2024 FIDE Circuit
2024 FIDE Circuit | |
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Duration | 28 December 2023 – 31 December 2024 |
The 2024 FIDE Circuit is a system comprising the top chess tournaments in 2024, which serves as a qualification path for the Candidates Tournament 2026. Players receive points based on their performance and the strength of the tournament. A player's final Circuit score is the sum of their seven best results of the year. The winner of the Circuit qualifies for the Candidates Tournament 2026.[1]
Tournament eligibility
[edit]A FIDE-rated individual standard tournament is eligible for the Circuit if it meets the following criteria:[1]
- Finish between 1 January 2024 and 15 December 2024.
- Has at least 8 players.
- Has at least 7 rounds (4 rounds for knockout events).
- The 8 highest-rated players have an average standard rating of at least 2550 at the start of tournament. This average is referred to as TAR (tournament average rating).
- Players represent at least 3 national federations.
- Not more than 50% of the 20 highest-rated players (or all players if fewer than 20) represent one federation.
The Circuit also includes the following tournaments:
- The World Chess Championship 2024.
- National Championships that meet points 1 to 4 in above criteria.
- World Rapid Championship.
- World Blitz Championship.
- Continental Rapid Championships.
- Continental Blitz Championships.
- Other Rapid and Blitz tournaments that meet the above criteria, except that the TAR must be at least 2700.
Points system
[edit]Event points
[edit]Circuit points obtained by a player from a tournament are calculated as follows:
where:
- - Points obtained by player from the tournament
- - Basic points
- - Tournament strength factor, calculated as
- - Tournament weighting
- 1.0 - Standard classical tournaments
- 0.8 - World Rapid Championships
- 0.6 - World Blitz Championships and other Rapid tournaments
- 0.5 - Mixed Rapid & Blitz tournaments
- 0.4 - Blitz tournaments
Basic points
[edit]Basic points for a tournament are awarded depending on the tournament format:
- Swiss-system: Top 8 (within top half of ranking), ties included.
- Round-robin: Top 3 with ties (with the exception of the Candidates Tournament 2024 where points are awarded to all players).
- Knockout: Third round or later, up to 8 players.
Points are awarded as follows:
1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th |
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11/10 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
- If the tournament is won outright, basic points for 1st place would be 11 points. Otherwise, 10 basic points would be used for calculation.
- For tied positions, basic points are calculated as 50% of points for final ranking as determined by tournament's tie-break rules, plus 50% of the sum of basic points assigned for the tied places divided by the number of tied players. If no tie-break rule is applied, basic points are 100% shared equally among all tied players.
- For round-robin tournaments (other than Candidates), 4th and below are worth zero points for tied players calculation.
FIDE World Championship points
[edit]For the World Chess Championship 2024, the winner will get points calculated as 1st place basic points multiplied by the strength factor, but with its TAR value using winner's performance rating instead.
Player's total and ranking
[edit]A player's point total for the ranking is the sum of their best 7 tournaments with the following criteria:
Tournaments | Standard events with under 50 players allowed | Rapid/Blitz allowed |
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1–5 | 4 | 1 |
6 | 4 | 2 |
7 | 5 | 2 |
- If player has 6 or 7 tournaments to count:
- No more than 4 or 5 respectively standard tournaments with the participation of less than 50 players can be counted.
- No more than 2 rapid/blitz tournaments can be counted.
- If player has 5 tournaments or less:
- No more than 4 standard tournaments with participation of less than 50 players can be counted.
- No more than 1 rapid/blitz tournament can be counted.
Tournaments that could be included in player's results are as follows:
- Official FIDE tournaments.
- National Championships.
- Other eligible tournaments, counting all tournaments with minimum TAR of 2650 and up to two lower tournaments per host country.
