2026–2027 FIDE Circuit

Event points

Circuit points obtained by a player from a tournament are calculated as follows:

${\displaystyle P=B\times k\times w}$

where:

• ${\displaystyle P}$ - Points obtained by player from the tournament
• ${\displaystyle B}$ - Basic points
• ${\displaystyle k}$ - Tournament strength factor, calculated as ${\displaystyle k=(TAR-2500)/100}$
• ${\displaystyle w}$ - Tournament weighting
  • 1.5 - World Chess Championship 2026
  • 1.0 - Standard (classical) tournaments with at most 1 'multi game-day', a day on which multiple games are played
  • 0.9 - Double Round Robin Tournaments with 6-7 players and classical tournaments with 2 multi-game days
  • 0.85 - Standard tournaments with 3 multi-game days
  • 0.8 - Total Chess World Championship Tour, World Rapid Championship, Knockout Tournaments with fewer than 6 rounds and standard tournaments with 4 multi-game days
  • 0.75 - Standard tournaments with 5 multi-game days
  • 0.7 - Standard tournaments with 6 or more multi-game days
  • 0.6 - World Blitz Championship, Continental Rapid Championships, and other eligible rapid tournaments
  • 0.5 - Mixed Rapid & Blitz tournaments
  • 0.4 - Continental Blitz Championships and other eligible blitz tournaments

If multiple weighting coefficients apply, these are multiplied together.

Basic points

Basic points for a tournament are awarded depending on the tournament format:

• Swiss-system: Top 8 (within top half of ranking), ties included.
• Double round-robins 6-7 players: Top 2 with ties.
• Round-robins 8-10 players: Top 3 with ties.
• Round-robins 11-13 players: Top 4 with ties.
• Round-robins 14 players: Top 5 with ties.
• Knockout: Third round or later, up to 8 players.

Points are awarded as follows:

• 11 points for an outright winner with no tie-break criteria applied (in Knockout tournaments, victory in the Final after only the games with the longest time control have been played). Otherwise, 10 basic points will be used for calculation.
• For tied positions, basic points are calculated as 50% of points for final ranking as determined by tournament's tie-break rules, plus 50% of the sum of basic points assigned for the tied places divided by the number of tied players. If no tie-break rule is applied, basic points are shared equally among all tied players.

Candidates Tournament Points

For the Candidates Tournament 2026, Top five with ties will earn the points.

World Championship 2026

For the World Championship 2026, runner-up will receive points in the Circuit equal to the basic points for 2nd place multiplied by the k-factor and multiplied by 1.5. The TPR for this event will calculated as the player's performance rating.

Total World Championship Tour

For Total Chess World Championship Tour, Top 5 finishers in each stage, including the Pilot tournament will be given points in the Circuit by the k-factor and multiplied by 0.8 . Also each stage of the tour is deemed as a Standard Tournament.

Player's total and ranking

A player's point total for the ranking is the sum of their best 12 tournaments with the following criteria:

• If player has 11 or 12 tournaments to count:
  • No more than 7 or 8 respectively standard tournaments with the participation of less than 50 players can be counted.
  • No more than 4 rapid/blitz tournaments can be counted.
• If player has 10 tournaments or less:
  • No more than 6 standard tournaments with participation of less than 50 players can be counted.
  • No more than 3 rapid/blitz tournament can be counted.

Tournaments that could be included in player's results are as follows:

• Official FIDE tournaments.
• National Championships.
• Other eligible tournaments, counting all tournaments with minimum TAR of 2650 and up to two lower tournaments per host country with TAR below 2650.

2026–2027 FIDE Circuit Standings

At the end of 2027, the top two finishers in the Circuit will qualify for the Candidates Tournament 2028,^[7] provided that they play in at least 8 tournaments (including at least 5 in standard time controls) and play at least 4 standard tournaments with participations of more than 50 players (if they played in 11 or 12 tournaments) or at least 3 standard tournament with participations of more than 50 players (if they played in 10 tournaments).^[2]

Tournament results which can't be counted for qualification for the Candidates Tournament 2028 are marked in   pink.

"(M)" denotes the Masters section of tournaments while "(Ch)" denotes the Challengers section.

