Candidates Tournament 2024

The Candidates Tournament 2024 was an eight-person chess tournament to decide who would advance to the World Championship to challenge Ding Liren in the World Chess Championship 2024. It was won by Gukesh Dommaraju, who went on to defeat Liren and become World Chess Champion.Since 2013, the tournament operated as a round- robin tournament.
Player Selection
The following players qualified and competed in the tournament:
Qualification methodPlayerAge RatingWorld
ranking(April 2024)2023 World Championship runner-up Ian Nepomniachtchi27587The top three finishers in the Chess World Cup 2023 Magnus Carlsen 28301 R Praggnanandhaa 274714 Fabiano Caruana 28032 Nijat Abasov 2632114The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2023 Vidit Gujrathi 272725 Hikaru Nakamura 27893Highest place in the 2023 FIDE Circuit not already qualified Gukesh Dommaraju274316Highest rating for January 2024 not already qualified Alireza Firouzja27606

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