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Candidates tournament 2024
Classic 120+30
FIDE Rated
Toronto
Apr 2 - Apr 10
Organizer
FIDE
Participation
Invitation-only
System
Swiss
Region
Worldwide
Players
8
Rounds
14
Status
Upcoming

The 2024 Candidates Tournament will be an eight-player chess tournament, held to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2024. It is scheduled to take place at The Great Hall in Toronto, Canada, from April 2–25, 2024.

As with every Candidates tournament since 2013, it will be a double round-robin tournament. The winner of the tournament will earn the right to play the World Chess Championship 2024 against the current World Chess Champion Ding Liren.

Org. FIDE,
Invitation-only,
14 rounds
(Swiss) ∙
Upcoming ∙
Apr 02, 18:00
Ends Apr 10
  • Round 1
  • Round 2
  • Round 3
  • Round 4
  • Round 5
  • Round 6
  • Round 7
  • Round 8
  • Round 9
  • Round 10
  • Round 11
  • Round 12
  • Round 13
  • Round 14
Standings
Points
Players
Rating
From
Games
Tie-breaks
About Tournament

The time control is 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, plus a 30-second increment per move starting from move 41. Players get 1 point for a win, ½ point for a draw and 0 points for a loss.

Tiebreaks for the first place are addressed as follows:

Players would play two rapid chess games at 15 minutes plus 10 seconds per move. If a three- to six-way tie had occurred, a single round-robin would be played. If seven or eight players had been tied, a single round-robin would be played with a time limit of 10 minutes plus 5 seconds per move.


If any players had still been tied for first after the rapid chess games, they would play two blitz chess games at 3 minutes plus 2 seconds per move. In the case of more than two players being tied, a single round-robin would be played.


If any players were still tied for first after these blitz chess games, the remaining players would play a knock-out blitz tournament at the same time control. In each mini-match of the proposed knock-out tournament, the first player to win a game would win the mini-match.
Ties for places other than first will be broken by, in order: (1) Sonneborn–Berger score; (2) total number of wins; (3) head-to-head score among tied players; (4) drawing of lots.

 

The prize money is €48,000 for first place, €36,000 for second place, and €24,000 for third place (with players on the same number of points sharing prize money, irrespective of tie-breaks), plus €3,500 per half-point for every player, for a total prize pool of €500,000.