•  : Current leaders – set to qualify for Candidates Tournament 2028 (Next top leader if the current top player has already qualified through another route)
•  : Current World Champion – ineligible for Candidates Tournament 2028 qualification
•  : Player qualified for Candidates Tournament 2028 via another path
•  : Player ineligible for Candidates Tournament 2028 qualification

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Top 50 Standings as of 31 August 2026

No.	Player	Points	Events	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
1	Javokhir Sindarov	93.89	8	Tata Steel (M) 2nd – 18.75	Candidates 1st – 27.42	GCT Poland T 7th-9th – 0.00	GCT Romania T 3rd-4th – 8.53	Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid 1st – 11.30	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz 1st – 9.28	GCT St. Louis 2nd – 9.94	Sinquefield Cup T 3rd-4th – 8.67	Optional
2	Wesley So	75.35	7	GCT Poland 3rd – 8.25	GCT Romania T 3rd-4th – 8.53	Norway Chess 2nd – 18.92	Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid T 7th-15th – 0.66	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz 2nd – 6.75	GCT St. Louis 3rd – 8.70	Sinquefield Cup 1st – 23.54	Required	Optional
3	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	65.64	6	Tata Steel (M) 1st – 25.78	Prague (M) 1st – 23.14	TePe Sigeman T 3rd-4th – 7.25	UzChess Cup (M) 6th – 0.00	GCT Croatia 2nd – 9.47	Chennai Grand Masters T 4th-6th – 0.00	Required		Optional
4	R Praggnanandhaa	64.65	7	Tata Steel (M) T 12th-13th – 0.00	Candidates 7th – 0.00	GCT Romania T 5th-9th – 0.00	Norway Chess 1st – 26.02	GCT Croatia T 3rd-4th – 3.90	GCT St. Louis 1st - 13.67	Sinquefield Cup 2nd – 21.06	Required	Optional
5	Fabiano Caruana	54.58	8	St. Louis Masters 2nd – 8.20	Candidates 3rd – 17.45	GCT Poland 2nd – 9.43	GCT Romania 2nd – 19.50	Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid T 17th-26th – 0.00	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz T 20th-30th – 0.00	GCT St. Louis T 5th-7th – 0.00	Sinquefield Cup T 5th-8th – 0.00	Optional
6	Vincent Keymer	49.55	7	Tata Steel (M) T 3rd-5th – 14.06	Prague (M) T 7th-8th – 0.00	GCT Romania 1st – 26.82	Norway Chess 5th – 0.00	GCT Croatia 5th – 0.00	GCT St. Louis 9th – 0.00	Sinquefield Cup T 3rd-4th – 8.67	Required	Optional
7	Haik M. Martirosyan	39.39	6	Aeroflot Open 4th – 5.14	Tashkent Open 1st – 8.19	European Individual Championship T 9th-23rd – 0.53	Sardinia 2nd – 10.34	Dole Open 2nd – 12.53	Rubinstein Memorial T 3rd-4th – 2.66	Required		Optional
8	Arjun Erigaisi	36.34	4	Tata Steel (M) T 12th-13th – 0.00	TePe Sigeman 2nd – 17.61	UzChess Cup (M) T 4th-5th – 2.31	Chennai Grand Masters 3rd – 16.42	Required				Optional
9	Alireza Firouzja	35.50	4	GCT Poland 5th – 0.00	GCT Romania 10th – 0.00	Norway Chess 3rd – 0.00	GCT Croatia 1st – 10.58	Chennai Grand Masters 1st – 24.92	Required				Optional
10	Ian Nepomniachtchi	32.48	4	Aeroflot Open 1st – 13.57	Sardinia 3rd – 9.65	UzChess Cup (M) 3rd – 9.26	Dole Open T 21st-43rd – 0.00	Required				Optional
11	Andrew Hong	30.03	8	St. Louis Masters T 4th-8th – 4.10	Grenke Open 4th – 3.39	Menorca Open 64th – 0.00	Aktobe Open 1st – 12.56	Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid T 3rd-6th – 6.54	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz T 14th-19th – 0.00	Dole Open T 9th-20th – 0.00	Dortmund T 84th-93rd – 0.00	Kanizsa Open 5th – 3.44	Optional
