The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 will be a
chess
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tournament organized by
FIDE
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( , ), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the Spor ...
, chess's international governing body, in September 2025. It forms part of the qualification cycle for the
World Chess Championship 2026. It will be an 11-round
Swiss-system tournament
A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other ...
. The winner and runner-up of the tournament will earn the right to play in the
Candidates Tournament 2026.
The Women’s section will be held in parallel at the same time and venue, and its top two finishers will qualify for the
Women's Candidates Tournament.
Format
The tournament has an 11-round
Swiss format.
The games use a classical time control of 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30 second increment from move 1.
Tie-breaks
Tie-breaks between players who finish on the same score will be determined, in order, by the following tie-breaks:
# Average Rating of Opponents Cut 1
#
Buchholz Cut 1
#
Buchholz
# Direct encounter between the tied players
# Drawing of lots.
Venue and schedule
The tournament is scheduled to take place September 3-15, 2025 in
Samarkand
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, Uzbekistan.
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Qualifiers
109 players will qualify for the FIDE Grand Swiss.
Top 100 Players who did not meet the Activity Requirement:
References
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