FIDE World Chess Cup 2023
FIDE World Chess Cup 2023
The 2023 FIDE World Cup is a 206-player knockout taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan from July 30 to August 24. The top 3 players qualify for the 2024 Candidates Tournament.
Format
Each match consists of two classical games of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves and 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with increment of 30 seconds per move. No draw offers are allowed until after move 30.
In case of a tie, a play-off is played the third day, consisting in two 25+10 rapid games, then two 10+10 games and then two 5+3 games. If still tied, individual 3+2 games until a player wins.
Players
206 players are participating in the open section, and 103 in the Women's section. The top 50 are seeded directly to round 2.
The list of players includes Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Ju Wenjun and many others.
Schedule
- Round 1: July 30-August 1
- Round 2: August 2-August 4
- Round 3: August 5-August 7
- Round 4: August 9-August 11
- Round 5: August 12-August 14
- Round 6: August 15-August 17
- Round 7: August 19-August 21
- Final & 3rd place match: August 22-August 24
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Round 2 - Open Section
Day 1
- Pantsulaia vs Carlsen 0-1
- Nakamura vs Karthik 1/2-1/2
- Mchedlishvili vs Caruana 0-1
- Nepo vs Asadli 1-0
- Nesterov vs Giri 1/2-1/2
- So vs Can 1/2-1/2
- Erdos vs Radjabov 1/2-1/2
- Gukesh vs Iskandarov 1-0
- Tin vs Mamedyarov 1/2-1/2
- MVL vs Dragnev 1/2-1/2
- Janik vs Domínguz Pérez 0-1
- Grischuk vs Daneshvar 1/2-1/2
- Kuybokarov vs Yu Yangyi
- Duda vs Cordova 1-0
- Ivanisevic vs Le Quang 1/2-1/2
- Wei Yi vs Supi 1-0
- Sanal vs Abdusattorov 1/2-1/2
- Vitugov vs Fridman 1-0
- Suleimanli vs Maghsoodloo 0-1
- Vidit vs Mastrovasilis 1/2-1/2
- Adhiban vs Dubov 0-1
- Shankland vs Schitco 0-1
- Azarov vs Erigasi 1/2-1/2
- Wang vs Jumbayev 1/2-1/2
- Ivic vs Vallejo Pons 0-1
- Amin vs Albornoz Cabrera 1/2-1/2
- Smirin vs Shevchenko 0-1
- van Foreest vs Adly 1/2-1/2
- Acosta vs Deac 0-1
- Antón Guijarro vs Gadimbayli 1/2-1/2
- Lagarde vs Pragg 0-1
- Keymer vs Dardha 1-0
- Salinas Herrera vs Tabatabaei 1/2-1/2
- Navara vs Huschenbeth 1/2-1/2
- Fier vs Robson 1/2-1/2
- Nihal vs Bachmann 1-0
- Puranik vs Svidler 0-1
- Sarana vs Huang 1/2-1/2
- Antipov vs Grandelius 1/2-1/2
- Esipenko vs Safarli 1/2-1/2
- Brkic vs Howell 1/2-1/2
- Fedoseev vs Pechac 1/2-1/2
- de Silva vs Wojtaszek 1/2-1/2
- Volokitin vs Vocaturo 1/2-1/2
- Paravyan vs Bluebaum 1/2-1/2
- Donchenko vs Martel 1/2-1/2
- Berkes vs Gelfand 1/2-1/2
- Korobov vs Iturrizaga Bonelli 1-0
- Henriquez Villagra vs Ivanchuk 1/2-1/2
- Ponomariov vs Kollars 1/2-1/2
- F. Svane vs Cheparinov 1/2-1/2
- Bacrot vs Indjic 1/2-1/2
- Leiva vs Salem 1/2-1/2
- Guseinov vs Bjerre 1/2-1/2
- Ragger vs Sindarov 1/2-1/2
- Saric vs R. Svane 1/2-1/2
- Kuzubov vs Narayanan 1/2-1/2
- Santos Latasa vs Meier 1/2-1/2
