The FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024 takes place from the 4th to the 22nd of April in Toronto, Canada, deciding the challenger of World Champion Ding Liren in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2024. The tournament is played as a double round-robin with 14 rounds.

Time control is 120 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 41.

Players cannot draw by agreement before Black's 40th move. In the case of a tie for first place after 14 rounds, a playoff is played.

The total prize fund is €500,000.

Official Website | Players | Pairings | Results

Event Coverage: Twitch | YouTube

Crosstable and final standings after tiebreak criteria

Rank	Player	Score	SB	W	GD	HN	IN	FC	RP	VG	AF	NA
1	Gukesh D	9 / 14	57	5	-	½ ½	½ ½	½ ½	½ 1	½ 1	1 0	1 1
2a	Hikaru Nakamura	8.5 / 14	56	5	½ ½	-	½ ½	1 ½	½ 1	0 0	1 1	1 ½
3a	Ian Nepomniachtchi	8.5 / 14	56	3	½ ½	½ ½	-	½ ½	½ ½	1 1	1 ½	½ ½
4b	Fabiano Caruana	8.5 / 14	54	4	½ ½	½ 0	½ ½	-	½ 1	1 ½	1 ½	1 ½
5	R Praggnanandhaa	7 / 14	42 ½	3	0 ½	0 ½	½ ½	0 ½	-	½ 1	½ ½	1 1
6	Vidit Gujrathi	6 / 14	40 1⁄4	3	0 ½	1 1	0 0	½ 0	0 ½	-	1 ½	½ ½
7	Alireza Firouzja	5 / 14	32 3⁄4	2	1 0	0 0	½ 0	½ 0	½ ½	½ 0	-	1 ½
8	Nijat Abasov	3.5 / 14	25 ½	0	0 0	½ 0	½ ½	½ 0	0 0	½ ½	½ 0	-

a: Sonneborn-Berger scores (SB), total number of wins (W)
b: Sonneborn-Berger scores (SB)

FIDE Candidates 2024