Tata Steel Chess 2025 participants and information

Tata Steel Chess 2025 will take place in Wijk aan Zee from 17 January to 2 February 2025. The field of participants of the 87th Tata Steel Chess Tournament is once again extremely strong, with no fewer than five players from the global top ten. The new world champion may also be on display, as Gukesh is in the list of participants. World Chess Championship 2024 – Gukesh vs Ding Liren is in Singapore from 23 November to 13 December and, at eighteen, could become the youngest world champion in history. Gukesh is a good friend of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee: last year he lost in the thrilling final in the tiebreak to Wei Yi from China. Wei Yi will of course defend his title.

Tata Steel Chess Championship 2025 will feature @FabianoCaruana , @ArjunErigaisi , Abdusattorov, added to a strong field and the possibility of a new world champion present, as @DGukesh is in the listhttps://t.co/BTA6Bh1u7H @tatasteelchess

— Chessdom (@chessdom) November 19, 2024

Previous winners Fabiano Caruana from the United States and the Dutch players Anish Giri and Jorden van Foreest are also making another attempt at the title in the Masters tournament. Tournament director Jeroen van den Berg is pleased with the field of participants. “I am always looking for a combination of well-known top players and talents.

The Masters are attended by Grandmasters who can still be seen as talented in terms of age, but who have been performing so well in terms of performance that they have actually outgrown that status. I am mainly talking about Praggnanandhaa, Abdusattorov and indeed Gukesh. I am proud when I see how they, partly due to their previous participation in our tournament, are now really structurally among the world’s top. In addition, I aim to select as many players as possible who enjoy a fight. In that respect too, I think we can expect an interesting tournament.”

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Tata Steel Chess 2025 participants

Name	Country	World N	Rating	Birth year
Fabiano Caruana	USA	2	2805	1992
Arjun Erigaisi	India	4	2799	2003
Dommaraju Gukesh	India	5	2783	2006
Nodirbek Abdusattorov	Uzbekistan	6	2777	2004
Wei Yi	China	9	2753	1999
Vidit Gujrathi	India	15	2739	1994
R Praggnanandhaa	India	18	2737	2005
Vincent Keymer	Germany	21	2733	2004
Anish Giri	Nederland	22	2733	1994
Vladimir Fedoseev	Slovenia	27	2712	1995
Jorden van Foreest	Nederland	41	2687	1999
Alexey Sarana	Serbia	49	2679	2000
Max Warmerdam	Nederland	78	2653	2000
Leon Luke Mendonca	India	114	2631	2006

The currently lesser-known talents will play in the Challengers tournament. Among others, the two reigning youth world champions Kazybek Nogerbek (Kazakhstan) and Divya Deshmukh (India) will play there. But also the eleven-year-old promise Faustino Oro from Argentina, the fourteen-year-old Lu Miaoyi from China and the sixteen-year-old Ediz Gürel from Turkey have been invited by Van den Berg. Van den Berg: “I am really looking forward to their arrival and I am curious whether they can make the same great steps as the aforementioned names at the Masters. Our tournament really proves to be a springboard to the world top, and we as an organization are very proud of that.”

Challengers

Name	Country	World rank	Rating	Birth year
Thai Dai Van Nguyen	Czech Republic	59	2670	2001
Nodirbek Yakubboev	Uzbekistan	62	2668	2002
Frederik Svane	Germany	72	2654	2004
Ediz Gürel	Turkyie	108	2635	2008
Aydin Suleymanli	Azerbaijan	113	2632	2005
Erwin l’Ami	Nederland	136	2614	1985
Benjamin Bok	Nederland	200	2593	1995
Kazybek Nogerbek	Kazakhstan	455	2527	2004
Divya Deshmukh	India	664	2793	2005
Rameshbabu Vaishali	India	691	2490	2001
Arthur Pijpers	Nederland	847	2472	1994
Lu Miaoyi	China	1170	2441	2010
Faustino Oro	Argentina	1245	2433	2013
Irina Bulmaga	Romania	1737	2401	1993