2024 FIDE World Championship
World Chess Championship 2024 Info at a glance
Results
Schedule
Players
Ding Liren
China
GM Ding Liren is the current world champion. Ding finished second in the 2022 Candidates Tournament and earned the right to play for the crown when GM Magnus Carlsen abdicated the throne. Ding then defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the tiebreaks of one of the most thrilling World Championship matches in recent years to earn the crown.
Gukesh Dommaraju
India
GM Gukesh Dommaraju is the youngest Challenger in chess history. The Indian prodigy qualified to play in the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament through the FIDE Circuit. Considered an underdog by many, Gukesh had a stunning performance, winning five games and losing only one to win the Candidates by a half-point margin.
Ding vs Gukesh
Ding Liren
Gukesh Dommaraju
- The match will consist of up to 14 classical games
- The first player to score 7.5 points becomes the world champion
- The time control is 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 60 more minutes for the next 20 moves, then 15 more minutes for the rest of the game. There's a 30-second increment per move starting on move 61.
- Players are not allowed to draw by agreement before move 41.
- Four-game rapid playoff with a 15+10 time control
- Two-game playoff with a 10+5 time control
- Another two-game playoff with a 3+2 time control
- 3+2 individual games until there's a winner
$2,500,000
Prize money
The winner of the match becomes the FIDE World Champion.