control: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, followed by 15 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.
Standings will be updated during the tournament
Website: grandswiss.fide.com

Winner

Runner-up

FIDE RATING
The highest-rated player by standard rating as of 1 January 2024, provided that the player has played at least 4 FIDE Circuit tournaments with standard time control.
Next (after all other qualifiers) highest-rated player by standard rating as of 01/01/2024, provided that the player has played at least 4 eligible FIDE Circuit tournaments with standard time control.
Current top-100 in FIDE Ratings: ratings.fide.com
