| 2023 FIDE Circuit | |
| Duration: | 22 December 2022 – 30 December 2023 |
| Nextseason Year: | 2024 |
| Nextseason Link: | 2024 FIDE Circuit |
The 2023 FIDE Circuit was a system comprising the top chess tournaments in 2023, which serves as a qualification path for the Candidates Tournament 2024. Players receive points based on their performance and the strength of the tournament. A player's final Circuit score is the sum of their five best results of the year. The winner of the Circuit qualifies for the Candidates Tournament 2024 in Toronto, Canada, the winner of which qualifies for the World Chess Championship 2024.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Since the winner of the Circuit (Fabiano Caruana) had already qualified to the 2024 Candidates Tournament via the Chess World Cup 2023, the second-place finisher in the Circuit, Gukesh D, qualified to the 2024 Candidates.
A FIDE-rated individual standard tournament is eligible for the Circuit if it meets the following criteria:[6]
The Circuit also includes the following tournaments:
Circuit points obtained by a player from a tournament are calculated as follows:
P=B x k x w
where:
P
B
k
k=(TAR-2500)/100
w
Basic points for a tournament are awarded if the players placed in (or tied for) the top 8, provided that the placing is within the top half of the tournament, or at least the third round for knockout tournaments.
For tied positions, basic points are calculated as 50% of points for final ranking as determined by tournament's tie-break rules, plus 50% of the sum of basic points assigned for the tied places divided by the number of tied players. If no tie-break rule is applied, basic points are 100% shared equally among all tied players.
For FIDE World Cup 2023, points are given as above with the following modifications:
A player's point total for the ranking is the sum of their best 5 tournaments,[7] of which at least 4 events must be played with standard time controls. Players without 5 such events (for example, Leinier Domínguez and Vidit Gujrathi) are not ranked. Tournaments that could be included in player's results are as follows:
Eligible tournaments as of 30 December 2023.
| Tournament | Location | Date | Type | TAR | Winner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Chess Championship |  New Delhi | 22 December 2022 3 January 2023 | National | Karthik Venkataraman | ||
| Rilton Cup |  Stockholm | 27 December 2022 5 January 2023 | Pranesh M | |||
| Armenian Chess Championship |  Yerevan | 13–21 January | National | 2574 | Samvel Ter-Sahakyan | |
| Azerbaijani Chess Championship |  Baku | 13–26 January | National | Vasif Durarbayli | ||
| Tata Steel Masters | Wijk aan Zee | 13–29 January | 2770 | Anish Giri | ||
| Tata Steel Challengers | Wijk aan Zee | 13–29 January | Alexander Donchenko | |||
| Floripa Open |  Florianópolis | 23–29 January |  Alan Pichot | |||
| WR Chess Masters |  Düsseldorf | 15–26 February | Levon Aronian | |||
| Open International de Cappelle la Grande |  Cappelle-la-Grande | 18–24 February | S. P. Sethuraman[8] | |||
| European Individual Chess Championship |  Vrnjačka Banja | 3–13 March | FIDE | Alexey Sarana | ||
| Delhi Open | New Delhi | 23–30 March | Aravindh Chithambaram | |||
| Reykjavik Open |  Reykjavík | 29 March 4 April | Nils Grandelius | |||
| Fagernes Chess International |  Fagernes | 2–9 April |  Vahap Şanal | |||
