The 2024 World Chess Championship is looming. Can world champion Ding Liren defend his title? And what about superstar Magnus Carlsen? sport.de has the most important information about the date, venue, participants, format, etc.
One thing is already certain before the 2024 World Chess Championship: the winner this year will not be Magnus Carlsen.
The 33-year-old world-class chess player from Norway canceled his participation in the Candidates Tournament in Toronto in January, which was set to determine the challenger to world champion Ding Liren in April.
It is already the second World Chess Championship without Carlsen. In July 2022, the then reigning champion announced that he would not defend his title in 2023.
sport.de hat the most important information for the Chess World Championship 2024:
When and where will the 2024 World Chess Championship take place?
- The 2024 World Chess Championship has not yet been scheduled. The venue is also not yet known.
- The Candidates Tournament, which will determine the challenger to defending champion Ding Liren, only took place in April this year. For this reason, the 2024 World Chess Championship will take place later than in 2023.
- In 2023, the World Chess Championship took place in Astana, Kazakhstan and lasted 25 days.
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The game mode at the 2024 World Chess Championship
- The player who reaches 7.5 points first becomes world champion. If the winner is decided earlier, the final of the 2024 World Chess Championship will end prematurely.
- If there is no winner after 14 games, there will be a tie-break with reduced thinking time.
What is the time control at the 2024 World Chess Championship?
- The two finalists have 120 minutes of thinking time for the first 40 moves.
- You have 60 minutes to think about the next 20 moves.
- You have 15 minutes to think about the rest of the game.
- Starting from move number 61, players are credited with 30 seconds per move.
Who are the finalists of the 2024 World Chess Championship?
- Ding Liren is in the final of the 2024 World Chess Championship. The 31-year-old Chinese is automatically qualified as defending champion.
- In 2023, Ding Liren took part in the final of the World Chess Championship for the first time. He defeated the Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi (nicknamed “Nepo”) in a tie-break.
- Ding Liren is China’s first world chess champion.
- His opponent in the final is Dommaraju Gukesh. The 17-year-old Indian, who qualified for the Candidates Tournament in Toronto as winner of the 2023 FIDE Circuit, beat a total of seven opponents in Canada.
- Gukesh could thus become the youngest world chess champion of all time.
The road to the 2024 World Chess Championship
Six of the eight starting places for the Candidates Tournament, which took place in Toronto in April, were awarded through sporting means: through the 2023 World Chess Cup (three starting places), the FIDE Grand Swiss (two places) and the new FIDE Circuit (one place).
Jan “Nepo” Nepomnyashchi was automatically qualified as the loser of the 2023 World Chess Championship.
As the best chess player who had not yet qualified, Frenchman Alireza Firouzja (sixth in the world rankings) was allowed to compete in the Candidates Tournament.
Nicat Abasov from Azerbaijan replaced Magnus Carlsen, who announced in January that he would not participate in the Candidates Tournament.
These were the participants of the 2024 Candidates Tournament:
- Jan Nepomnyashchi (Russia/loser of the World Chess Championship 2023)
- Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (India/Second place at the Chess World Cup 2023)
- Fabiano Caruana (USA/third place at the 2023 World Chess Cup)
- Nicat Abasov (Azerbaijan/Fourth place at the 2023 Chess World Cup and replacement for Magnus Carlsen)
- Santosh Gujrathi Vidit (India/Winner of the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2023)
- Hikaru Nakamura (USA/Second place of the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2023)
- Dommaraju Gukesh (Indian/Winner des FIDE Circuit 2023)
- Alireza Firouzja (France/qualified as sixth in the world rankings).
History of the Chess World Championship 2024
- The first World Chess Championship took place in 1886.
- The record world champions are the German Emanuel Lasker (between 1894 and 1921), Anatoly Karpov (Soviet Union/Russia, between 1975 and 1985) and Garry Kasparov (Soviet Union/Russia, between 1985 and 1993) with six world championship titles each.
- Magnus Carlsen (Norway) has five world championship titles (2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021).
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