- Durarbayli vs Moussard 0-1
- Freesinet vs Abasov 1/2-1/2
- Mamedov vs Predke 1/2-1/2
- Liang vs Yilmaz 1/2-1/2
- Yakubboev vs Gledura 1/2-1/2
- Nguyen vs Tari 0-1
Round 2 - Women's Section
Day 1
- Ju Wenjun vs Repkova 1/2-1/2
- Ordaz Valdes vs Goryachkina 1/2-1/2
- Koneru vs Priyanka 1-0
- Gomes vs Lagno 1/2-1/2
- Kosteniuk vs Yan 1-0
- Ryjanova vs Tan 1/2-1/2
- Dzagnidze vs Kulon 1/2-1/2
- Rakhmangulova vs M. Muzychuk 1/2-1/2
- A. Muzychuk vs Daulyte 1-0
- Rudzinska vs Dronavalli 0-1
- Zhu vs Francisco Guecamburu 1-0
- Beydullayeva vs Shuvalova 0-1
- Khademalsharieh vs Aulia 0-1
- Cyfka vs Khotenasvili 1/2-1/2
- Batsiashvili vs Mammadova 1-0
- Munkhzul vs Paehtz 0-1
- Assaubayeva vs Gong 1/2-1/2
- Yip vs Zhao 0-1
- Arabidze vs Cori 1-0
- Bivol vs Mammadzada 1-0
- Krush vs Quellet 1-0
- Tsolakidou vs Osmak 1/2-1/2
- Javakhishvili vs Munguntuul 1-0
- Melia vs Ushenina 1/2-1/2
- Vaishali vs Guichard 1-0
- Mona vs Roebers 0-1
- Bulmaga vs Narva 0-1
- Milliet vs Injac 1/2-1/2
- Salimova vs Kiolbasa 1-0
- Badelka vs Garifullina 1-0
- Hoang vs Divya 1/2-1/2
- Fataliyeva vs Socko 1/2-1/2
Round 1 - Women's Section
Classified for Round 2 after day 2
- Eva Repkova 🇷🇸 2312
- Ulviyya Fataliyeva 🇦🇿 2401
- Monika Socko 🇵🇱 2401
- Qianyun Gong 🇸🇬 2223
- Turmunkh Munkhzul 🇲🇳 2226
- Deimante Daulyte-Cornette 🇫🇷 2348
- Tianqi Yan 🇨🇳 2277
- Sophie Milliet 🇫🇷 2388
- Teodora Injac 🇷🇸 2415
- Maili-Jade Ouellet 🇨🇦 2201
- Govhar Beydullayeva 🇦🇿 2355
- Medina Warda Aulia 🇮🇩 2355
- Alina Bivol 🏳️ 2371
- Nurgyul Sailmova 🇧🇬 2409
- Oliwia Kiolbasa 🇵🇱 2394
- Mary Ann Gomes 🇮🇳 2326
- Olga Badelka 🏳️ 2397
- Leya Garifullina 🏳️ 2408
- Stavroula Tsolakidou 🇬🇷 2373
- Irina Bulmaga 🇷🇴 2416
- Mai Narva 🇪🇪 2387
- Julia Ryjanova 🇦🇺 2273
- Klaudia Kulon 🇵🇱 2331
- Eline Roebers 🇳🇱 2419
- Gulnar Mammadova 🇦🇿 2357
- Carissa Yip 🇺🇸 2369
- Thanh Trang Hoang 🇭🇺 2402
- Divya Deshmukh 🇮🇳 2400
- Lisandra Teresa Ordaz Valdés 🇨🇺 2318
Round 1 - Open Section
Classified for Round 2 after day 2
- Aryan Tari 🇳🇴 2641
- Thai Dai Van Nguyen 🇨🇿 2642
- Pablo Salinas Herrera 🇨🇱 2648
- Daniel Dardha 🇧🇪 2600
- Cristóbal Henríquez Villagra 🇨🇱 2618
- Jingyao Tin 🇸🇬 2573
- Rasmus Svane 🇩🇪 2625
- Ivan Saric 🇭🇷 2657
- S. L. Narayanan 🇮🇳 2656
- Yuriy Kuzubov 🇺🇦 2628
- Nijat Abasov 🇦🇿 2632
- Laurent Fressinet 🇫🇷 2652
- Abhimanyu Puranik 🇮🇳 2605
- Ahmed Adly 🇪🇬 2596
- Daniele Vocaturo 🇮🇹 2609
- A. R. Saleh Salem 🇦🇪 2661
- Gianmarco Leiva 🇵🇪 2374
- Bardiya Daneshvar 🇮🇷 2577
- Temur Kuybokarov 🇦🇺 2581
- Aleksandar Indjic 🇷🇸 2619
- Etienne Bacrot 🇫🇷 2662
- David Paravyan 🏳️ 2612
- Axel Bachmann 🇵🇾 2604
- Alexandr Predke 🇷🇸 2651
- Rauf Mamedov 🇦🇿 2636
- Mustafa Yilmaz 🇹🇷 2639
- Awonder Liang 🇺🇸 2649
- Alexandr Fier 🇧🇷 2604
- Ivan Cheparinov 🇧🇬 2663
- Frederik Svane 🇩🇪 2618
- Emilio Cordova 🇵🇪 2542
- Jonas Buhl Bjerre 🇩🇰 2624
- Gadir Guseinov 🇦🇿 2661
- L M S T De Silva 🇱🇰 2433
- Ivan Schitco 🇲🇩 2507
- Jules Moussard 🇫🇷 2654
- Vasif Durarbayli 🇦🇿 2631
