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Revision as of 14:35, 1 November 2019
Defending champion | Challenger |
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TBD |
Born 30 November 1990 28 years old |
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Winner of the World Chess Championship 2018 | Winner of the Candidates Tournament 2020 |
Rating: TBD | Rating: TBD |
← 2018 | 2022 → |
The World Chess Championship 2020 will be a chess match between the reigning World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen, and a challenger to determine the World Chess Champion. It will be held in the latter half of 2020, under the auspices of FIDE, the world chess federation, with the organisation rights belonging to World Chess, its commercial partner.[1]
Candidates Tournament
The challenger will be the winner of a Candidates Tournament, which will be an eight-player tournament played in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in March-April of 2020.[2]
The qualifiers for the Candidates Tournament will be:[3][4]
Qualification method | Player |
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2018 World Championship runner-up | ![]() |
The top two finishers at the 2019 World Chess Cup | ![]() |
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The top finisher in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2019 (who does not qualify by one of the above methods, and is not Carlsen). | ![]() |
The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Prix 2019 (who do not qualify by one of the above methods). | In progress: ends 2019-12-24
Current leaders: |
Highest average rating (who does not qualify by one of the above methods, and is not Carlsen). | Current leader: ![]() |
Wild card (chosen by organizer) | TBD |
If one or more players decline the invitation to play in the Candidates Tournament, the players with the next highest average ratings will qualify.
Compared to previous cycles (2014, 2016, 2018), the Grand Swiss is a new addition, and the number of qualifiers by rating has been reduced from two to one. The format of the Grand Prix tournament has also changed.
Qualifier by rating
The qualifier on rating is the player with the highest average rating for the 12 ratings periods from February 2019 to January 2020, who does not qualify by another method. To be eligible, a player must have played at least 30 games during these 12 ratings periods, and at least 18 in the final 6 ratings periods.[4]
The following table shows the ratings (in excess of 2700) of the players with the top average ratings from February 2019 to October 2019.[5] It includes the first ten players except for world champion Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana (who qualifies as the 2018 challenger) and Ding Liren (who qualifies as a finalist of the 2019 World Cup). All of these players have already met the above game count requirements. The current leader for this qualification path is Anish Giri.
Player | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan 2020 | Total | Average |
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97 | 97 | 97 | 87 | 79 | 79 | 79 | 80 | 80 | 76 | 851 | 85.1 | ||
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90 | 90 | 93 | 81 | 74 | 65 | 64 | 67 | 67 | 77 | 768 | 76.8 | ||
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80 | 75 | 73 | 80 | 79 | 75 | 78 | 74 | 74 | 77 | 765 | 76.5 | ||
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71 | 71 | 73 | 73 | 75 | 75 | 74 | 76 | 76 | 73 | 737 | 73.7 | ||
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79 | 79 | 74 | 74 | 67 | 64 | 56 | 65 | 65 | 57 | 680 | 68.0 | ||
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71 | 71 | 71 | 72 | 75 | 66 | 59 | 59 | 59 | 64 | 667 | 66.7 | ||
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65 | 62 | 62 | 54 | 54 | 63 | 76 | 67 | 67 | 65 | 635 | 63.5 |
Wild card
One wild card is selected by the organizer. This player must participate in at least two of the three qualifying tournaments (World Cup, Grand Swiss and Grand Prix) and either be the highest non-qualifier in one of them or be in the top 10 by average rating from February 2019 to January 2020.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave came third in the World Cup and participated in the Grand Prix. Kirill Alekseenko came third in the Grand Swiss and was thus the highest non-qualifier (as the runner-up, Fabiano Caruana, was already qualified). He also participated in the World Cup. These two players are thus eligible for the wild card if they do not qualify by another method.
All other players in the above table except for Viswanathan Anand took part in both the World Cup and the Grand Prix and will thus be eligible to be picked as the wild card player if they stay in the top ten by average rating and do not qualify by another path. Viswanathan Anand only participated in the Grand Swiss and thus is ineligible to be picked as the wild card player.
Eligible for wild card nomination | Player |
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The highest non-qualifier in the World Cup | ![]() |
The highest non-qualifier in the Grand Swiss | ![]() |
The highest non-qualifier in the Grand Prix | TBD |
The non-qualifiers in the top 10 by average rating from February 2019 to January 2020. The eligible non-qualifiers in the top 10 by average rating up to November 2019 are: |
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Championship match
Organization
The match will be a best-of-14 match, with tie breaks. This was increased from best-of-12 (in place for every world championship match since 2006), after all 12 regular games were drawn in the previous match in 2018.[6]
Location
Bids were to be presented no later than on 1 March 2019 to World Chess, with an inspection at the proposed venues to be made between 1 July and 15 August 2019.[7]
In 2018, Monaco and Vienna expressed intention to bid for the event, [8] as has Saint Petersburg.[citation needed]
Stavanger, Norway announced a bid in March 2019, but withdrew its bid in June 2019, after Carlsen expressed reluctance to play the match in Norway.[9][10]
References
- ^ "Bidding opens to Host the 2020 World Chess Candidates Tournament". FIDE. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ Big Beasts Still Alive After First Round of World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Ian Rogers, Lichess, 12-Sep-2019
- ^ Bidding Procedure for the FIDE Candidates' Tournament 2020, FIDE, 8 March 2020
- ^ a b Regulations for the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2020, FIDE
- ^ FIDE Top 100 lists for 2019: February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November
- ^ FIDE updates and the World Championship cycle, Chessbase, April 26 2019
- ^ "Championship Match 2020 - The Bidding Procedure" (PDF). WorldChess. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- ^ "Vienna vies for 2020 World Championship". chessbase.com. 13 September 2018.
- ^ Norway not to bid for the 2020 World Chess Championship, Norway Chess press release, June, 27 2019
- ^ "Stavanger, Norway Withdraws 2020 World Champs Bid After Carlsen Pressure". chess.com. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2019.