Tournaments
[edit]Eligible tournaments as of 14 October 2024.[2]
Tournament | Location | Date | Type | P# | TAR | Winner |
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Hastings Masters | Hastings | 28 December 2023 – 5 January 2024 | 105 | 2552 | Abhijeet Gupta | |
Tata Steel Masters | Wijk aan Zee | 12–28 January | 14 | 2752+3⁄4 | Wei Yi | |
Tata Steel Challengers | Wijk aan Zee | 12–28 January | 14 | 2637+3⁄4 | Leon Luke Mendonca | |
Djerba Masters | Djerba | 18–25 February | 8 | 2590+1⁄2 | Daniel Dardha | |
Prague Masters | Prague | 27 February – 7 March | 10 | 2727+1⁄4 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | |
Prague Challengers | Prague | 27 February – 7 March | 10 | 2575+3⁄4 | Ediz Gurel | |
Prague Open | Prague | 27 February – 7 March | 267 | 2567+3⁄4 | Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis | |
Shenzhen Masters | Shenzhen | 29 February – 7 March | 8 | 2698 | Bu Xiangzhi | |
Cappelle-la-Grande Open | Cappelle-la-Grande | 2–8 March | 382 | 2562+5⁄8 | Abhimanyu Puranik | |
Aeroflot Open | Moscow | 3–7 March | 142 | 2679+7⁄8 | Amin Tabatabaei | |
Reykjavik Open | Reykjavík | 15–21 March | 363 | 2602+3⁄4 | Bogdan-Daniel Deac | |
Fagernes Chess International | Fagernes | 24–31 March | 100 | 2568 | Rinat Jumabayev | |
Torneo International de Ajedrez de Roda | La Roda | 27–31 March | 210 | 2603+7⁄8 | Aravindh Chithambaram | |
Grenke Open | Karlsruhe | March 26 – April 1 | 935 | 2689+1⁄4 | Hans Niemann | |
Open Internacional de Ajedrez Semana Santa | Alicante | March 27 – April 1 | 417 | 2574+1⁄2 | Kirill Alekseenko | |
Menorca Open | Menorca | April 2–7 | 284 | 2676+5⁄8 | Arjun Erigaisi | |
Candidates | Toronto | April 3–22 | FIDE | 8 | 2744+7⁄8 | Gukesh Dommaraju |
Sunway Formentera Chess Festival | Formentera | April 9–19 | 51 | 2581+3⁄4 | Alexander Donchenko | |
Spring Chess Classic | St. Louis | April 11–20 | 10 | 2624+7⁄8 | Leon Luke Mendonca | |
TePe Sigeman & Co chess tournament | Malmö | April 27 – May 3 | 8 | 2676+7⁄8 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | |
Sardinia World Chess Festival | Orosei, Sardinia | April 27 – May 4 | 168 | 2658+1⁄2 | Daniel Dardha | |
Dubai Police Global Chess Challenge | Dubai | May 3–13 | 135 | 2694+3⁄8 | Pranav V | |
GCT Superbet Poland Rapid & Blitz | Warsaw | May 6–13 | Rapid & Blitz | 10 | 2762+3⁄8 | Magnus Carlsen |
Chinese Chess Championship | Xinghua | May 6–16 | National | 12 | 2570+1⁄4 | Wang Yue |
Sharjah Masters | Sharjah | May 13–23 | 88 | 2720+5⁄8 | Bardiya Daneshvar | |
Polish Chess Championship | Rzeszów | May 21–31 | National | 10 | 2586+1⁄2 | Radosław Wojtaszek |
Budapesti Tavaszi Fesztivál | Budapest | May 23–31 | 210 | 2597+5⁄8 | Yahli Sokolovsky | |
Americas Continental Championship | Medellin | May 24 – June 2 | FIDE | 387 | 2582+1⁄8 | Roberto García Pantoja |
Dubai Open | Dubai | May 25 – June 2 | 71 | 2608+1⁄2 | Mahammad Muradli | |
Vladimir Dvorkovich Memorial | Aktobe | May 25 – June 2 | 90 | 2682+3⁄8 | Parham Maghsoodloo | |
National Open | Las Vegas | June 5–9 | 136 | 2583+1⁄2 | Vasif Durarbayli | |
UzChess Cup Masters | Tashkent | June 6–14 | 10 | 2726+7⁄8 | Nodirbek Yakubboev | |
UzChess Cup Challengers | Tashkent | June 6–14 | 10 | 2625+5⁄8 | Shamsiddin Vokhidov | |
Stepan Avagyan Memorial | Jermuk | June 9–18 | 10 | 2679+7⁄8 | Arjun Erigaisi | |
Teplice Open | Teplice | June 15–23 | 240 | 2629 | Max Warmerdam | |
Serbian Chess Championship | Senta | June 17–25 | National | 10 | 2556+1⁄8 | Aleksandar Inđić |
Arona International Chess Festival | Arona, Tenerife | June 22–30 | 161 | 2584+7⁄8 | Xue Haowen | |
