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* If both blitz mini-matches are drawn, a single game with a time control of 3 minutes per side and a 2-second increment starting with move 1 will be played, and the winner would win the championship. A drawing of lots shall decide which player plays with the white pieces. If this game is drawn, another blitz game with reversed colours will be played with the same time control, and the winner would win the championship. This process will be repeated until either player wins a game.
* If both blitz mini-matches are drawn, a single game with a time control of 3 minutes per side and a 2-second increment starting with move 1 will be played, and the winner would win the championship. A drawing of lots shall decide which player plays with the white pieces. If this game is drawn, another blitz game with reversed colours will be played with the same time control, and the winner would win the championship. This process will be repeated until either player wins a game.


Players will not be allowed to [[Draw by agreement|agree to a draw]] before Black's 40th move. A draw claim before then will permitted only through the arbiter, if a [[threefold repetition]] or [[stalemate]] has occurred.<ref name="regulations" />
Players will not be allowed to [[Draw by agreement|agree to a draw]] before Black's 40th move. A draw claim before then will only be permitted through the arbiter if a [[threefold repetition]] or [[stalemate]] has occurred.<ref name="regulations" />


===Previous head-to-head record===
===Previous head-to-head record===

Revision as of 20:56, 5 April 2023

World Chess Championship 2023
St Regis Hotel, Astana, Kazakhstan
7 April – 1 May 2023
 
Candidates Tournament winner
Candidates Tournament runner-up
 
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Ding Liren
Ding Liren
  FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi China Ding Liren
  Born 14 July 1990
32 years old		 Born 24 October 1992
30 years old
  Winner of the Candidates Tournament 2022 Runner-up of the Candidates Tournament 2022
  Rating: 2795 (April 2023)
(World No. 2)		 Rating: 2788 (April 2023)
(World No. 3)
← 2021

The World Chess Championship 2023 is an upcoming chess match, taking place from 7 April to 1 May 2023 to determine the new World Chess Champion. The match will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan, from 7 April to 1 May 2023, and will be a best of 14 games, plus tiebreaks if required.[1]

The incumbent champion Magnus Carlsen decided not to defend his title against Ian Nepomniachtchi, the winner of the Candidates Tournament 2022.[2][3] Therefore, Nepomniachtchi will play the second-place finisher in the Candidates, Ding Liren, in the World Chess Championship match.

Carlsen declines to defend the title

The incumbent world champion is Magnus Carlsen, who first won the title in 2013. To keep the title, Carlsen is periodically required to defend it in a Chess World Championship match against a challenger, determined by a Candidates Tournament. Carlsen successfully defended the title in the world championship matches of 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2021. In December 2021, soon after the 2021 championship (against Ian Nepomniachtchi), Carlsen stated that he lacked the motivation to defend his title again, unless the challenger was Alireza Firouzja. Firouzja had risen to number two in the world rankings in 2021 at the age of 18.[4] In April 2022, Carlsen again publicly stated that he was unlikely to play in the next world championship, this time without mentioning any potential opponent.[5]

The Candidates Tournament 2022 concluded in early July 2022, with Nepomniachtchi as its winner. FIDE and Carlsen were already in talks regarding the world championship match and its format.[6] On 20 July, Carlsen announced that he would not defend his title.[7] Therefore the 2023 world championship match will be between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren, respectively the winner and runner up of the 2022 Candidates Tournament, with Carlsen set to lose the title of world champion when the match concludes.[7][8][9] After Carlsen formally confirmed his decision in writing, FIDE officially invited Ding and Nepomniachtchi to participate in the 2023 world championship.[10]

Non-participation by the incumbent champion is a rare situation. In 1993 incumbent Garry Kasparov was stripped of his title by FIDE, but he still claimed to be the world champion, setting up a situation where there were two rival world championships between from 1993–2006.[11] Outside that period, the last reigning champion who declined to take part was Bobby Fischer in 1975. In that case, FIDE awarded the title to Fischer's challenger, Anatoly Karpov, the winner of the Candidates Tournament.[12] The last time an undisputed world championship was actually played without the defending champion was in 1948, because the previous champion Alexander Alekhine had died in 1946.[13]

Candidates Tournament 2022

Main article: Candidates Tournament 2022

The challengers are Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren, who qualified as the winner and runner-up, respectively, in the Candidates Tournament 2022, which began on June 16 and ended on July 5, 2022.[14] Nepomniachtchi had previously challenged world champion Carlsen in the previous World Chess Championship 2021.

