The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament is a Swiss-system chess tournament, forming part of the qualification for the World Chess Championship.[1][2][3]
Editions and winners
editThe players who qualify for the Candidates Tournament are marked with green background. The players who otherwise qualified for the Candidates Tournament before the start of the Grand Swiss Tournament are marked with blue background. In 2019, Alekseenko emerging third in the Grand Swiss made him eligible for the wild card nomination, which is how he qualified to the Candidates Tournament 2020–2021.
| Edition | Host city | Players | Winner | Runner-up | Third |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 |  Santon |
154 |  Wang Hao |
 Fabiano Caruana |
 Kirill Alekseenko
|
| 2021 |  Riga |
108 |  Alireza Firouzja |
Fabiano Caruana |
Grigoriy Oparin
|
| 2023 | Douglas |
114 |  Vidit Gujrathi |
Hikaru Nakamura |
 Andrey Esipenko
|
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "FIDE reforms the qualifications paths to the Candidates Tournament". www.fide.com.
- ^ "Grand Swiss - Firouzja and Caruana in the Candidates". Chess News. November 7, 2021.
- ^ "FIDE Grand Swiss: Mixed luck for Indian players". October 29, 2021.
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