| International Mexican Open Chess Championship |  Mexico City | 4–9 April |  Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara | |||
| Open Internacional de Ajedrez Semana Santa |  La Nucia | 5–10 April |  Yuri Solodovnichenko | |||
| The Spring Classic |  St. Louis | 5–13 April | Benjamin Bok | |||
| Open Internacional Chess Menorca | Menorca | 11–16 April | Gukesh D | |||
| Polish Chess Championship |  Warsaw | 12–20 April | National | Bartosz Soćko | ||
| Sunway Formentera International Chess Festival | Formentera | 18–28 April | Vladimir Fedoseev | |||
| Kazakhstan Chess Cup |  Astana | 23–30 April | Aldiyar Ansat | |||
| Satty Zhuldyz Masters | Astana | 24–25 April | Rapid & Blitz | Levon Aronian | ||
| Stepan Avagyan Memorial | Jermuk | 2–12 May | Samuel Sevian | |||
| Capablanca Memorial |  Havana | 3–11 May | Jonas Buhl Bjerre | |||
| TePe Sigeman & Co chess tournament | Malmö | 4–10 May | Peter Svidler | |||
| Baku Open | Baku | 4–12 May | Leon Luke Mendonca | |||
| GCT Superbet Chess Classic Romania |  Bucharest | 4–16 May | Fabiano Caruana | |||
| American Continental Chess Championship |  Juan Dolio | 15–23 May | FIDE | Georg Meier | ||
| Sharjah Masters | Sharjah | 16–26 May | Arjun Erigaisi | |||
| GCT Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland | Warsaw | 19–26 May | Rapid & Blitz | Magnus Carlsen | ||
| Cherry Blossom Classic | Dulles, Virginia | 24–29 May | Vasif Durarbayli Mikhail Antipov | |||
| Norway Chess Open | Stavanger | 27 May 3 June | Platon Galperin | |||
| Norway Chess Blitz | Stavanger | 27 May 3 June | Blitz |  Nodirbek Abdusattorov | ||
| Dubai Open | Dubai | 27 May 4 June | Aravindh Chithambaram | |||
| Norway Chess – Main Tournament | Stavanger | 27 May 9 June | Hikaru Nakamura[9] | |||
| Münchner Pfingst-Open | Munich | 31 May 6 June | Alexander Motylev | |||
| Asian Chess Championship | Almaty | 4–11 June | FIDE | 2618 | Shamsiddin Vokhidov | |
| Canadian Transnational Chess Championship |  Montreal | 6–11 June | Toms Kantans | |||
| Teplice Open |  Teplice | 10–18 June | Frederik Svane | |||
| The Las Vegas National Open | Las Vegas | 14–18 June | Illia Nyzhnyk Vasif Durarbayli Yasser Quesada Mikhail Antipov | |||
| Vladimir Dvorkovich Memorial – Aktobe Open Classic | Aktobe | 20–27 June | Bardiya Daneshvar | |||
| Prague International Chess Festival – Masters | Prague | 20–30 June | Ray Robson | |||
| Prague International Chess Festival – Challengers | Prague | 20–30 June | Mateusz Bartel | |||
| World Open | Philadelphia | 23 June 4 July | Fidel Corrales Jimenez | |||
| Sparkassen Chess Trophy | Dortmund | 24 June 2 July | Alexander Donchenko | |||
| Orillas de Mar | Adeje | 25 June 2 July | 2580 | Abhijeet Gupta | ||
| Norwegian Chess Championship | Oslo | 30 June 8 July | National | Simen Agdestein | ||
| Dutch Chess Championship | Utrecht | 2–9 July | National | Anish Giri | ||
| GCT SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia | Zagreb | 3–10 July | Rapid & Blitz | Magnus Carlsen | ||
| International Open "Villa de Benasque" | Benasque | 5–14 July |  Bu Xiangzhi | |||
| International Chess Festival Astana Zhuldyzdary | Astana | 11–18 July | Aditya Mittal | |||
| Geza Hetenyi Memorial |  Budapest | 11–19 July | R Praggnanandhaa | |||
| Biel Master Tournament | Biel/Bienne | 17–27 July | Bu Xiangzhi | |||
