FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Sport | Chess |
| Location | Samarkand, Uzbekistan[1] |
| Dates | 3 September 2025–15 September 2025 |
| 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 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.[2] 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.[3][4]
Format
The tournament has an 11-round Swiss format featuring 172 players (116 in open and 56 in women category) [5]
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.[1]
Players
116 players will participate in the FIDE Grand Swiss.[6] The original regulations approved by FIDE Council stated 114 would qualify: 100 by rating, the Women's World Champion, 4 Continential spots, 5 presidential and 5 Organizer's nominees.[7] However, FIDE has changed the regulations on their website and added 2 presidential nominees. FIDE did not explain the change.[8] In the player list, 101 rating qualifiers and 6 presidential nominees appear.
Rating Qualifiers
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Rating Qualifiers who declined to participate
| Name | August 2025 Rating |
|---|---|
 Fabiano Caruana
|
2784 |
 Wei Yi
|
2753 |
| Wesley So
|
2745 |
| Ding Liren
|
2734 |
 Jan-Krzysztof Duda
|
2725 |
 Aravindh Chithambaram
|
2723 |
| Bu Xiangzhi
|
2684 |
 Thai Dai Van Nguyen
|
2674 |
 Michael Adams
|
2663 |
| Gawain Jones
|
2651 |
 Johan-Sebastian Christiansen
|
2651 |
 Benjamin Gledura
|
2648 |
 José Martínez Alcántara
|
2636 |
 Loek van Wely
|
2632 |
 Eltaj Safarli
|
2630 |
| Aryan Tari
|
2627 |
| Wang Yue
|
2627 |
| Luke McShane
|
2615 |
| Vasif Durarbayli
|
2612 |
 Samvel Ter-Sahakyan
|
2611 |
| Erwin l'Ami
|
2611 |
| Ma Qun
|
2610 |
| Christopher Yoo
|
2607 |
| Tamás Bánusz
|
2605 |
 Arkadij Naiditsch
|
2604 |
| Ferenc Berkes
|
2604 |
 Jorge Cori
|
2599 |
Top 100 Players who did not meet the Activity Requirement:
| Name | Jun 2025 Rating | Games Played Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Magnus Carlsen | 2837 | 13 |
| Hikaru Nakamura | 2804 | 8 |
| Viswanathan Anand | 2743 | 6 |
| Leinier Domínguez | 2738 | 23 |
| Lê Quang Liêm | 2729 | 26 |
| Veselin Topalov | 2717 | 2 |
| Wang Hao | 2701 | 15 |
| Peter Svidler | 2698 | 4 |
| Dmitry Andreikin | 2695 | 20 |
| Teimour Radjabov | 2692 | 11 |
| Igor Kovalenko | 2676 | 2 |
| Rustam Kasimdzhanov | 2675 | 12 |
| David Howell | 2668 | 21 |
| Peter Leko | 2666 | 9 |
| Boris Gelfand | 2652 | 10 |
| Alexander Morozevich | 2650 | 12 |
| Francisco Vallejo Pons | 2638 | 22 |
| Vladimir Malakhov | 2636 | 8 |
| Hrant Melkumyan | 2636 | 9 |
| Hou Yifan | 2633 | 3 |
| Yuriy Kryvoruchko | 2633 | 16 |
| Ioannis Papaioannou | 2626 | 15 |
| Luka Lenič | 2626 | 2 |
| Li Chao | 2624 | 26 |
| Peter Heine Nielsen | 2617 | 4 |
| Tamir Nabaty | 2613 | 9 |
| Alexander Riazantsev | 2612 | 8 |
| Ivan Popov | 2610 | 7 |
| Eric Hansen | 2609 | 10 |
| Imre Balog | 2609 | 26 |
| Gata Kamsky | 2607 | 19 |
| Vladimir Onischuk | 2602 | 28 |
| Oleksandr Bortnyk | 2601 | 14 |
| Victor Bologan | 2601 | 23 |
Continential spots
- Pranav V (IND), 2597
Cristobal Henriquez Villagra (CHI), 2592
Jules Moussard (FRA), 2584
Olisa Tennyson (NGR), 2287
Presidental Nominees
Boris Gelfand (ISR), 2652
Ivan Zemlyanskii (FIDE), 2586- Mateusz Bartel (POL), 2576
- Andy Woodward (USA), 2557
Ihor Samunenkov (UKR), 2548- Aleksandra Goryachkina (FIDE), 2528
Organizer Nominees
Mukhiddin Madaminov (UZB), 2560- Jakhongir Vakhidov (UZB), 2521
- Mukhammadzokhid Suyarov (UZB), IM, 2488
- Ortik Nigmatov (UZB), 2488
- Abdimalik Abdisalimov (UZB), 2488
References
- ^ a b "FIDE Grand Swiss 2025 to be held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan". Retrieved 2025-08-10.
- ^ "Regulations for the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025" (PDF). www.fide.com. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
- ^ "FIDE Grand Swiss & Women's Grand Swiss 2025 - Call for bids". www.fide.com. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 2025-08-10.
- ^ "FIDE finalizes qualification pathways for 2026 Women's Candidates". MSN. 2 December 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ "FIDE Grand Swiss Chess 2025: Erigaisi and Gukesh seeded top two, a gateway to candidates". The Hindu. 8 July 2025.
- ^ "Open Event Qualified Players". www.grandswiss2025.fide.com. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
- ^ "Regulations for the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 (internet.archive)" (PDF). handbook.fide.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2025-03-27. Retrieved 2025-07-21.
- ^ "Regulations for the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025" (PDF). FIDE.
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