World Chess Championship 2024

The World Chess Championship 2024 will be a chess match to determine the World Chess Champion. It will be played between the defending champion, Ding Liren of China, and the winner of the Candidates Tournament 2024. It will be a best of 14 games, plus tiebreaks.[1]

World Chess Championship 2024
2024
 
Defending champion
Challenger
 
  China Ding Liren
 
Scores
  Born 24 October 1992
31 years old
  Winner of the World Chess Championship 2023 Winner of the Candidates Tournament 2024

Candidates Tournament
Main article: Candidates Tournament 2024

The challenger will qualify by winning the Candidates Tournament 2024, which will be an eight-player double round-robin tournament. It will take place from 2 April to 25 April 2024 in Toronto, Canada.[2][3]

The eight players to qualify will be:[4][5][6]

Qualification method Player Age Rating World
ranking
(April 2024)
2023 World Championship runner-up FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi[lower-alpha 1] 33
The top three finishers in the Chess World Cup 2023[lower-alpha 2] Norway Magnus Carlsen (winner, withdrew)[lower-alpha 3] 33
India R Praggnanandhaa (runner-up) 18
United States Fabiano Caruana (third place) 31
Azerbaijan Nijat Abasov (fourth place)[lower-alpha 4] 28
The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2023 TBD
TBD
The winner of the 2023 FIDE Circuit[8] TBD
Highest rating for January 2024[lower-alpha 5] TBD

Notes
  1. Russian players' flags are displayed as the FIDE flag, as Russian and Belarusian flags have been banned from FIDE-rated events in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[7]
  2. The regulations stated that it would be the top three finishers other than Ding and Nepomniachtchi. (And that if both finished in the top four of the World Cup, then the World Cup qualifiers would be the other two players in the top four; and two players with the highest rating in the January 2024 ranking list will qualify for the event instead of one). However neither of these players reached the World Cup final: Ding elected not to play, and Nepomniachtchi lost in the fifth round.
  3. Magnus Carlsen has qualified for the 2024 Candidates Tournament by finishing in the top 3 of the 2023 FIDE World Cup, but has stated that "under the current format there is absolutely no chance [I will play the Candidates]", probably implying that he will withdraw from the Candidates.
  4. According to the regulations, if a player who qualifies via the 2023 FIDE World Cup withdraws from the 2024 Candidates Tournament, the player who finishes fourth in the World Cup shall replace them in the Candidates. Therefore, Nijat Abasov, who finished fourth in the World Cup, is expected to replace World Cup winner and former World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen (who stated that "under the current format there is absolutely no chance [I will play the Candidates]"), in the Candidates.
  5. Provided the player has played at least 4 classical time control tournaments eligible for the 2023 FIDE Circuit.

References
  1. FIDE. "FIDE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Cycle 2023-2024". fide.com. FIDE. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  2. "Toronto will host the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournaments".
  3. "FIDE Candidates, Women's Candidates 2024 To Be Held In Toronto". Chess.com.
  4. "FIDE reforms qualifications paths to Candidates Tournament".
  5. "FIDE Announces 2024 Candidates Tournament Qualification Paths". Chess.com.
  6. "FIDE revamp Candidates qualification system". chess24.
  7. FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
  8. "FIDE Circuit 2023". FIDE.
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