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 a challenger, who will be 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
31–32 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 3 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 TBD
TBD
TBD
The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2023 TBD
TBD
The winner of the 2023 FIDE Circuit TBD
Highest rating for January 2024[lower-alpha 2] TBD

Notes
  1. Russian players' flags were displayed as the FIDE flag, as Russian and Belarusian flags have been banned from FIDE-rated events in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[7]
  2. 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
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