2024 FIDE Circuit
2024 FIDE Circuit | |
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Duration | 28 December 2023 – 15 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
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
Event points
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
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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
For World Chess Championship 2024, the winner will get points calculated as 1st place basic points multipled by the strength factor, but with its TAR value using winner's performance rating instead.
Player's total and ranking
A player's point total for the ranking is the sum of their best 7 tournaments with the following criteria:
- If player has 6 or more tournaments to count:
- No more than 5 tournaments with 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 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
Eligible tournaments as of 11 June 2024.[2]
Tournament | Location | Date | Type | P# | TAR | Winner |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hastings Masters | ![]() |
28 December 2023 – 5 January 2024 | 105 | 2552 | ![]() | |
Tata Steel Masters | ![]() |
12–28 January | 14 | 2752+3⁄4 | ![]() | |
Tata Steel Challengers | ![]() |
12–28 January | 14 | 2637+3⁄4 | ![]() | |
Djerba Masters | ![]() |
18–25 February | 8 | 2590+1⁄2 | ![]() | |
Prague Masters | ![]() |
27 February – 7 March | 10 | 2727+1⁄4 | ![]() | |
Prague Challengers | ![]() |
27 February – 7 March | 10 | 2575+3⁄4 | ![]() | |
Prague Open | ![]() |
27 February – 7 March | 267 | 2567+3⁄4 | ![]() | |
Shenzhen Masters | ![]() |
29 February – 7 March | 8 | 2698 | ![]() | |
Cappelle-la-Grande Open | ![]() |
2–8 March | 382 | 2562+5⁄8 | ![]() | |
Aeroflot Open | ![]() |
3–7 March | 142 | 2679+7⁄8 | ![]() | |
Reykjavik Open | ![]() |
15–21 March | 363 | 2602+3⁄4 | ![]() | |
Fagernes Chess International | ![]() |
24–31 March | 100 | 2568 | ![]() | |
Torneo International de Ajedrez de Roda | ![]() |
27–31 March | 210 | 2603+7⁄8 | ![]() | |
Grenke Open | ![]() |
March 26 – April 1 | 935 | 2689+1⁄4 | ![]() | |
Open Internacional de Ajedrez Semana Santa | ![]() |
March 27 – April 1 | 417 | 2574+1⁄2 | ![]() | |
Menorca Open | ![]() |
April 2–7 | 284 | 2676+5⁄8 | ![]() | |
Candidates | ![]() |
April 3–22 | FIDE | 8 | 2744+7⁄8 | ![]() |
Sunway Formentera Chess Festival | ![]() |
April 9–19 | 51 | 2581+3⁄4 | ![]() | |
Spring Chess Classic | ![]() |
April 11–20 | 10 | 2624+7⁄8 | ![]() | |
TePe Sigeman & Co chess tournament | ![]() |
April 27 – May 3 | 8 | 2676+7⁄8 | ![]() | |
Sardinia World Chess Festival | ![]() |
April 27 – May 4 | 168 | 2658+1⁄2 | ![]() | |
Dubai Police Global Chess Challenge | ![]() |
May 3–13 | 135 | 2694+3⁄8 | ![]() | |
GCT Superbet Poland Rapid & Blitz | ![]() |
May 6–13 | Rapid & Blitz | 10 | 2762+3⁄8 | ![]() |
Chinese Chess Championship | ![]() |
May 6–16 | National | 12 | 2570+1⁄4 | ![]() |
Sharjah Masters | ![]() |
May 13–23 | 88 | 2720+5⁄8 | ![]() | |
Polish Chess Championship | ![]() |
May 21–31 | National | 10 | 2586+1⁄2 | ![]() |
Budapesti Tavaszi Fesztivál | ![]() |
May 23–31 | 210 | 2597+5⁄8 | ![]() | |
Americas Continental Championship | ![]() |
May 24 – June 2 | FIDE | 387 | 2582+1⁄8 | ![]() |
Dubai Open | ![]() |
May 25 – June 2 | 71 | 2608+1⁄2 | ![]() | |
Vladimir Dvorkovich Memorial | ![]() |
May 25 – June 2 | 90 | 2682+3⁄8 | ![]() | |
National Open | ![]() |
June 5–9 | 136 | 2583+1⁄2 | ![]() | |
UzChess Cup Masters | ![]() |
June 6–14 | 10 | 2726+7⁄8 | ![]() | |
UzChess Cup Challengers | ![]() |
June 6–14 | 10 | 2625+5⁄8 | ![]() | |
Stepan Avagyan Memorial | ![]() |
June 9–18 | 10 | 2679+7⁄8 | ![]() | |
Teplice Open | ![]() |
June 15–23 | 240 | |||
GCT Romania | ![]() |
June 24 – July 6 | 10 | |||
GCT Croatia | ![]() |
July 8–15 | Rapid & Blitz | |||
Biel Chess Festival | ![]() |
July 13–26 | ||||
DOLE Open/NEXTLANE Grand Prix | ![]() |
July 20–28 | ||||
GCT St. Louis Rapid and Blitz | ![]() |
August 10–17 | Rapid & Blitz | |||
Internationale Dortmunder Schachtage | ![]() |
August 10–18 | ||||
Akiba Rubinstein Chess Festival | ![]() |
August 17–25 | ||||
Sinquefield Cup | ![]() |
August 17–31 | 10 | |||
Abu Dhabi Masters | ![]() |
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Ibero-American Championships | ![]() |
September 24 – October 2 | ||||
WR Chess Masters Cup | ![]() |
October 14–17 | ||||
WR Chess Masters | ![]() |
October 31 – November 3 | ||||
WR Chess Masters Cup – DSK Open | ![]() |
November 22–29 | ||||
US Masters | ![]() |
November 27 – December 1 | ||||
London Chess Classic | ![]() |
November 29 – December 8 | ||||
London Chess Classic – Open Section | ![]() |
November 29 – December 8 | ||||
Zurcher Weihnachtsopen | ![]() |
December 26–30 |
Ranking
At the end of 2024, the best player in the Circuit will qualify for the Candidates Tournament 2026, provided that they have played 5 eligible tournaments, including at least 4 in standard time controls. The current leader is marked in green.