The participants were:

Qualification method Player Age Rating World

ranking

(June 2022)[15]
2021 World Championship runner-up FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi[a] 31 2766 7
Candidate nominated by FIDE Azerbaijan Teimour Radjabov 35 2753 13
The top two finishers in the Chess World Cup 2021 Poland Jan-Krzysztof Duda (winner) 24 2750 16
FIDE Sergey Karjakin[a] (runner-up) (Disqualified) 32 2747 17
The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 France Alireza Firouzja (winner) 19 2793 3
United States Fabiano Caruana (runner-up) 29 2783 4
The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Prix 2022 United States Hikaru Nakamura (winner) 34 2760 11
Hungary Richárd Rapport (runner-up) 26 2764 8
Highest rating for May 2022 China Ding Liren (replacement for Karjakin) 29 2806 2

Results

As world champion Carlsen announced after the tournament that he would not defend the world title, both first and second place advanced to the 2023 title match.

Standings of the 2022 Candidates Tournament
Rank Player
 Score SB Wins IN DL TR HN FC AF JKD RR
1  Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE) 9.5 / 14 62 5 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1
2  Ding Liren (CHN) 8 / 14 52 4 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1
3  Teimour Radjabov (AZE) 7.5 / 14 52 3 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1
4  Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 7.5 / 14 50.25 4 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 0 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½
5  Fabiano Caruana (USA) 6.5 / 14 46.5 3 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 0 0 1 ½ 0 ½ ½
6  Alireza Firouzja (FRA) 6 / 14 39.5 2 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½
7  Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL) 5.5 / 14 38.5 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0
8  Richárd Rapport (HUN) 5.5 / 14 37.75 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½
Source: [17]

Tie-breakers for first place: (1) results in tie-break games for first place;

Tie breakers for non-first place: (1) results in tie-break games for first place, if any; (2) Sonneborn–Berger score (SB); (3) total number of wins; (4) head-to-head score among tied players; (5) drawing of lots.[18]

Note: Numbers in the crosstable in a white background indicate the result playing the respective opponent with the white pieces (black pieces if on a black background). This does not give information which of the two games was played in the first half of the tournament, and which in the second.

Championship match

Organization

The match will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan, from 7 April to 1 May 2023 at the St Regis Astana Hotel.[19][1]

The prize fund will be €2 million, split 60% vs 40% between the winner and the runner-up if either player scores 7½ or more points in the classical portion of the match. If the match is tied after 14 classical games, the prize fund will be split 55% vs 45% in favor of the winner of the tiebreak.

Match regulations

The time control for each game in the classical portion of the match will be 120 minutes per side for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 moves, and 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment per move starting with move 61.[20]

The match will be a best of 14 games; a score of at least 7½ would win the world championship. If the score is equal after 14 games, tiebreak games with faster time controls will be played:[20]

  • A match consisting of 4 rapid games with 25 minutes per side and a 10-second increment starting with move 1 will be played. If a player scores 2½ points or more, he would win the championship.
  • If the score is equal after the rapid portion, a mini-match of two blitz games will be played, with a time control of 5 minutes per side and a 3-second increment starting with move 1. If a player scores 1½ points or more, he would win the championship. If the blitz mini-match is tied, another mini-match with the same conditions will be played to decide the winner of the championship.
  • If both blitz mini-matches are drawn, a single game with a time control of 3 minutes per side and a 2-second increment starting with move 1 will be played, and the winner would win the championship. A drawing of lots shall decide which player plays with the white pieces. If this game is drawn, another blitz game with reversed colours will be played with the same time control, and the winner would win the championship. This process will be repeated until either player wins a game.