12	Hans Niemann	27.02	5	Tata Steel (M) T 3rd-5th – 14.06	Prague (M) T 7th-8th – 0.00	GCT Poland 1st – 12.96	UzChess Cup (M) T 7th-8th – 0.00	Chennai Grand Masters 7th – 0.00	Required			Optional
13	Jorden van Foreest	24.58	7	Tata Steel (M) T 3rd-5th – 14.06	Prague (M) T 2nd-4th – 10.52	TePe Sigeman 5th – 0.00	GCT Romania T 5th-9th – 0.00	GCT Croatia 9th – 0.00	GCT St. Louis T 5th-7th – 0.00	Sinquefield Cup 10th – 0.00	Required	Optional
14	Mukhiddin Madaminov	22.23	4	Al-Beruniy Masters T 8th-9th – 0.00	UzChess Cup (M) 1st – 18.85	Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid T 54th-72nd – 0.00	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz 6th – 3.38	Required				Optional
15	Abhimanyu Mishra	22.17	4	St. Louis Masters T 9th-18th – 0.00	Alicante 2nd – 5.19	Menorca Open 1st – 8.02	Chess Slovak Open T 1st-2nd – 8.96	Required				Optional
16	Nihal Sarin	21.76	3	Menorca Masters 1st – 13.51	Stepan Avagyan Memorial 3rd – 8.25	Chennai Grand Masters T 4th-6th – 0.00	Required					Optional
17	Aravindh Chithambaram	20.63	5	Tata Steel (M) T 12th-13th – 0.00	Prague (M) T 2nd-4th – 10.52	Stepan Avagyan Memorial T 9th-10th – 0.00	Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid 2nd – 10.11	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz T 14th-19th – 0.00	Required			Optional
18	Anish Giri	19.94	6	Tata Steel (M) T 8th-10th – 0.00	Candidates 2nd – 19.94	GCT Romania T 5th-9th – 0.00	GCT Croatia 7th – 0.00	GCT St. Louis 8th – 0.00	Sinquefield Cup 9th – 0.00	Required		Optional
19	Magnus Carlsen	19.68	2	TePe Sigeman 1st – 19.68	Norway Chess 4th – 0.00	Required						Optional
20	Mahammad Muradli	19.61	3	Aeroflot Open T 9th-16th – 1.44	European Individual Championship 4th – 9.37	UzChess Cup (Ch) 1st – 8.80	Required					Optional
21	Andy Woodward	19.06	5	Tata Steel (Ch) 1st – 7.46	St. Louis Masters T 9th-18th – 0.00	TePe Sigeman 6th – 0.00	Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid T 3rd-6th – 6.54	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz 4th – 5.06	Required			Optional
22	Aram Hakobyan	18.86	4	Al-Beruniy Masters 1st – 11.22	Aeroflot Open T 9th-16th – 1.44	Karpov International 3rd – 6.20	Stepan Avagyan Memorial T 5th-6th – 0.00	Required				Optional
23	Dmitry Andreikin	17.55	1	Chennai Grand Masters 2nd – 17.55	Required							Optional
24	Amin Tabatabaei	17.06	2	Reykjavik Open 1st – 10.79	Dole Open 6th – 6.27	Required						Optional
25	Samuel Sevian	17.03	4	Stepan Avagyan Memorial 1st – 14.92	Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid T 17th-26th – 0.00	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz T 7th-8th – 2.11	Sinquefield Cup T 5th-8th – 0.00	Required				Optional
26	Shamsiddin Vokhidov	16.86	3	Al-Beruniy Masters T 6th-7th – 0.00	Karpov International T 4th-7th – 0.00	UzChess Cup (M) 2nd – 16.86	Required					Optional
27	Hikaru Nakamura	16.68	2	Candidates 5th – 12.46	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz 5th – 4.22	Required						Optional
28	Daniil Dubov	15.96	4	Aeroflot Open T 23rd-46th – 0.00	Baku Open 5th – 2.88	Aktobe Open 3rd – 7.71	Abu Dhabi Masters 2nd – 5.37	Required				Optional
29	Ruslan Ponomariov	15.93	4	Menorca Masters 2nd – 7.37	Baku Open 8th – 2.02	Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid T 3rd-6th – 6.54	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz T 14th-19th – 0.00	Required				Optional
