Chess World Cup
Winners
"Qual" refers to the number of players who qualify for the Candidates Tournament (marked with green background). For example, in 2015, the top 2 finishers qualified for the 2016 Candidates Tournament.

Chess World Cup

Section Title: Winners
Table Section Text: "Qual" refers to the number of players who qualify for the Candidates Tournament (marked with green background). For example, in 2015, the top 2 finishers qualified for the 2016 Candidates Tournament.

Year	Dates	Host	Players	Qual.	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place

2005	27 Nov – 17 Dec	Russia Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia	128	10	Armenia Levon Aronian	Ukraine Ruslan Ponomariov	France Étienne Bacrot	Russia Alexander Grischuk

2007	24 Nov – 16 Dec	Russia Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia	128	1	United States Gata Kamsky	Spain Alexei Shirov	Norway Magnus Carlsen and Ukraine Sergey Karjakin

2009	20 Nov – 14 Dec	Russia Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia	128	1	Israel Boris Gelfand	Ukraine Ruslan Ponomariov	Ukraine Sergey Karjakin and Russia Vladimir Malakhov

2011	26 Aug – 21 Sep	Russia Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia	128	3	Russia Peter Svidler	Russia Alexander Grischuk	Ukraine Vassily Ivanchuk	Ukraine Ruslan Ponomariov

2013	10 Aug – 4 Sep	Norway Tromsø, Norway	128	2	Russia Vladimir Kramnik	Russia Dmitry Andreikin	Russia Evgeny Tomashevsky and France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

2015	10 Sep – 5 Oct	Azerbaijan Baku, Azerbaijan	128	2	Russia Sergey Karjakin	Russia Peter Svidler	Netherlands Anish Giri and Ukraine Pavel Eljanov

2017	2–27 Sep	Georgia (country) Tbilisi, Georgia	128	2	Armenia Levon Aronian	China Ding Liren	United States Wesley So and France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

2019	4–30 Nov	Russia Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia	128	2	TBD	TBD	TBD

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Since 2005, Chess World Cup has been a 128-player chess tournament, forming part of the qualification.

final_sentence: Since 2005, Chess World Cup has been a 128-player chess tournament, forming part of the qualification.