GCT Romania | Bucharest | June 24 – July 6 | 10 | 2761+1⁄4 | Fabiano Caruana | |
Baku Open | Baku | June 29 – July 7 | 126 | 2625 | Sina Movahed | |
Dutch Chess Championship | Utrecht | July 6–13 | National | 16 | 2586+3⁄8 | Max Warmerdam |
GCT Croatia | Zagreb | July 8–15 | Rapid & Blitz | 10 | 2753 | Fabiano Caruana |
Biel Chess Festival | Biel/Bienne | July 13–26 | 128 | 2593+3⁄4 | Rinat Jumabayev | |
DOLE Open/NEXTLANE Grand Prix | Aix-en-Provence | July 20–28 | 177 | 2627+7⁄8 | Pranesh M | |
GCT St. Louis Rapid and Blitz | St. Louis | August 10–17 | Rapid & Blitz | 10 | 2765+3⁄8 | Alireza Firouzja |
Internationale Dortmunder Schachtage | Dortmund | August 10–18 | 193 | 2582+7⁄8 | Nico Zwirs | |
Abu Dhabi Masters | Abu Dhabi | August 15–24 | 217 | 2677+1⁄4 | Nodirbek Yakubboev | |
Russian Championship | Barnaul | August 16–29 | National | 12 | 2668+3⁄4 | Vladislav Artemiev[a] |
Akiba Rubinstein Chess Festival | Polanica-Zdrój | August 17–25 | 10 | 2696+3⁄8 | Vincent Keymer | |
French Chess Championship | Alpe d'Huez | August 17–25 | National | 16 | 2577+1⁄4 | Jules Moussard |
Sinquefield Cup | St. Louis | August 17–29 | 10 | 2760+5⁄8 | Alireza Firouzja | |
Ibero-American Championships | Linares | September 24 – October 2 | 118 | 2569+7⁄8 | Alan Pichot | |
Gashimov Memorial | Shusha | September 25–30 | Rapid & Blitz | 8 | 2704+5⁄8 | Ian Nepomniachtchi[a] |
US Chess Championship | St. Louis | October 11–23 | National | 12 | 2727+1⁄4 | Fabiano Caruana |
Pavlodar Open Masters | Pavlodar | October 12–22 | 96 | 2585+7⁄8 | Aram Hakobyan | |
WR Chess Masters Cup | London | October 14–17 | 16 | 2754 | Arjun Erigaisi | |
Chennai Grand Masters | Chennai | November 5–11 | 8 | |||
European Chess Championship | Petrovac | November 7–20 | FIDE | |||
World Chess Championship | Singapore | November 20 – December 15 | FIDE | 2 | ||
International President Cup | Tashkent | November 21–27 | ||||
U.S. Masters Chess Championship | Charlotte | November 27 – December 1 | ||||
London Chess Classic | London | November 29 – December 8 | ||||
London Chess Classic – Open Section | London | November 29 – December 8 | ||||
Elllobregat Open Chess | Sant Boi de Llobregat | November 29 – December 8 | ||||
Saint Louis Masters | St. Louis | December 2–8 | ||||
European Rapid Chess Championship | Skopje | December 6–8 | Rapid FIDE |
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European Blitz Chess Championship | Skopje | December 9–11 | Blitz FIDE |
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World Rapid Chess Championship | New York City | December 26–28 | Rapid FIDE |
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Zurcher Weihnachtsopen | Zürich | December 26–30 | ||||
World Blitz Chess Championship | New York City | December 30–31 | Blitz FIDE |
Ranking
[edit]At the end of 2024, the best player in the Circuit will qualify for the Candidates Tournament 2026, provided that his final score consists of at least 5 tournaments (including at least 4 in standard time controls) and he played in at least 2 standard tournaments with participations of more than 50 players (if his final score consists of 6 or 7 tournaments) or at least 1 standard tournament with participations of more than 50 players (if his final score consists of 5 tournaments). The players who don't meet this criteria are marked in pink (as well as tournament results which can't be counted in final score per 2024 FIDE Circuit regulations). The current leader is marked in green. "(M)" denotes the Masters section of tournaments while "(Ch)" – Challenger section.