Players will not be allowed to agree to a draw before Black's 40th move. A draw claim before then will only be permitted through the arbiter if a threefold repetition or stalemate has occurred.[20]

Previous head-to-head record

The pre-match head-to-head score between Nepomniachtchi and Ding in classical games is: 3 wins for Nepomniachtchi, 2 wins for Ding, with 8 draws.[21] Their most recent pre-championship games, during the 2022 Candidates tournament, resulted in one win to Nepomniachtchi and one draw.[22][23]

Head-to-head record[22]
Nepomniachtchi wins Draw Ding wins Total
Classical Nepomniachtchi (white) – Ding (black) 2 5 0 7
Ding (white) – Nepomniachtchi (black) 1 3 2 6
Total 3 8 2 13
Blitz / rapid / exhibition 13 17 9 39
Total 16 25 11 52

Schedule

Games will start at 15:00 local time (EKT), which is 09:00 UTC.

The closing ceremony will be held on 30 April if a player has already won the match in the classical portion.

If the match ends before 14 games (because one player has reached 7½ or more points), the closing ceremony will be conducted either on the day of the last game or the following day of the last game.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Russian players' flags were displayed as the FIDE flag, as Russian and Belarusian flags are banned from FIDE-rated events in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b "World Championship match: venue, commentators & schedule". FIDE. 19 January 2023. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  2. ^ FIDE announces qualification paths for Candidates Tournament 2022, FIDE, 25 May 2021
  3. ^ Doggers, Peter (2022-07-20). "BREAKING: Carlsen Not To Defend World Title". Chess.com. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
  4. ^ Peter Doggers (December 21, 2021). "Carlsen Might Only Defend Title Vs. Firouzja". chess.com.
  5. ^ Leonard Barden (22 April 2022). "Chess: Magnus Carlsen 'unlikely' to defend crown, but questions remain". The Guardian.
  6. ^ "Ding beats Nakamura in the final round of the Candidates to finish in second place". The Week in Chess. 6 July 2022.
  7. ^ a b "Magnus Carlsen will not defend his title". Chess24. 20 July 2022.
  8. ^ "Regulations for the FIDE World Championship Match 2020" (PDF). FIDE. 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2021. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 6 May 2021 suggested (help)
  9. ^ "FIDE World Championship Match 2023 Qualification Rules". FIDE. 25 May 2022.
  10. ^ FIDE (31 October 2022). "Ding Liren gets official invitation to take part in FIDE World Championship match 2023". FIDE. FIDE. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  11. ^ "Kirsan, Putin and the world championship match". Chessbase. August 15, 2006.
  12. ^ Weeks, M. "World Chess Championship 1975: Fischer forfeits to Karpov". Archived from the original on 11 December 2008. Retrieved 16 September 2008.
  13. ^ Edward Winter (2003–2004). "Interregnum". Chess History Center.
  14. ^ "Candidates Tournament To Take Place June 2022 In Madrid Sponsored By Chess.com". chess.com. December 28, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  15. ^ Top 100 Players June 2022, FIDE
  16. ^ FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
  17. ^ "FIDE Candidates Tournament 2022". candidates.fide.com. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  18. ^ Cite error: The named reference FIDEregs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  19. ^ McGourty, Colin (19 January 2023). "Astana to host Nepomniachtchi-Ding Liren World Chess Championship match". Chess24. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  20. ^ a b c Regulations for the FIDE World Championship Match 2023, FIDE, 2023
  21. ^ https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?yearcomp=exactly&year=&playercomp=either&pid=54683&player=&pid2=52629&player2=&movescomp=exactly&moves=&opening=&eco=&result=
  22. ^ a b "Nepomniachtchi vs. Ding". Chessgames.com. Retrieved 30 March 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  23. ^ Doggers, Peter (5 July 2022). "Nepomniachtchi Increases Lead With Quick Draw As Nakamura Beats Caruana". Chess.com. Retrieved 30 March 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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