FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament

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

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The 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

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References

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  1. ^ "FIDE reforms the qualifications paths to the Candidates Tournament". www.fide.com.
  2. ^ "Grand Swiss - Firouzja and Caruana in the Candidates". Chess News. November 7, 2021.
  3. ^ "FIDE Grand Swiss: Mixed luck for Indian players". October 29, 2021.