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2024 in chess

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

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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June

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

July

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

November

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  • Nov 1 – Ethan Pang becomes the youngest player to surpass a FIDE rating of 2300.[33]
  • 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.[34]

Events

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World Championship

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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

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

Opens

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

Women's events

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

National events

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

Deaths

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See also

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Notes

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  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.[35]

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