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