No. | Player | Points | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
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1 | Arjun Erigaisi | 102.79 | Shenzhen 3rd – 15.18 |
Grenke Open T 6th-7th – 6.99 |
Menorca 1st – 16.19 |
Malmö 2nd – 14.00 (T 2nd-3rd) |
Sharjah 7th – 5.24 |
Jermuk 1st – 19.79 |
WR Masters 1st – 25.40 |
2 | Fabiano Caruana | 96.92 | Candidates 4th – 15.92 |
GCT Romania 1st – 21.23 |
GCT Croatia 1st – 13.92 |
GCT St. Louis T 6th-7th – 0.00 |
Sinquefield Cup 2nd – 20.85 |
US Championship 1st – 25.00 | |
3 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 92.02 | Tata Steel (M) 3rd – 14.22 (T 2nd-4th) |
Prague (M) 1st – 25.00 |
Malmö 1st – 16.21 |
GCT Poland 6th – 0.00 |
Tashkent (M) 2nd – 19.28 |
Sinquefield Cup T 3rd-4th – 9.12 |
Shusha 2nd – 8.19 |
4 | Alireza Firouzja | 88.16 | Tata Steel (M) 5th – 0.00 |
Candidates 7th – 7.35 |
GCT Romania T 2nd-4th – 14.70 |
GCT Croatia T 2nd-4th – 6.33 |
GCT St. Louis 1st – 14.60 |
Sinquefield Cup 1st – 28.67 |
WR Masters T 3rd-4th – 16.51 |
5 | Amin Tabatabaei | 56.01 | Moscow 1st – 19.79 |
Dubai Police 6th – 7.64 |
Sharjah 5th – 7.45 |
Jermuk 3rd – 10.79 |
Abu Dhabi 5th – 10.34 | ||
6 | Gukesh Dommaraju | 55.86 | Tata Steel (M) 2nd – 14.22 (T 2nd-4th) |
Prague (M) 7th – 0.00 |
Candidates 1st – 26.94 |
GCT Poland 10th – 0.00 |
GCT Romania T 2nd-4th – 14.70 |
GCT Croatia 7th – 0.00 |
Sinquefield Cup T 5th-7th – 0.00 |
7 | R Praggnanandhaa | 54.81 | Tata Steel (M) 7th – 0.00 |
Prague (M) 4th – 11.36 (T 2nd-4th) |
Candidates 5th – 12.24 |
GCT Poland 4th – 0.00 |
GCT Romania T 2nd-4th – 14.70 |
Sinquefield Cup T 5th-7th – 0.00 |
WR Masters T 3rd-4th – 16.51 |
8 | Nodirbek Yakubboev | 48.87 | Moscow 3rd – 12.14 |
Dubai Police 51st – 0.00 |
Sharjah 86th – 0.00 |
Aktobe 12th – 0.41 (T 7th-17th) |
Tashkent (M) 1st – 21.55 |
Abu Dhabi 1st – 14.77 | |
9 | Leon Luke Mendonca | 47.50 | Tata Steel (Ch) 1st – 15.15 |
St. Louis (Spring) 1st – 13.74 |
Sharjah 28th – 0.00 |
Dubai Open 23rd – 0.00 |
Biel/Bienne 2nd – 7.38 |
Abu Dhabi 4th – 11.23 | |
10 | Shamsiddin Vokhidov | 41.10 | Moscow 34th – 0.00 |
Sharjah 4th – 15.17 |
