{"id":22734,"date":"2024-04-23T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T06:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22734"},"modified":"2025-04-06T21:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T16:11:42","slug":"candidates-chess-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/candidates-chess-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates Chess Tournament 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Candidates Chess Tournament<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>final event in the World Championship cycle before<\/strong> the <strong>World Championship match<\/strong> itself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The International Chess Federation (FIDE)<\/strong> has <strong>organized<\/strong> the World Championship cycle since 1948 and the <strong>Candidates Tournament since 1950.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Since 2013<\/strong>, the Candidates Tournament has <strong>occurred every two years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The number of players in the tournament varied over the years, between eight and fifteen players. Currently, it is an<strong> eight-player<\/strong>, <strong>double round<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>robinevent <\/strong>(that is <strong>all-play-all with both colours<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why is the Candidates Tournament Important?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>second most important tournament<\/strong> in the World Championship cycle, as the <strong>winner<\/strong> of the Candidates Tournament<strong> plays the reigning world championin<\/strong> the <strong>championship match.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Multiple tournaments are part of the World Championship cycle, but the real point of all of them is to qualify for the Candidates Tournament.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>How to qualify for the Candidates Tournament? <\/strong>The methods used to qualify each of the players for the Candidates Tournament most recently were:\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>runner-up<\/strong> in the <strong>previous World Championship match<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>top three finishers of<\/strong> the <strong>FIDE World Cup<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>top two finishers of<\/strong> the <strong>FIDE Grand Swiss tournament<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>winner of the FIDE Circuit<\/strong>, which tracks tournament results from January to December of the year before the Candidates Tournament,<\/li>\n<li>And the <strong>player with the highest FIDE ratingon January<\/strong> of the year of the Candidates Tournament.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the International Chess Federation (FIDE)?<\/h3>\n<p>The International Chess Federation is the translated name of Federation International des Echecs (where the abbreviation FIDE comes from). FIDE was founded in Paris on July 20, 1924, which was the last day of the first unofficial Chess Olympiad. The founding day of July 20 is also the annual celebration of International Chess Day. FIDE is now based in Switzerland and is the governing body of international chess competitions. They work with almost 200 national federations (as of 2020), and FIDE&#8217;s motto is &#8220;Gens una sumus,&#8221; which is Latin for &#8220;We are one family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/sports\/candidates-chess-prize-money-d-gukesh-13762272.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>How much prize money did D Gukesh earn by winning Candidates Chess tournament?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates Chess Tournament is the final event in the World Championship cycle before the World Championship match itself.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}