| Biel Grandmaster Triathlon (classical part) | Biel/Bienne | 18–26 July | Lê Quang Liêm | |||
| Romania Grand Prix Brașov | Brașov | 18–26 July |  Luca Moroni | |||
| Paleochora International Chess Tournament | Kantanos-Selino | 19–26 July | Bai Jinshi | |||
| Uralsk Open | Oral | 21–28 July | Hans Niemann | |||
| FIDE World Cup | Baku | 30 July 24 August | FIDE | Magnus Carlsen | ||
| International Chess Cup of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI |  Rabat | 14–19 August |  Paulius Pultinevičius | |||
| Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival | Abu Dhabi | 16–24 August | Vladimir Fedoseev | |||
| French Chess Championship | Alpe d'Huez | 18–27 August | National | Yannick Gozzoli | ||
| Open Internacional de Sants-Ciutat de Barcelona | Barcelona | 18–27 August | Elham Amar | |||
| Maia Chess Open | Maia | 25 August 2 September |  Victor Mikhalevski | |||
| Tata Steel Chess India Rapid | Kolkata | 5–7 September | Rapid | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | ||
| Tata Steel Chess India Blitz | Kolkata | 8–9 September | Blitz | Alexander Grischuk | ||
| Tsaghkadzor Open | Tsaghkadzor | 19–28 September | Abhimanyu Puranik | |||
| World Junior Championship | Mexico City | 21 September – 1 October | FIDE | Marc'Andria Maurizzi | ||
| Levitov Chess Week | Amsterdam | 22–26 September | Rapid | Ian Nepomniachtchi | ||
| Asian Games Individual | Hangzhou | 23–27 September | Rapid | Wei Yi | ||
| Yerevan Open | Yerevan | 29 September – 7 October | Karen H. Grigoryan | |||
| Russian Championship |  St Petersburg | 1–12 October | National | 2650 | Vladislav Artemiev | |
| US Chess Championship | St. Louis | 5–15 October | National | Fabiano Caruana | ||
| Fagernes International Autumn | Fagernes | 8–15 October | Mads Andersen | |||
| Spanish Championship | Marbella | 10–21 October | National | Eduardo Iturrizaga | ||
| Qatar Masters |  Doha | 11–20 October | Nodirbek Yakubboev | |||
| FIDE Grand Swiss | Douglas, Isle of Man | 23 October 5 November | FIDE | Vidit Gujrathi | ||
| Bavarian Open | Tegernsee | 28 October 5 November | Jiří Štoček | |||
| Torneio Internacional da Figueira da Foz | Figueira da Foz | 5–12 November | Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera | |||
| GCT St. Louis Rapid and Blitz | St. Louis | 12–19 November | Rapid & Blitz | 2751 | Fabiano Caruana | |
| Sinquefield Cup | St. Louis | 21–30 November | Fabiano Caruana | |||
| US Masters | Charlotte | 22–26 November | Mikhail Antipov | |||
| Tournament of Peace | Zagreb | 22–30 November | Hans Niemann | |||
| El Llobregat Open | Sant Boi de Llobregat | 30 November 8 December | 2658 | S. L. Narayanan | ||
| London Chess Classic | London | 1–10 December | Michael Adams | |||
| Gashimov Memorial | Gabala | 7–11 December | Rapid & Blitz | Vidit Gujrathi | ||
| Champions Chess Tour Finals | Toronto | 9–16 December | Rapid | Magnus Carlsen | ||
| Sunway Chess Festival | Sitges | 12–22 December | 2646 | Abhimanyu Puranik | ||
| European Rapid Championship | Zagreb | 14–15 December | Rapid FIDE | Alexey Sarana | ||
| Chennai Grand Masters | Chennai | 15–21 December | Gukesh D | |||
| European Blitz Championship | Zagreb | 16 December | Blitz FIDE | David Navara | ||
| World Rapid Championship | Samarkand | 26–28 December | Rapid FIDE | Magnus Carlsen | ||
| World Blitz Championship | Samarkand | 29–30 December | Blitz FIDE | Magnus Carlsen |
