2025 FIDE Grand Swiss: Official Discussion Thread

The 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss—Open and Women—are part of the World Championship cycle, taking place September 4-15 with $625,000 and $230,000 prize funds respectively, and determining two of the eight players who'll make it to the next Candidates Tournament of each section.

Confirmed Players: Top 10 Seeds. Full open list on the event's website.

Confirmed Players: Featured. Full women list on the event's website.

The following players are eligible to participate in the FIDE Grand Swiss:
Open: The top 100 players by rating, the world champion, four continental spots, four players invited by FIDE, and four players invited by the organizer.
Women: The 44 top women by rating, four continent spots, four players nominated by FIDE, and four players nominated by the organizer.

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Find all relevant links/info below and use the comments for discussion on the event.

• Announcement - Chess.com preamble news item on the event
• Events Page - Full info with Schedule, Format, Players, Games, Prizes, and more
• Open List - Find out all open section players in the event's website
• Women List - Find out all women section players in the event's website

• Prize Fund - Open: $625,000 • Women: $230,000
• Format - Classical (see format above)
• Date - September 4-15
• Location - Silk Road EXPO in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

1st choice: pragnananda

2nd choice: Levon Aronian

So many good players I like Levon ..Alireza..Anish …wow these guys make chess worth watching. But I really want to see Arjun or Pragg take this one. For the women off course Harika or Vaishali.

All the best to all the players may the best Man/Woman win.

I would bet my money on Gukesh winning. The extremely long time controls and long drawn out matches with very little time pressure suits his style perfectly. Gukesh thrives in such formats.

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hi

Wow

Magnus will come whenever he wants to join the tournament even without an invite 🤣

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yeah

When start

Alireza

Alireza gonna get this

So excited to see so many players from Aix-en-Provence: Etienne of course, but also Jorden, Pavel, Daniil Y, Chepa, etc... 8 total ! And I can't even count how many players from elsewhere were also in our summer tournament in July... lots of boards to follow ;-) !

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Hallo

prag will win it

Rooting for Olisa Tennyson 🇳🇬

Nodirbek Abdusattorov hopefully will make his road to candidates