FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025

FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025

Tournament information
Sport	Chess
Administrator	FIDE
Format	11-round Swiss-system tournament

The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 will be a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, in the first half of 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.

Qualifiers

Rank	Name	Nov. 2024 Rating
1	Carlsen, Magnus	2786
2	Fabiano Caruana	2780
3	Hikaru Nakamura	2777
4	Arjun Erigaisi	2760
5	Gukesh D	2758
6	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	2752
7	Alireza Firouzja	2742
8	Ian Nepomniachtchi	2738
9	Wei, Yi	2727
10	Viswanathan Anand	2726
11	Wesley So	2720
12	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	2717
13	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	2716
14	Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	2716
15	Levon Aronian	2716
16	Le Quang Liem	2712
17	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2711
18	R Praggnanandhaa	2707
19	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2707
20	Hans Niemann	2701
21	Vincent Keymer	2698
22	Anish Giri	2698
23	Ding, Liren	2697
24	Yu, Yangyi	2696
25	Richard Rapport	2694
26	Veselin Topalov	2693
27	Vladimir Fedoseev	2691
28	Parham Maghsoodloo	2689
29	Aravindh, Chithambaram VR.	2689
30	Wang, Hao	2686
31	Vladislav Artemiev	2685
32	Ray Robson	2683
33	Teimour Radjabov	2682
34	Peter Svidler	2680
35	Samuel Sevian	2679
36	Dmitry Andreikin	2676
37	Pentala Harikrishna	2674
38	Daniil Dubov	2671
39	Alexander Grischuk	2669
40	Bogdan-Daniel Deac	2668
41	Jorden Van Foreest	2668
42	Awonder Liang	2667
43	Tabatabaei, M. Amin	2664
44	Rustam Kasimdzhanov	2658
45	Bu, Xiangzhi	2658
46	Javokhir Sindarov	2658
47	Andrey Esipenko	2656
48	Vokhidov, Shamsiddin	2655
49	Alexey Sarana	2653
50	Raunak Sadhwani	2653
51	Nihal Sarin	2651
52	Martirosyan, Haik M.	2651
53	David Navara	2650
54	Kirill Alekseenko	2650
55	David Howell	2650
56	Pavel Eljanov	2649
57	Sam Shankland	2648
58	Anton Guijarro, David	2647
59	Nguyen, Thai Dai Van	2646
60	Ivan Saric	2641
61	Nikita Vitiugov	2641
62	Nodirbek Yakubboev	2640
63	Peter Leko	2640
64	Volodar Murzin	2636
65	Michael Adams	2634
66	Christiansen, Johan-Sebastian	2633
67	Radoslaw Wojtaszek	2633
68	Boris Gelfand	2633
69	Alexander Morozevich	2633
70	Sargsyan, Shant	2631
71	Matthias Bluebaum	2630
72	Frederik Svane	2627
73	Bjerre, Jonas Buhl	2626
74	Grigoriy Oparin	2625
75	Kirill Shevchenko	2625
76	Ruslan Ponomariov	2622
77	Etienne Bacrot	2619
78	Max Warmerdam	2619
79	Abhimanyu Puranik	2618
80	Alexandr Predke	2618
81	Benjamin Gledura	2616
82	Rauf Mamedov	2615
83	Ernesto Inarkiev	2611
84	Andrei Volokitin	2609
85	Alan Pichot	2606
86	Sanan Sjugirov	2605
87	Ni, Hua	2604
88	Narayanan S L	2604
89	Bassem Amin	2603
90	Alexei Shirov	2592
91	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	2589
92	Nils Grandelius	2588
93	Vladimir Malakhov	2585
94	Dmitrij Kollars	2584
95	Vasyl Ivanchuk	2582
96	Wang, Yue	2580
97	Gabriel Sargissian	2578
98	Gawain Jones	2574
99	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	2568
100	Ma, Qun	2566