| No. | Player | Points | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fabiano Caruana | 118.61 | GCT Romania 1st – 26.84 | Stavanger (Main) 2nd – 21.75 | World Cup 3rd – 21.41 | US Championship 1st – 22.68 | St Louis 1st – 25.93 | |
| 2 | Gukesh D | 87.36 | Düsseldorf T 2nd-3rd – 19.26 | Sharjah 3rd – 13.13 | Stavanger (Main) 3rd – 19.03 | World Cup QF – 15.86 | Chennai 1st – 20.08 | |
| 3 | Anish Giri | 84.31 | Wijk aan Zee (Masters) 1st – 27.00 | GCT Romania T 2nd-5th – 17.44 | Stavanger (Main) 4th – 16.31 | Dutch Championship 1st – 13.09 | Grand Swiss 7th – 10.47 | |
| 4 | Wesley So | 83.40 | Wijk aan Zee (Masters) 4th – 16.20 | Düsseldorf 4th – 14.60 | GCT Romania T 2nd-5th – 17.44 | US Championship 2nd – 17.01 | St Louis 3rd – 18.15 | |
| 5 | Arjun Erigaisi | 81.24 | Sharjah 1st – 21.89 | World Cup QF – 15.86 | Doha T 3rd-8th – 11.13 | Grand Swiss 4th – 14.39 | Chennai 2nd – 17.97 | |
| - | Magnus Carlsen | 71.04 | Wijk aan Zee (Masters) T 2nd-3rd – 20.25 | Stavanger (Main) 6th – 0.00 | World Cup 1st – 29.73 | Doha 16th – 0.00 | World Rapid 1st – 21.06 | |
| - | Hikaru Nakamura | 59.25 | Stavanger (Main) 1st – 27.19 | World Cup R4 – 0.00 | Doha T 3rd-8th – 11.13 | Grand Swiss 2nd – 20.93 | ||
| 6 | Amin Tabatabaei | 56.14 | Wijk aan Zee (Challengers) 4th – 8.00 | Jermuk 3rd – 10.55 | Sharjah 7th – 8.76 | Budapest 2nd – 14.86 | London 2nd – 13.97 | |
| 7 | R Praggnanandhaa | 54.79 | Düsseldorf T 5th-10th – 2.03 | Budapest 1st – 19.18 | World Cup 2nd – 24.18 | Tata Steel India (Rapid) 3rd – 8.96 | Grand Swiss 13th – 0.44 | |
| 8 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 54.63 | Wijk aan Zee (Masters) T 2nd-3rd – 20.25 | Düsseldorf T 5th-10th – 2.03 | Stavanger (Blitz) 1st – 10.88 | Doha 2nd – 21.03 | Grand Swiss 12th – 0.44 | |
| - | Leinier Domínguez | 52.47 | World Cup QF – 15.86 | US Championship 3rd – 15.87 | St Louis 2nd – 20.74 | Sitges 209th – 0.00 | ||
| - | Vidit Gujrathi | 52.21 | Sharjah 47th – 0.00 | World Cup QF – 15.86 | Grand Swiss 1st – 26.16 | Gabala 1st – 10.19 | ||
| - | Samuel Sevian | 49.17 | St. Louis (Spring) 2nd – 10.24 | Jermuk 1st – 15.63 | Sharjah 2nd – 14.23 | US Championship 5th – 9.07 | Grand Swiss 22nd – 0.00 | |
| 9 | Hans Niemann | 46.85 | Menorca 6th – 6.82 | Sharjah 6th – 9.85 | Uralsk 1st – 9.66 | US Championship 6th – 7.94 | Zagreb 1st – 12.58 | |
| 10 | Javokhir Sindarov | 46.25 | Wijk aan Zee (Challengers) 3rd – 9.33 | Dubai 2nd – 14.29 | Hangzhou 3rd – 8.45 | Doha T 3rd-8th – 11.13 | Grand Swiss 8th – 3.05 | |
| - | Vladimir Fedoseev | 44.30 | World Cup R3 – 0.00 | Abu Dhabi 1st – 16.39 | Grand Swiss 26th – 0.00 | Sant Boi de Llobregat 3rd – 11.06 | World Rapid 2nd – 16.85 | |
| - | Levon Aronian | 41.90 | Wijk aan Zee (Masters) T 7th-8th – 4.05 | Düsseldorf 1st – 22.30 | Satty Zhuldyz 1st – 10.36 | US Championship 8th – 0.00 | St Louis 6th – 5.19 | |
| 11 | Vincent Keymer | 40.88 | Düsseldorf T 5th-10th – 2.03 | Satty Zhuldyz 6th – 4.40 | Prague (Masters) T 4th-7th – 5.44 | Biel 2nd – 15.93 | Grand Swiss 5th – 13.08 | |
| - | Ian Nepomniachtchi | 38.59 | Düsseldorf T 2nd-3rd – 19.26 | GCT Romania 9th – 0.00 | World Cup R5 – 0.00 |  Amsterdam1st – 14.14 | St Louis 4th – 5.19 | |
| 12 | Haik M. Martirosyan | 38.44 | Jermuk 4th – 9.77 | Sharjah 5th – 10.94 | Prague (Masters) T 4th-7th – 5.44 | Benasque 6th – 4.19 | European Rapid 2nd – 8.10 |