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The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 is taking place September 3 – September 16 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It will be an 11-round Swiss-system tournament and forms part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2026. The winner and runner-up of the tournament will earn the right to play in the Candidates Tournament 2026.

FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 is in the Top Chess Events Calendar for the year 2025 and also in the Asia Chess Calendar. For a complete list of events visit the main page of The Chess Calendar

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The 11-round Swiss format tournament will see 172 players take part – 116 in the Open and 56 in the Women’s tournament. As per regulations, the top two qualifiers in both the Open and the Women’s competition will qualify for the Candidates Chess 2026 tournament, where the challenger for the title of World Champion will be determined.

Apart from serving as the qualifier for the Candidates 2026, the Grand Swiss 2025 also features a notable prize fund, which has been significantly increased from the last edition. The prize fund in the Open is $625,000 (increased from $460,000 in 2023) and in the Women’s competition features a $230,000 prize fund (up from $140,000 in 2023).

Grand Swiss 2025 participants open (see the women section participants here)

FIDE has announced the first list of participants in the Grand Swiss. The highest rated players in the field are India’s superstars Arjun Erigaisi, World Champion Gukesh D, and Praggnanandhaa R. There other participants from top 10 the FIDE Top players rating list are Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Alireza Firouzja, and Anish Giri.

Significant misses include players that did not cover the requirements like Carlsen, Anand, Topalov, Le Quang Liem, etc see the full list here. From that list the only one saved so far by a FIDE President nomination is Boris Gelfand, while Goryachkina is the only female player to receive a nomination for the open section. Some players also declined participating, like Jan-Krzysztof Duda, who said, “I am fed up with classical chess, I might not participate in both the Grand Swiss and the World Cup”

Here is the full list of announced participants at the Grand Swiss Chess 2025.

1Erigaisi ArjunIND
2Gukesh DIND
3Abdusattorov, NodirbekUZB
4Praggnanandhaa RIND
5Firouzja, AlirezaFRA
6Nepomniachtchi, IanFID
7Giri, AnishNED
8Mamedyarov, ShakhriyarAZE
9Aronian, LevonUSA
10Fedoseev, VladimirSLO
11Vachier-Lagrave, MaximeFRA
12Niemann, Hans MokeUSA
13Keymer, VincentGER
14Vidit, Santosh GujrathiIND
15Yu, YangyiCHN
16Rapport, RichardHUN
17Sindarov, JavokhirUZB
18Harikrishna, PentalaIND
19Nihal SarinIND
20Liang, AwonderUSA
21Dubov, DaniilFID
22Maghsoodloo, ParhamIRI
23Esipenko, AndreyFID
24Van Foreest, JordenNED
25Robson, RayUSA
26Sevian, SamuelUSA
27Sarana, AlexeySRB
28Artemiev, VladislavFID
29Deac, Bogdan-DanielROU
30Sadhwani, RaunakIND
31Vitiugov, NikitaENG
32Sargsyan, ShantARM
33Eljanov, PavelUKR
34Svane, FrederikGER
35Grischuk, AlexanderFID
36Murzin, VolodarFID
37Shankland, SamUSA
38Bluebaum, MatthiasGER
39Indjic, AleksandarSRB
40Saric, IvanCRO
41Oparin, GrigoriyUSA
42Yakubboev, NodirbekUZB
43Navara, DavidCZE
44Yuffa, DaniilESP
45Mamedov, RaufAZE
46Karthikeyan, MuraliIND
47Tabatabaei, M. AminIRI
48Alekseenko, KirillAUT
49Bjerre, Jonas BuhlDEN
50Wojtaszek, RadoslawPOL
51Lu, ShangleiCHN
52Dardha, DanielBEL
53Rodshtein, MaximISR
54Vokhidov, ShamsiddinUZB
55Grandelius, NilsSWE
56Anton Guijarro, DavidESP
57Cheparinov, IvanBUL
58Daneshvar, BardiyaIRI
59Ivic, VelimirSRB
60Xiong, JefferyUSA
61Gurel, EdizTUR
62Amin, BassemEGY
63Chigaev, MaksimESP
64Martirosyan, Haik M.ARM
65Sjugirov, SananHUN
66Hovhannisyan, RobertARM
67Ivanchuk, VasylUKR
68Kollars, DmitrijGER
69Bacrot, EtienneFRA
70Korobov, AntonUKR
71Salem, A.R. SalehUAE
72Erdogmus, Yagiz KaanTUR
73Svane, RasmusGER
74Volokitin, AndreiUKR
75Sargissian, GabrielARM
76Matlakov, MaximFID
77Puranik, AbhimanyuIND
78Predke, AlexandrSRB
79Ponomariov, RuslanUKR
80Lagarde, MaximeFRA
81Santos Latasa, JaimeESP
82Hakobyan, AramARM
83Aryan ChopraIND
84Shirov, AlexeiESP
85Demchenko, AntonSLO
86Wagner, DennisGER
87Najer, EvgeniyFID
88Donchenko, AlexanderGER
89Theodorou, NikolasGRE
90Warmerdam, MaxNED
91Xu, XiangyuCHN
92Mishra, AbhimanyuUSA
93Muradli, MahammadAZE
94Suleymanli, AydinAZE
95Hammer, Jon LudvigNOR
96Maurizzi, Marc`AndriaFRA
97Gumularz, SzymonPOL
98Jobava, BaadurGEO
99Kuzubov, YuriyUKR
100Mendonca, Leon LukeIND
101Narayanan S LIND
Four Continent spots
1Olisa, Tennyson EwomazinoNGR
2Henriquez Villagra, CristobalCHI
3Moussard, JulesFRA
4TBD
Players nominated by the FIDE President
1Gelfand, BorisISR
2Goryachkina, AleksandraFID
3Zemlyanskii, IvanFID
4Woodward, AndyUSA
5Samunenkov, IhorUKR
Players nominated by the Organizer
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