# FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025

The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 will be a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, in September 2025. It forms part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2026. It will be an 11-round Swiss-system tournament. The winner and runner-up of the tournament will earn the right to play in the Candidates Tournament 2026. The Women’s section will be held in parallel at the same time and venue, and its top two finishers will qualify for the Women's Candidates Tournament.

## Format

The tournament has an 11-round Swiss format.
The games use a classical time control of 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30 second increment from move 1.

### Tie-breaks

Tie-breaks between players who finish on the same score will be determined, in order, by the following tie-breaks:
* Average Rating of Opponents Cut 1
* Buchholz Cut 1
* Buchholz
* Direct encounter between the tied players
* Drawing of lots.

### Venue and schedule

The tournament is scheduled to take place September 3-15, 2025 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

## Qualifiers

109 players will qualify for the FIDE Grand Swiss.
Rating Qualifiers :
| Rank | Name | Nov. 2024 Rating |
| 1 | Fabiano Caruana | 2805 |
| 2 | Hikaru Nakamura | 2802 |
| 3 | Arjun Erigaisi | 2799 |
| 4 | Gukesh D | 2783 |
| 5 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 2777 |
| 6 | Alireza Firouzja | 2763 |
| 7 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2755 |
| 8 | Wei Yi | 2753 |
| 9 | Wesley So | 2747 |
| 10 | Leinier Dominguez Perez | 2741 |
| 11 | Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 2740 |
| 12 | Vidit Gujrathi | 2739 |
| 13 | Levon Aronian | 2739 |
| 14 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | 2738 |
| 15 | R Praggnanandhaa | 2737 |
| 16 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2737 |
| 17 | Hans Niemann | 2734 |
| 18 | Vincent Keymer | 2733 |
| 19 | Anish Giri | 2733 |
| 20 | Ding Liren | 2728 |
| 21 | Yu Yangyi | 2724 |
| 22 | Richard Rapport | 2721 |
| 23 | Vladimir Fedoseev | 2712 |
| 24 | Parham Maghsoodloo | 2712 |
| 25 | Aravindh Chithambaram | 2706 |
| 26 | Vladislav Artemiev | 2701 |
| 27 | Ray Robson | 2700 |
| 28 | Samuel Sevian | 2696 |
| 29 | Pentala Harikrishna | 2695 |
| 30 | Daniil Dubov | 2693 |
| 31 | Alexander Grischuk | 2689 |
| 32 | Bogdan-Daniel Deac | 2687 |
| 33 | Jorden Van Foreest | 2687 |
| 34 | Awonder Liang | 2687 |
| 35 | M. Amin Tabatabaei | 2686 |
| 36 | Bu Xiangzhi | 2684 |
| 37 | Javokhir Sindarov | 2682 |
| 38 | Andrey Esipenko | 2682 |
| 39 | Shamsiddin Vokhidov | 2681 |
| 40 | Alexey Sarana | 2679 |
| 41 | Raunak Sadhwani | 2677 |
| 42 | Nihal Sarin | 2676 |
| 43 | Haik Martirosyan | 2676 |
| 44 | David Navara | 2674 |
| 45 | Kirill Alekseenko | 2673 |
| 46 | Pavel Eljanov | 2672 |
| 47 | Sam Shankland | 2672 |
| 48 | David Anton Guijarro | 2671 |
| 49 | Thai Dai Van Nguyen | 2670 |
| 50 | Ivan Saric | 2668 |
| 51 | Nikita Vitiugov | 2668 |
| 52 | Nodirbek Yakubboev | 2668 |
| 53 | Volodar Murzin | 2664 |
| 54 | Michael Adams | 2662 |
| 55 | Johan-Sebastian Christiansen | 2661 |
| 56 | Radoslaw Wojtaszek | 2658 |
| 57 | Shant Sargsyan | 2655 |
| 58 | Matthias Bluebaum | 2654 |
| 59 | Frederik Svane | 2654 |
| 60 | Jonas Buhl Bjerre | 2654 |
| 61 | Grigoriy Oparin | 2653 |
| 62 | Kirill Shevchenko | 2653 |
| 63 | Ruslan Ponomariov | 2653 |
| 64 | Etienne Bacrot | 2653 |
| 65 | Max Warmerdam | 2653 |
| 66 | Abhimanyu Puranik | 2652 |
| 67 | Alexandr Predke | 2652 |
| 68 | Benjamin Gledura | 2652 |
| 69 | Rauf Mamedov | 2651 |
| 70 | Andrei Volokitin | 2649 |
| 71 | Alan Pichot | 2649 |
| 72 | Sanan Sjugirov | 2649 |
| 73 | S.L. Narayanan | 2647 |
| 74 | Bassem Amin | 2647 |
| 75 | Alexei Shirov | 2646 |
| 76 | Nils Grandelius | 2645 |
| 77 | Dmitrij Kollars | 2641 |
| 78 | Vasyl Ivanchuk | 2640 |
| 79 | Wang Yue | 2640 |
| 80 | Gabriel Sargissian | 2640 |
| 81 | Gawain Jones | 2639 |
| 82 | Francisco Vallejo Pons | 2638 |
| 83 | Ma Qun | 2638 |
| 84 | Aryan Chopra | 2637 |
| 85 | Evgeniy Najer | 2637 |
| 86 | Anton Korobov | 2636 |
| 87 | Maxim Rodshtein | 2636 |
| 88 | Jeffery Xiong | 2636 |
| 89 | Hrant Melkumyan | 2636 |
| 90 | Arkadij Naiditsch | 2636 |
| 91 | Ediz Gurel | 2635 |
| 92 | Li Chao | 2635 |
| 93 | Yuriy Kryvoruchko | 2633 |
| 94 | Hou Yifan | 2633 |
| 95 | Ivan Cheparinov | 2632 |
| 96 | Aydin Suleymanli | 2632 |
| 97 | Leon Luke Mendonca | 2631 |
| 98 | Daniil Yuffa | 2631 |
| 99 | Jaime Santos Latasa | 2630 |
| 100 | Rasmus Svane | 2628 |
Top 100 Players who did not meet the Activity Requirement:
| Name | Nov. 2024 Rating | Games Played Dec 2023-Nov 2024 |
| Magnus Carlsen | 2831 | 26 |
| Viswanathan Anand | 2750 | 7 |
| Le Quang Liem | 2739 | 17 |
| Veselin Topalov | 2717 | 2 |
| Wang Hao | 2703 | 21 |
| Teimour Radjabov | 2698 | 22 |
| Peter Svidler | 2698 | 7 |
| Dmitry Andreikin | 2695 | 20 |
| Rustam Kasimdzhanov | 2685 | 19 |
| David Howell | 2673 | 25 |
| Peter Leko | 2666 | 9 |
| Boris Gelfand | 2657 | 20 |
| Alexander Morozevich | 2655 | 7 |
| Ernesto Inarkiev | 2650 | 7 |
| Ni Hua | 2649 | 2 |
| Ngoc Truong Son Nguyen | 2646 | 10 |
| Vladimir Malakhov | 2642 | 12 |