Tashkent (Ch) 1st – 13.82 |
Abu Dhabi 3rd – 12.11 | |||
11 | Hans Niemann | 38.01 | Tata Steel (Ch) 7th – 0.00 |
Djerba 2nd – 7.69 |
Grenke Open 1st – 20.82 |
Dubai Police 7th – 6.66 |
Sharjah 15th – 0.00 |
US Championship 4th (T 2nd-7th) – 2.84 | |
12 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
35.77 | GCT Romania T 5th-7th – 0.00 |
GCT Croatia T 2nd-4th – 6.33 |
GCT St. Louis T 4th-5th – 0.00 |
Sinquefield Cup T 3rd-4th – 9.12 |
WR Masters 2nd – 20.32 | ||
13 | Daniel Dardha | 34.89 | Tata Steel (Ch) 2nd – 10.33 (T 2nd-3rd) |
Djerba 1st – 8.60 |
Menorca 8th – 1.89 |
Sardinia 1st – 14.07 | |||
14 | Parham Maghsoodloo | 33.35 | Tata Steel (M) 13th – 0.00 |
Prague (M) 3rd – 11.36 (T 2nd-4th) |
Sharjah 9th – 1.93 (T 5th-12th) |
Aktobe 1st – 20.06 |
Tashkent (M) 10th – 0.00 |
WR Masters R1 – 0.00 | |
15 | Volodar Murzin | 32.34 | Menorca 17th – 0.13 (T 8th-21st) |
Sardinia 3rd – 11.69 |
Dubai Police 58th – 0.00 |
Sharjah 2nd – 17.37 |
Jermuk 10th – 0.00 |
Abu Dhabi 7th – 3.15 | |
16 | Yu Yangyi | 32.22 | Shenzhen 2nd – 16.17 |
Dubai Police 22nd – 0.00 |
Sharjah 8th – 4.14 |
Tashkent (M) 3rd – 11.91 | |||
17 | Wei Yi | 31.04 | Tata Steel (M) 1st – 20.54 |
GCT Poland 2nd – 10.50 | |||||
18 | Abhimanyu Puranik | 30.61 | Cappelle-la-Grande 1st – 5.95 |
Fagernes 2nd – 5.78 |
Sharjah 14th – 0.00 |
Aktobe 11th – 0.41 (T 7th-17th) |
Baku 2nd – 9.84 |
Aix-en-Provence 3rd – 8.63 |
Abu Dhabi 22nd – 0.00 |
19 | Bu Xiangzhi | 28.64 | Shenzhen 1st – 18.15 |
Aktobe 4th – 10.49 | |||||
20 | Ian Nepomniachtchi[a] | 28.39 | Tata Steel (M) 8th – 0.00 |
Candidates 3rd – 17.14 |
GCT Romania T 5th-7th – 0.00 |
GCT Croatia 5th – 0.00 |
GCT St. Louis T 6th-7th – 0.00 |
Sinquefield Cup T 8th-9th – 0.00 |
Shusha 1st – 11.25 |
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "FIDE CIRCUIT 2024 REGULATIONS" (PDF). FIDE. 25 January 2024. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
- ^ a b "FIDE Circuit". fide.com. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
- ^ Doggers (PeterDoggers), Peter (2022-02-28). "FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus". Chess.com. Retrieved 2023-10-15.