30	Roman Dehtiarov	15.85	1	European Individual Championship 1st – 15.85	Required							Optional
31	Vasyl Ivanchuk	15.63	6	Tata Steel (Ch) 2nd – 5.43	Reykjavik Open 3rd – 5.33	Alicante 3rd – 4.87	European Individual Championship T 24th-50th – 0.00	Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid T 27th-39th – 0.00	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz T 14th-19th – 0.00	Required		Optional
32	Awonder Liang	15.60	3	Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid T 17th-26th – 0.00	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz T 20th-30th – 0.00	Rubinstein Memorial 1st – 15.60	Required					Optional
33	Leon Luke Mendonca	15.59	4	Menorca Open 2nd – 7.11	Sardinia T 48th-66th – 0.00	Dole Open 3rd – 8.48	Chess Slovak Open 5th – 0.00	Required				Optional
34	Aydin Suleymanli	15.50	4	Tata Steel (Ch) 3rd – 4.75	European Individual Championship 3rd – 10.09	Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid T 7th-15th – 0.66	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz T 20th-30th – 0.00	Required				Optional
35	Aditya Mittal	15.36	5	Sardinia T 16th-25th – 0.00	Asian Individual Championship T 9th-24th – 0.00	UzChess Cup (Ch) 2nd – 6.40	Oskemen Open T 11th-23rd – 0.00	Chess Slovak Open T 1st-2nd – 8.96	Required			Optional
36	Frederik Svane	15.16	1	Sardinia 1st – 15.16	Required							Optional
37	Wei Yi	14.96	1	Candidates 4th – 14.96	Required							Optional
38	Robert Hovhannisyan	14.53	2	European Individual Championship T 9th-23rd – 0.53	Dole Open 1st – 14.00	Required						Optional
39	Andrey Esipenko	14.44	4	Aeroflot Open T 9th-16th – 1.44	Candidates 8th – 0.00	Aktobe Open 7th – 2.35	Oskemen Open 1st – 10.65	Required				Optional
40	Daniel Dardha	14.11	4	Sardinia T 26th-47th – 0.00	European Individual Championship T 9th-23rd – 0.53	Spilimbergo 1st – 5.65	Chess Slovak Open 3rd – 7.93	Required				Optional
41	Mukhammadzokhid Suyarov	13.61	7	Aeroflot Open 7th – 3.29	Tashkent Open 6th – 3.66	Grenke Open 1st – 6.66	Sardinia T 26th-46th – 0.00	UzChess Cup (Ch) T 4th-6th – 0.00	Dole Open T 21st-43rd – 0.00	Abu Dhabi Masters T 32nd-43rd – 0.00	Required	Optional
42	Vladislav Artemiev	13.35	1	Stepan Avagyan Memorial 2nd – 13.35	Required							Optional
43	David Paravyan	13.16	3	Aeroflot Open 2nd – 6.38	Asian Individual Championship T 25th-38th – 0.00	Aktobe Open 3rd – 6.78	Required					Optional
44	Daniyal Sapenov	12.11	2	Oskemen Open 2nd – 8.28	Abu Dhabi Masters 6th – 3.83	Required						Optional
45	Xiao Tong	11.95	3	Reykjavik Open 7th – 3.36	Menorca Open T 12th-28th – 0.00	Asian Individual Championship 2nd – 8.59	Required					Optional
46	Parham Maghsoodloo	11.48	3	Prague (M) T 2nd-4th – 10.52	Sardinia T 9th-14th – 0.96	Dole Open T 21st-43rd – 0.00	Required					Optional
47	Mikhail Antipov	11.28	1	St. Louis Masters 1st – 11.28	Required							Optional
48	Rudik Makarian	10.95	4	Aeroflot Open 3rd – 5.76	Aktobe Open T 24th-34th – 0.00	Asian Rapid Championship T 9th-11th – 0.59	Abu Dhabi Masters 4th – 4.60	Required				Optional
49	Nijat Abasov	10.81	2	European Individual Championship 2nd – 10.81	Baku Open T 15th-26th – 0.00	Required						Optional
50	Brandon Jacobson	10.55	5	Floripa Open 2026 13th – 0.00	Tashkent Open 6th – 2.80	Bangkok Open 2nd – 3.34	Sardinia 5th – 4.41	UzChess Cup (Ch) T 4th-6th – 0.00	Required			Optional

