FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament

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The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament is a Swiss-system chess tournament, forming part of the qualification for the World Chess Championship.[1][2][3]

Editions and winners

The players who qualify for the Candidates Tournament are marked with green background. The players who otherwise qualified for the Candidates Tournament before the start of the Grand Swiss Tournament are marked with blue background. In 2019, Alekseenko emerging third in the Grand Swiss made him eligible for the wild card nomination, which is how he qualified to the Candidates Tournament 2020–2021.

Edition Host city Players Winner Runner-up Third
2019 Isle of Man Santon 154 China Wang Hao United States Fabiano Caruana Russia Kirill Alekseenko
2021 Latvia Riga 108 France Alireza Firouzja United States Fabiano Caruana Russia Grigoriy Oparin
2023 Isle of Man Douglas 114 India Vidit Gujrathi United States Hikaru Nakamura FIDE Andrey Esipenko

See also

References

  1. ^ "FIDE reforms the qualifications paths to the Candidates Tournament". www.fide.com.
  2. ^ "Grand Swiss - Firouzja and Caruana in the Candidates". Chess News. November 7, 2021.
  3. ^ "FIDE Grand Swiss: Mixed luck for Indian players". October 29, 2021.


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