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Gukesh Dommaraju won the 2024 World Chess Championship, becoming the youngest undisputed world chess champion at the age of 18.[1]

The Candidates Tournament and Women's Candidates Tournament were held concurrently for the first time to determine the challengers for the reigning world champions Ding Liren and Ju Wenjun.[2] The winners, Gukesh and Tan Zhongyi, advanced to the World Chess Championship 2024 and Women's World Chess Championship 2025 respectively.

The winner of the 2024 FIDE Circuit, which encompasses major tournaments held in 2024, will qualify for the 2026 Candidates Tournament. The World Championship runner-up, Ding Liren, will no longer get an automatic Candidates spot in the 2024–2026 cycle. Instead, the World Championship match will be an eligible tournament for the 2025 FIDE Circuit.[3]

Timeline

January 2024 FIDE Rankings
Rank Prev Player Rating Change
1 1 Norway Magnus Carlsen 2830 0
2 2 United States Fabiano Caruana 2804 +10
3 3 United States Hikaru Nakamura 2788 0
4 4 China Ding Liren 2780 0
5 5 FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi 2769 -2
6 6 France Alireza Firouzja 2759 -4
7 8 United States Wesley So 2757 +5
8 11 United States Leinier Domínguez 2752 +7
9 9 FIDE Sergey Karjakin 2750 0
10 7 Netherlands Anish Giri 2749 -5

January

February 2024 FIDE Rankings
Rank Prev Player Rating Change
1 1 Norway Magnus Carlsen 2830 0
2 2 United States Fabiano Caruana 2804 0
3 3 United States Hikaru Nakamura 2788 0
4 4 China Ding Liren 2762 -18
5 10 Netherlands Anish Giri 2762 +13
6 6 France Alireza Firouzja 2760 +1
7 5 FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi 2758 -11
8 7 United States Wesley So 2757 0
9 16 China Wei Yi 2755 +15
10 8 United States Leinier Domínguez 2752 0

February

March 2024 FIDE Rankings
Rank Prev Player Rating Change
1 1 Norway Magnus Carlsen 2830 0
2 2 United States Fabiano Caruana 2804 0
3 3 United States Hikaru Nakamura 2789 +1
4 4 China Ding Liren 2762 0
5 5 Netherlands Anish Giri 2762 0
6 6 France Alireza Firouzja 2760 0
7 7 FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi 2758 0
8 8 United States Wesley So 2757 0
9 9 China Wei Yi 2755 0
10 12 India Viswanathan Anand 2751 +3

March

April 2024 FIDE Rankings
Rank Prev Player Rating Change
1 1 Norway Magnus Carlsen 2830 0
2 2 United States Fabiano Caruana 2803 -1
3 3 United States Hikaru Nakamura 2789 0
4 11 Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov 2765 +15
5 4 China Ding Liren 2762 0
6 6 France Alireza Firouzja 2760 0
7 7 FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi 2758 0
8 8 United States Wesley So 2757 0
9 14 India Arjun Erigaisi 2756 +8
10 9 China Wei Yi 2755 0

April

June

  • Jun 1 – Ethan Pang becomes the youngest player to surpass a FIDE rating of 2200.[31]

July

  • Jul 18 – Shama Yisrael becomes the first African-American woman to achieve the rank of National Master.[32]

August

  • Aug 6 – Jessica Hyatt becomes the second African-American woman to achieve the rank of National Master.[33]

November

  • Nov 1 – Ethan Pang becomes the youngest player to surpass a FIDE rating of 2300.[34]
  • Nov 1 – Anish Sarkar becomes the youngest FIDE-rated player, with a rating of 1556 at the age of 3 years, 8 months, and 19 days.[35]

Events

World Championship

Main article: World Chess Championship 2024
World Chess Championship 2024
Rating Match games Points
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
 Gukesh Dommaraju (IND) 2783 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 7½
 Ding Liren (CHN) 2728 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 0 6½