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2026 FIDE Open Circuit Standings

The top three finishers in the Open Circuit as of September 1, 2026 will qualify for the Pilot tournament of Total Chess World Championship Tour, and the top two finishers as of January 1, 2027 will qualify for first leg of the full tour.^[8]

•  : Current leaders – set to qualify for Pilot tournament (Next top leader(s) if any current top player(s) has/have already qualified through other route(s).)
•  : Player(s) qualified for Pilot tournament via another path.

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Top 20 Standings (including ties) as of 25 August 2026

No.	Player	Points	Events	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
1	Haik M. Martirosyan	36.73	5	Aeroflot Open 4th – 5.14	Tashkent Open 1st – 8.19	European Individual Championship T 9th-23rd – 0.53	Sardinia 2nd – 10.34	Dole Open 2nd – 12.53
2	Andrew Hong	30.03	8	St. Louis Masters T 4th-8th – 4.10	Grenke Open 4th – 3.39	Menorca Open 64th – 0.00	Aktobe Open 1st – 12.56	Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid T 3rd-6th – 6.54	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz T 14th-19th – 0.00	Dole Open T 9th-20th – 0.00	Kanizsa Open 5th – 3.44
3	Ian Nepomniachtchi	23.22	3	Aeroflot Open 1st – 13.57	Sardinia 3rd – 9.65	Dole Open T 21st-43rd – 0.00
4	Javokhir Sindarov	20.58	2	Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid 1st – 11.30	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz 1st – 9.28
5	Amin Tabatabaei	17.06	2	Reykjavik Open 1st – 10.79	Dole Open 6th – 6.27
6	Daniil Dubov	15.96	4	Aeroflot Open T 23rd-46th – 0.00	Baku Open 5th – 2.88	Aktobe Open 3rd – 7.71	Abu Dhabi Masters 2nd – 5.37
7	Roman Dehtiarov	15.85	1	European Individual Championship 1st – 15.85
8	Leon Luke Mendonca	15.59	3	Menorca Open 2nd – 7.11	Sardinia T 48th-66th – 0.00	Dole Open 3rd – 8.48
9	Frederik Svane	15.16	1	Sardinia 1st – 15.16
10	Robert Hovhannisyan	14.53	2	European Individual Championship T 9th-23rd – 0.53	Dole Open 1st – 14.00
11	Andrey Esipenko	14.44	3	Aeroflot Open T 9th-16th – 1.44	Aktobe Open 7th – 2.35	Oskemen Open 1st – 10.65
12	Mukhammadzokhid Suyarov	13.61	6	Aeroflot Open 7th – 3.29	Tashkent Open 6th – 3.66	Grenke Open 1st – 6.66	Sardinia T 26th-46th – 0.00	Dole Open T 21st-43rd – 0.00	Abu Dhabi Masters T 32nd-43rd – 0.00
13	Abhimanyu Mishra	13.21	3	St. Louis Masters T 9th-18th – 0.00	Alicante 2nd – 5.19	Menorca Open 1st – 8.02
14	David Paravyan	13.16	3	Aeroflot Open 2nd – 6.38	Asian Individual Championship T 25th-38th – 0.00	Oskemen Open 3rd – 6.78
15	Daniyal Sapenov	12.11	2	Oskemen Open 2nd – 8.28	Abu Dhabi Masters 6th – 3.83
16	Xiao Tong	11.95	3	Reykjavik Open 7th – 3.36	Menorca Open T 12th-28th – 0.00	Asian Individual Championship 2nd – 8.59
17	Andy Woodward	11.60	3	St. Louis Masters T 9th-18th – 0.00	Naroditsky Memorial – Rapid T 3rd-6th – 6.54	Naroditsky Memorial – Blitz 4th – 5.06
18	Mikhail Antipov	11.28	1	St. Louis Masters 1st – 11.28
19	Rudik Makarian	10.95	4	Aeroflot Open 3rd – 5.76	Aktobe Open T 24th-34th – 0.00	Asian Rapid Championship T 9th-11th – 0.59	Abu Dhabi Masters 4th – 4.60
20-21	Mahammad Muradli	10.81	2	Aeroflot Open T 9th-16th – 1.44	European Individual Championship 4th – 9.37
	Nijat Abasov	10.81	2	European Individual Championship 2nd – 10.81	Baku Open T 15th-26th – 0.00

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