FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament explained

The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament is a Swiss-system chess tournament, forming part of the qualification for the World Chess Championship.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Editions and winners

The players who qualify for the Candidates Tournament are marked with green background. The players who otherwise qualified for the Candidates Tournament before the start of the Grand Swiss Tournament are marked with blue background. In 2019, Alekseenko emerging third in the Grand Swiss made him eligible for the wild card nomination, which is how he qualified to the Candidates Tournament 2020–2021.

Edition	Host city	Players	Winner	Runner-up	Third
	Santon	154			Kirill Alekseenko
		108			Grigoriy Oparin
		114			Andrey Esipenko

See also

• FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament
• World Chess Championship
• FIDE Grand Prix
• Chess World Cup

Notes and References

1. Web site: FIDE reforms the qualifications paths to the Candidates Tournament. www.fide.com.
2. Web site: Grand Swiss - Firouzja and Caruana in the Candidates. November 7, 2021. Chess News.
3. Web site: FIDE Grand Swiss: Mixed luck for Indian players. October 29, 2021.