- Viktor Erdos 🇭🇺 2571
- Georg Meier 🇺🇾 2629
- Jaime Santos Latasa 🇪🇸 2656
- Mikhail Antipov 🏳️ 2606
- Sergei Azarov 🏳️ 2589
- Jergus Pechac 🇷🇸 2608
- Javokhir Sindarov 🇺🇿 2659
- Valentin Gradnev 🇦🇹 2576
- Ivan Ivanisevic 🇷🇸 2536
- Dimitrij Kollars 🇩🇪 2618
- Daniel Fridman 🇩🇪 2586
- Maxime Lagarde 🇫🇷 2599
- Niclas Huschenbeth 🇩🇪 2603
- Benjamin Gledura 🇭🇺 2645
- Nodirbek Yakubboev 🇺🇿 2640
- Karthik Venkataraman 🇮🇳 2565
Note: Chessbrah's Eric Hansen couldn't participate in the event
Round 5 (8th-final) - Open Section
August 12 - August 14
Bracket
Odds for the remaining top 10 seeds
Seed Player Odds of for next round Winning odds 1 Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 2835 88.16% 39.13% 3 Fabiano Caruana 🇺🇸 2782 64.77% 15.17% 4 Ian Nepomniachtchi 🏳️ 2779 67.343% 14.96% 8 Gukesh D 🇮🇳 2744 60.47% 4.95% Round 3 (32nd-finals) - Open Section
August 5 - August 7
Bracket:
Odds for the remaining top 10 seeds
Seed Player Odds of for next round Winning odds 1 Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 2835 91.06% 28.73% 2 Hikaru Nakamura 🇺🇸 2787 84.14% 10.06% 3 Fabiano Caruana 🇺🇸 2782 84.25% 9.1% 4 Ian Nepomniachtchi 🏳️ 2779 84.22% 7.87% 5 Anish Giri 🇳🇱 2775 84.19% 7.65% 6 Wesley So 🇺🇸 2769 79.38% 6.08% 7 Teimour Radjabov 🇦🇿 2747 74.37% 3.13% 8 Gukesh D 🇮🇳 2744 73.69% 2.94% 10 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 🇫🇷 2739 71.86% 2.33 % Round 3 (16th-final) - Women's Section
August 5 - August 7
Bracket
Odds for the remaining top 10 seeds
Seed Player Odds of for next round Winning odds 1 Ju Wenjun 🇨🇳 2564 85.52% 18.18% 2 Aleksandra Goryachkina 🏳️ 2557 84.64% 16.43% 3 Humpy Koneru 🇮🇳 2553 84.47% 14.15% 5 Alexandra Kosteniuk 🇨🇭 2532 77.93% 11.44% 6 Zhongyi Tan 🇨🇳 2523 81.18% 7.07% 8 Mariya Muzychuk 🇺🇦 2511 70.31% 4.87% 9 Anna Muzychuk 🇺🇦 2504 69.19% 4.57% 10 Harika Dronavalli 🇮🇳 2500 65.91% 4.55% Round 4 (16th-final) - Open Section
August 9 - August 11
Bracket
Odds for the remaining top 10 seeds
Seed Player Odds of for next round Winning odds 1 Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 2835 85.01% 34.2% 2 Hikaru Nakamura 🇺🇸 2787 75.98% 14.86% 3 Fabiano Caruana 🇺🇸 2782 75.09% 9.48% 4 Ian Nepomniachtchi 🏳️ 2779 74.63% 11.31% 6 Wesley So 🇺🇸 2769 73.01% 7.04% 8 Gukesh D 🇮🇳 2744 67.35% 4.03% Round 4 (8th-final) - Women's Section
August 9 - August 11
Bracket
Odds for the remaining top 10 seeds
Seed Player Odds of for next round Winning odds 1 Ju Wenjun 🇨🇳 2564 73.44% 21.32% 2 Aleksandra Goryachkina 🏳️ 2557 71.25% 17.71% 3 Humpy Koneru 🇮🇳 2553 70.12% 14.99% 6 Zhongyi Tan 🇨🇳 2523 56.87% 7.2% 8 Mariya Muzychuk 🇺🇦 2511 50.55% 6.22% 9 Anna Muzychuk 🇺🇦 2504 49.45% 5.9% 10 Harika Dronavalli 🇮🇳 2500 70.47% 5.76% Round 6 (Semifinals) - Women's Section
August 15 - August 14
Bracket
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S1: Anna Muzychuk vs Nurgyul Salimova
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S2: Zhongyi Tan vs Aleksandra Goryachkina
