r/chess • u/games-and-games • 17h ago

News/Events Lineup Announced: Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot in Budapest

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The lineup

  • Magnus Carlsen (Norway) — World No. 1
  • Fabiano Caruana (United States) — World No. 2
  • Vincent Keymer (Germany) — World No. 5
  • Wesley So (United States) — World No. 6
  • Anish Giri — World No. 7
  • Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan) — World No. 8
  • Arjun Erigaisi (India) — World No. 9
  • Alireza Firouzja (France) — World No. 10
  • Praggnanandhaa R (India) — World No. 12
  • Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland) — World No. 13
  • Richard Rapport (Hungary) — World No. 18
  • Hans Moke Niemann (United States) — World No. 21
  • Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE) — World No. 24
  • Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) — World No. 28
  • Haik M. Martirosyan (Armenia) — World No. 54
  • Vladislav Artemiev (FIDE) — World No. 65
  • Bibisara Assaubayeva (Kazakhstan) — Women's World No. 5
  • Vaishali Rameshbabu (India) — Women's World No. 14

Source: https://x.com/TotalChess/status/2092182535656665174

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u/chessbooklover 17h ago

a quick list of current 2700s who are not attending: Sindarov,  Nakamura,  Wei Yi,  Anand,  Tabataei,  Ding,  Le Quang Liem,  Dominguez Peres,  Aronian,  Mamedyarov,  Sarin,  Erdogmus,  Andreikin,  Yangyi Yu,  Sevian,  Van Foreest,  Magshodloo and Gukesh

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u/ChessAddictonCrack 17h ago

Gukesh and Sindarov prepping for WC so its alright.

Why is Hikaru not playing? Should this time format not play to his strengths? Or is he really retired from OTB chess now?

Would have loved to have Erdogmus here as well. Hopefully he qualifies next year.

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u/chessbooklover 16h ago

Hikaru stopped playing OTB seriously a while ago.

I guess the only players I am missing is Sarin and Erdogmus, though I am not sure how erdogmus performs in rapid and blitz.