The history of the FIDE World Cup chronicles various incarnations throughout the years. Since the turn of the millennium in 2000, this grand chess spectacle has stood as a paramount occasion orchestrated by none other than FIDE, the eminent International Chess Federation.
FIDE Chess WorldCup Winners: Get here complete list of FIDE Chess WorldCup Winners from 200 to 2023 along with runner up names.
The fierce battlefield of the FIDE World Cup Chess 2023 rages on, as India’s chess grandmaster, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, engages in an epic clash with the Norwegian powerhouse, Magnus Carlsen.
The history of the FIDE World Cup chronicles various incarnations throughout the years. Since the turn of the millennium in 2000, this grand chess spectacle has stood as a paramount occasion orchestrated by none other than FIDE, the eminent International Chess Federation.
FIDE WorldCup Winners List (2000 – 2023)
The year 2000 and 2002 witnessed FIDE, the eminent guardian of chess’s global realm, unfurling their inaugural “First Chess World Cup” and the ensuing “Second Chess World Cup” respectively. These monumental contests, while not intrinsically linked to the World Chess Championship, etched themselves in history as pivotal events. Amidst these tumultuous battles, the victory was claimed by the eminent Viswanathan Anand, hailing from the shores of India.
Year | Dates | Host | Players | Qual. | Winner | Runner-up | Third place | Fourth place |
2000 | 1–13 Sep | Shenyang, China | 24 | – | Viswanathan Anand | Evgeny Bareev | Boris Gelfand and Gilberto Milos | |
2002 | 9–22 Oct | Hyderabad, India | 24 | – | Viswanathan Anand | Rustam Kasimdzhanov | Alexander Beliavsky and Alexey Dreev | |
2005 | 27 Nov – 17 Dec | Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia | 128 | 10 | Levon Aronian | Ruslan Ponomariov | Étienne Bacrot | Alexander Grischuk |
2007 | 24 Nov – 16 Dec | Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia | 128 | 1 | Gata Kamsky | Alexei Shirov | Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin | |
2009 | 20 Nov – 14 Dec | Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia | 128 | 1 | Boris Gelfand | Ruslan Ponomariov | Sergey Karjakin and Vladimir Malakhov | |
2011 | 26 Aug – 21 Sep | Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia | 128 | 3 | Peter Svidler | Alexander Grischuk | Vassily Ivanchuk | Ruslan Ponomariov |
2013 | 10 Aug – 4 Sep | Tromsø, Norway | 128 | 2 | Vladimir Kramnik | Dmitry Andreikin | Evgeny Tomashevsky and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | |
2015 | 10 Sep – 5 Oct | Baku, Azerbaijan | 128 | 2 | Sergey Karjakin | Peter Svidler | Anish Giri and Pavel Eljanov | |
2017 | 2–27 Sep | Tbilisi, Georgia | 128 | 2 | Levon Aronian | Ding Liren | Wesley So and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | |
2019 | 9 Sep – 4 Oct | Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia[12] | 128 | 2 | Teimour Radjabov | Ding Liren | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | Yu Yangyi |
2021 | 12 Jul – 6 Aug | Sochi, Russia | 206 | 2 | Jan-Krzysztof Duda | Sergey Karjakin | Magnus Carlsen | Vladimir Fedoseev |
2023 | 29 Jul – 25 Aug | Baku, Azerbaijan | 206 | 3 | Magnus Carlsen vs Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa | Nijat Abasov vs Fabiano Caruana | ||
As the calendar flipped to 2005, it transformed into a high-stakes single-elimination contest boasting a lineup of 128 valiant contenders, a pivotal segment in the road leading to the illustrious World Chess Championship. With the dawn of the 2021 iteration, the ranks swelled to accommodate an impressive 206 contenders, a testament to the tournament’s escalating grandeur.
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