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3rd place match: Loser of S1 vs Loser of S2
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Final: Winner of S1 vs Winner of S2
Winning odds
Seed Player Odds of for next round Winning odds 2 Aleksandra Goryachkina 🏳️ 2557 59.41% 40.51% 6 Zhongyi Tan 🇨🇳 2523 40.59% 24.49% 9 Anna Muzychuk 🇺🇦 2504 74.51% 30.33% 28 Nurgyul Salimova 🇧🇬 2409 25.49% 4.87% -
Round 6 (Quarterfinals) - Open Section
August 15 - August 17
Bracket
- Q1: Magnus Carlsen vs Gukesh D
- Q2; Santosh Gujrathi Vidit vs Nijat Abasov
- Q3: Fabiano Caruana vs Leinier Domínguez Pérez
- Q4: Erigaisi Arjun vs Praggnanandhaa R 2690
- S1: Winner of Q1 vs Winner of Q2
- S2: Winner of Q3 vs Winner of Q4
- 3rd place match: Loser of S1 vs Loser of S2
- Final: Winner of S1 vs Winner of S2
Winning odds
Seed Player Odds of for next round Winning odds 1 Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 2835 75.12% 46.12% 3 Fabiano Caruana 🇺🇸 2782 62.88% 21.06% 8 Gukesh D 🇮🇳 2744 24.88% 7.71% 11 Leinier Domínguez Pérez 🇺🇸 2739 37.12% 8.02% 20 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 🇮🇳 2719 73.27% 7.84% 23 Erigaisi Arjun 🇮🇳 2710 55.95% 5.45% 30 Praggnanandhaa R 🇮🇳 2690 44.05% 3.14% 69 Nijat Abasov 🇦🇿 2632 26.73% 0.66% Round 5 (Quarterfinals) - Women's Section
August 12 - August 14
Bracket
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Q1: Elizabeth Paehtz vs Anna Muzychuk
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Q2: Polina Shuvalova vs Nurgyul Salimova
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Q3 Zhongyi Tan vs Bella Khotenashvili
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Q4: Aleksandra Goryachkina vs Harika Dronavalli
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S1: Winner of Q1 vs Winner of Q2
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S2: Winner of Q3 vs Winner of Q4
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3rd place match: Loser of S1 vs Loser of S2
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Final: Winner of S1 vs Winner of S2
Winning odds
Seed Player Odds of for next round Winning odds 2 Aleksandra Goryachkina 🏳️ 2557 65.24% 28.09% 6 Zhongyi Tan 🇨🇳 2523 62.86% 17.09% 9 Anna Muzychuk 🇺🇦 2504 60.27% 16.15% 10 Harika Dronavalli 🇮🇳 2500 34.76% 8.93% 12 Polina Shuvalova 🏳️ 2496 71.74% 15.11% 14 Bella Khotenashvili 🇬🇪 2475 37.14% 5.82% 16 Elizabeth Paehtz 🇩🇪 2474 39.73% 6.99% 28 Nurgyul Salimova 🇧🇬 2409 28.26% 1.82% -
Round 7 (Semifinals) - Open Section
August 19 - August 21
Bracket
- S1: Carlsen vs Abasov
- S2: Caruana vs Pragg
- 3rd place match: Loser of S1 vs Loser of S2
- Final: Winner of S1 vs Winner of S2
Winning odds
Seed Player Odds of for next round Winning odds 1 Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 2835 91.92% 64.99% 3 Fabiano Caruana 🇺🇸 2782 74.87% 28.62% 30 Praggnanandhaa R 🇮🇳 2690 25.13% 4.81% 69 Nijat Abasov 🇦🇿 2632 8.08% 1.58%
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