Major tournaments

Tournament City System Dates Players (2700+) Winner Runner-up Third
Tata Steel Masters Netherlands Wijk aan Zee Round robin 13 – 28 Jan 14 (10) China Wei Yi India Gukesh Dommaraju Netherlands Anish Giri
Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov
Prague Masters Czech Republic Prague Round robin 27 Feb – 7 Mar 10 (7) Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov Czech Republic Thai Dai Van Nguyen Iran Parham Maghsoodloo
Shenzhen Masters China Shenzhen Round robin 29 Feb – 7 Mar 8 (5) China Bu Xiangzhi China Yu Yangyi India Arjun Erigaisi
Candidates Tournament Canada Toronto Double round robin 3 – 22 Apr 8 (7) India Gukesh Dommaraju United States Hikaru Nakamura FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi[b]
TePe Sigeman & Co tournament Sweden Malmö Round robin 27 Apr – 3 May 8 (3) Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov India Arjun Erigaisi FIDE Peter Svidler
Norway Chess Norway Stavanger Double round robin 29 May – 7 Jun 6 (6) Norway Magnus Carlsen United States Hikaru Nakamura India R Praggnanandhaa
UzChess Cup Masters Uzbekistan Tashkent Round robin 6 – 14 Jun 10 (8) Uzbekistan Nodirbek Yakubboev Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov China Yu Yangyi
GCT Romania Romania Bucharest Round robin 24 Jun – 6 Jul 10 (9) United States Fabiano Caruana France Alireza Firouzja India Gukesh Dommaraju
Biel Chess Festival Switzerland Biel/Bienne Multi-stage 14 – 25 Jul 6 (3) Vietnam Le Quang Liem Armenia Haik M. Martirosyan India R Praggnanandhaa
Akiba Rubinstein Festival Poland Polanica-Zdrój Round robin 17 – 25 Aug 10 (3) Germany Vincent Keymer Czech Republic David Navara United States Sam Shankland
Sinquefield Cup United States St. Louis Round robin 19 – 28 Aug 10 (10) France Alireza Firouzja United States Fabiano Caruana France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov
Chess Olympiad Hungary Budapest Swiss 10 – 23 Sep Teams India India United States United States Uzbekistan Uzbekistan
WR Chess Masters Cup United Kingdom London Single elimination 14 – 17 Oct 16 (9) India Arjun Erigaisi France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave India R Praggnanandhaa
France Alireza Firouzja
Chennai Grand Masters India Chennai Round robin 5 – 11 Oct 8 (6) India Aravindh Chithambaram United States Levon Aronian India Arjun Erigaisi

Opens

Tournament City TAR Dates Players Winner Runner-up Third
Aeroflot Open Russia Moscow 2679+7⁄8 2 – 8 Mar 142 Iran Amin Tabatabaei FIDE Andrey Esipenko Uzbekistan Nodirbek Yakubboev
Grenke Open Germany Karlsruhe 2689+1⁄4 26 Mar – 1 Apr 935 United States Hans Niemann Croatia Ivan Šarić Slovenia Vladimir Fedoseev
Menorca Open Spain Menorca 2676+5⁄8 2 – 7 Apr 284 India Arjun Erigaisi Austria Kirill Alekseenko Spain Maksim Chigaev
Dubai Police Global Chess Challenge United Arab Emirates Dubai 2694+3⁄8 3 – 13 May 135 India Pranav V India Aravindh Chithambaram India Pranesh M
Sharjah Masters United Arab Emirates Sharjah 2720+5⁄8 13 – 23 May 88 Iran Bardiya Daneshvar FIDE Volodar Murzin United States Sam Shankland
Vladimir Dvorkovich Memorial Kazakhstan Aktobe 2682+3⁄8 25 May – 2 Jun 90 Iran Parham Maghsoodloo Serbia Alexandr Predke Serbia Alexey Sarana
Abu Dhabi Masters United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 2677+1⁄4 15 – 24 Aug 217 Uzbekistan Nodirbek Yakubboev FIDE David Paravyan Uzbekistan Shamsiddin Vokhidov
European Championship Montenegro Petrovac 2678+3⁄8 7 – 20 Nov 388 Serbia Aleksandar Inđić Belgium Daniel Dardha Germany Frederik Svane
International President Cup Uzbekistan Tashkent 2691+3⁄4 21 – 29 Nov 120 India Nihal Sarin Uzbekistan Javokhir Sindarov Iran Parham Maghsoodloo
Saint Louis Masters United States St. Louis 2682+1⁄8 3 – 7 Dec 59 United States Fabiano Caruana
Germany Alexander Donchenko 		United States Samuel Sevian
Qatar Masters Open Qatar Doha 2714+1⁄2 3 – 12 Dec 138 FIDE Andrey Esipenko India Arjun Erigaisi Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov

Women's events

Tournament City System Dates Players (2500+) Winner Runner-up Third
Women's Candidates Tournament Canada Toronto Double round robin 3 – 22 Apr 8 (6) China Tan Zhongyi India Humpy Koneru China Lei Tingjie
Women's Norway Chess Norway Stavanger Double round robin 29 May – 7 Jun 6 (4) China Ju Wenjun Ukraine Anna Muzychuk China Lei Tingjie
Cairns Cup United States St. Louis Round robin 13 – 23 Jun 10 (5) China Tan Zhongyi Ukraine Anna Muzychuk India Harika Dronavalli
Ukraine Mariya Muzychuk
Georgia (country) Nana Dzagnidze
Switzerland Alexandra Kosteniuk
Tbilisi FIDE Women's Grand Prix Georgia (country) Tbilisi Round robin 14 – 25 Aug 10 (3) Poland Alina Kashlinskaya Kazakhstan Bibisara Assaubayeva Greece Stavroula Tsolakidou
Women's Chess Olympiad Hungary Budapest Swiss 10 – 23 Sep Teams India India Kazakhstan Kazakhstan United States United States
Hoogeveen Crown group Netherlands Hoogeveen Double round robin 28 Oct – 2 Nov 4 (1) Netherlands Eline Roebers Switzerland Alexandra Kosteniuk Ukraine Mariya Muzychuk
Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix Kazakhstan Shymkent Round robin 30 Oct – 8 Nov 10 (4) FIDE Aleksandra Goryachkina China Tan Zhongyi Kazakhstan Bibisara Assaubayeva

National events

Tournament City System Dates Players Winner Runner-up Third
American Cup United States St. Louis Double elimination 12 – 21 Mar 8 Levon Aronian Wesley So Ray Robson
Azerbaijani Championship Azerbaijan Baku Multi-stage 11 – 26 Apr 20 Aydin Suleymanli Mahammad Muradli Vugar Rasulov
Chinese Championship China Xinghua Round robin 6 – 16 May 12 Wang Yue Chenxi Zhao Xu Xiangyu
Polish Championship Poland Rzeszów Round robin 22 – 30 May 10 Radosław Wojtaszek Jacek Tomczak Mateusz Bartel
Serbian Championship Serbia Senta Round robin 17 – 25 Jun 10 Aleksandar Inđić Robert Markuš Alexey Sarana
Dutch Championship Netherlands Utrecht Single elimination 6 – 13 Jul 16 Max Warmerdam Sergei Tiviakov Benjamin Bok
Ivan Sokolov
Indian Championship India Gurgaon Swiss 17 – 27 Aug 341 Karthik Venkataraman Surya Shekhar Ganguly Neelash Saha
Russian Championship Russia Barnaul Round robin 17 – 28 Aug 12 Vladislav Artemiev Andrey Esipenko Daniil Dubov
French Championship France Alpe d'Huez Single elimination 18 – 27 Aug 16 Jules Moussard Laurent Fressinet Romain Édouard
US Championship United States St. Louis Round robin 11 – 23 Oct 11 Fabiano Caruana Ray Robson Awonder Liang

Deaths

See also

Notes

  1. ^ For more information, see Candidates Tournament 2024#FIDE Rating qualifier.
  2. ^ Russian players' flags are displayed as the FIDE flag, as Russian and Belarusian flags have been banned from FIDE-rated events in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[36]

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