World Chess Championship 2020
The World Chess Championship 2020 will be a chess match between the reigning World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen, and a challenger to determine the World Chess Champion. It will be held in the latter half of 2020, under the auspices of FIDE, the world chess federation, with the organisation rights belonging to World Chess, its commercial partner.[1]
Defending champion | Challenger |
TBD | |
Born 30 November 1990 29 years old |
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Winner of the World Chess Championship 2018 | Winner of the Candidates Tournament 2020 |
Rating: TBD | Rating: TBD |
← 2018 | 2022 → |
Candidates Tournament
The challenger will be the winner of a Candidates Tournament, which is an eight-player double-round robin tournament played in Yekaterinburg, Russia.[2] Originally scheduled for 15 March to 5 April 2020, the second half of the tournament was postponed by FIDE on 26 March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, after Russia announced that all international flights would be suspended the following day.[3]
The qualifiers for the Candidates Tournament are:[4][5]
Qualification method | Player |
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2018 World Championship runner-up | |
The top two finishers at the Chess World Cup 2019 | |
The top finisher in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2019 (who does not qualify by one of the above methods, and is not Carlsen). | |
The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Prix 2019 (who do not qualify by one of the above methods). | |
Highest average rating (who does not qualify by one of the above methods, and is not Carlsen). | |
Wild card chosen by organizer, subject to eligibility criteria |
If one or more players decline the invitation to play in the Candidates Tournament, the players with the next highest average ratings will qualify. On March 6, this rule was used to select Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, after Teimour Radjabov withdrew.
Results
Rank | Player | Score | H2H | Wins | SB | MVL | IN | FC | Giri | Wang | AG | Ding | KA | |||||||||
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1–2 | 4.5 / 7 | 1 | 2 | 15.25 | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | |||||||||||
1–2 | 4.5 / 7 | 0 | 3 | 14.25 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | |||||||||||
3–6 | 3.5 / 7 | 1.5 | 1 | 12.25 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
3–6 | 3.5 / 7 | 1.5 | 1 | 11.25 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | |||||||||||
3–6 | 3.5 / 7 | 1.5 | 1 | 11.25 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | |||||||||||
3–6 | 3.5 / 7 | 1.5 | 0 | 12.25 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | |||||||||||
7–8 | 2.5 / 7 | 0.5 | 1 | 8.25 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | |||||||||||
7–8 | 2.5 / 7 | 0.5 | 0 | 9.25 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head score among tied players; 3) total number of wins; 4) Sonneborn–Berger score (SB); 5) tie-break games.[5]
Note: Numbers in the crosstable in a white background indicate the result playing the respective opponent with the white pieces (black pieces if on a black background).
Championship match
Organization
The match will be a best-of-14 match, with tie breaks. This was increased from best-of-12 (in place for every world championship match since 2006), after all 12 regular games were drawn in the previous match in 2018.[9]
Location
Bids were to be presented no later than on 1 March 2019 to World Chess, with an inspection at the proposed venues to be made between 1 July and 15 August 2019.[10]
In 2018, Monaco and Vienna expressed intention to bid for the event,[11] as has Saint Petersburg.
Stavanger, Norway announced a bid in March 2019, but withdrew its bid in June 2019, after Carlsen expressed reluctance to play the match in Norway.[12][13]
In November 2019, at the Hamburg Grand Prix Opening Ceremony, FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich announced that FIDE had received bids from UAE and Argentina to host the match.[14]
References
- "Bidding opens to Host the 2020 World Chess Candidates Tournament". FIDE. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- Candidates Tournament to Take Place in Yekaterinburg from March 15 till April 5, 11 November 2019, Chess Federation of Russia
- Barden, Leonard (26 Mar 2020). "Chess: Candidates stopped at midway point after Russia suspends air traffic". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 Mar 2020.
- Bidding Procedure for the FIDE Candidates' Tournament 2020, FIDE, 8 March 2020
- Regulations for the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2020, FIDE
- "Teimour Radjabov to be replaced by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the Candidates Tournament". FIDE. 6 March 2020.
- "MVL to play the Candidates instead of Radjabov". chess24.com. 6 March 2020.
- “Ruchess - Statement of the CFR President:"Andrey Filatov: Kirill Alekseenko to Get Wild Card from Organizer of FIDE Candidates Tournament (23 December, 2019)”
- FIDE updates and the World Championship cycle, Chessbase, April 26 2019
- "Championship Match 2020 - The Bidding Procedure" (PDF). WorldChess. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- "Vienna vies for 2020 World Championship". chessbase.com. 13 September 2018.
- Norway not to bid for the 2020 World Chess Championship, Norway Chess press release, June, 27 2019
- "Stavanger, Norway Withdraws 2020 World Champs Bid After Carlsen Pressure". chess.com. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
- Hamburg GP starts as Candidates race heats up, chess24.com, 5 November 2019