No. | Player | Points | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() |
77.39 | ![]() 3rd – 15.18 |
![]() T 6th-7th – 6.99 |
![]() 1st – 16.19 |
![]() T 2nd-3rd – 14.00 |
![]() 5th – 0.00 |
![]() 7th – 5.24 |
![]() 1st – 19.79 |
2 | ![]() |
74.71 | ![]() T 2nd-4th – 14.22 |
![]() 1st – 25.00 |
![]() 1st – 16.21 |
![]() 6th – 0.00 |
![]() 2nd – 19.28 | ||
3 | ![]() |
45.67 | ![]() 1st – 19.79 |
![]() 6th – 7.64 |
![]() 5th – 7.45 |
![]() 3rd – 10.79 | |||
4 | ![]() |
41.16 | ![]() T 2nd-4th – 14.22 |
![]() T 5th-7th – 0.00 |
![]() 1st – 26.94 |
![]() 10th – 0.00 | |||
5 | ![]() |
35.17 | ![]() T 7th-8th – 0.00 |
![]() 2nd – 7.69 |
![]() 1st – 20.82 |
![]() 7th – 6.66 |
![]() 15th – 0.00 | ||
6 | ![]() |
34.89 | ![]() T 2nd-3rd – 10.33 |
![]() 1st – 8.60 |
![]() 8th – 1.89 |
![]() 1st – 14.07 | |||
7 | ![]() |
34.10 | ![]() 3rd – 12.14 |
![]() 51st – 0.00 |
![]() 86th – 0.00 |
![]() 12th – 0.41 |
![]() 1st – 21.55 | ||
8 | ![]() |
33.35 | ![]() T 10th-13th – 0.00 |
![]() T 2nd-4th – 11.36 |
![]() T 9th-12th – 1.93 |
![]() 1st – 20.06 |
![]() 10th – 0.00 | ||
9 | ![]() |
32.22 | ![]() 2nd – 16.17 |
![]() 22nd – 0.00 |
![]() 8th – 4.14 |
![]() 3rd – 11.91 | |||
10 | ![]() |
31.04 | ![]() 1st – 20.54 |
![]() 2nd – 10.50 | |||||
11 | ![]() |
29.19 | ![]() 17th – 0.13 |
![]() 3rd – 11.69 |
![]() 58th – 0.00 |
![]() 2nd – 17.37 |
![]() 10th – 0.00 | ||
12 | ![]() |
28.99 | ![]() 34th – 0.00 |
![]() 4th – 15.17 |
![]() 1st – 13.82 | ||||
13 | ![]() |
28.89 | ![]() 1st – 15.15 |
![]() 1st – 13.74 |
![]() 28th – 0.00 |
![]() 23th – 0.00 | |||
14 | ![]() |
28.64 | ![]() 1st – 18.15 |
![]() 4th – 10.49 | |||||
15 | ![]() |
26.17 | ![]() 1st – 9.52 |
![]() 16th – 0.13 |
![]() 2nd – 16.52 |
![]() 13th – 0.00 | |||
16 | ![]() |
24.64 | ![]() 2nd – 14.59 |
![]() 2nd – 10.05 | |||||
17 | ![]() |
24.40 | ![]() 12th – 0.00 |
![]() 28th – 0.00 |
![]() 3rd – 5.93 |
![]() 1st – 18.47 |
![]() 23rd – 0.00 | ||
18 | ![]() |
23.75 | ![]() 3rd – 10.30 |
![]() 4th – 9.27 |
![]() 6th – 4.18 |
![]() 41st – 0.00 | |||
19 | ![]() |
23.60 | ![]() T 5th-7th – 0.00 |
![]() T 2nd-4th – 11.36 |
![]() 5th – 12.24 |
![]() 4th – 0.00 | |||
20 | ![]() |
22.62 | ![]() 1st – 8.20 |
![]() 2nd – 14.42 |
References
- ^ 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.