FIDE Circuit

The FIDE Circuit is a series of top individual chess tournaments managed and regulated by FIDE (the International Chess Federation).

History

Introduced in 2023, the circuit awards points to players based on their performances in eligible tournaments, with the top player qualifying for the Candidates Tournament. The annual circuit was converted to last a biennium with FIDE Circuit 2026-2027. The system was designed to provide an additional qualification path to the Candidates Tournament, complementing other routes such as the Chess World Cup and Grand Swiss Tournament.

Since 2024, FIDE announced a similar path for qualification in Women's Candidates Tournament, starting FIDE Women's Events 2024-2025, though it only included 8 FIDE organized events. It was replaced by a separate circuit for major women only chess tournaments, namely FIDE Women's Circuit 2026-2027.

Winners

Winners of FIDE Circuit
Year	Points	Winner
2023	130.42	Fabiano Caruana
2024	118.61	Fabiano Caruana
2025	115.17	R Praggnanandhaa
2026–2027	TBA

Winners of FIDE Women's Circuit (or Events)
Year	Points	Winner	Ref
2024-2025 Events	280.00	Koneru Humpy
2026-2027	TBA

Detailed Results

The following results refer to the top 10 eligible point scorers in FIDE Circuits of the respective years

FIDE Circuits

2023

: Winner (Qualifier to Candidates Tournament 2024)
: Candidates Qualifier (qualified for Candidates Tournament 2024 via another path)


Rank	Player	Points	Events
Rank	Player	Points	1	2	3	4	5
1	Fabiano Caruana	118.61	GCT Romania 1st – 26.84	Stavanger (Main) 2nd – 21.75	World Cup 3rd – 21.41	US Championship 1st – 22.68	St Louis 1st – 25.93
2	Gukesh Dommaraju	87.36	Düsseldorf T 2nd-3rd – 19.26	Sharjah 3rd – 13.13	Stavanger (Main) 3rd – 19.03	World Cup QF – 15.86	Chennai 1st – 20.08
3	Anish Giri	84.31	Tata Steel (M) 1st – 27.00	GCT Romania T 2nd-5th – 17.44	Stavanger (Main) 4th – 16.31	Dutch Championship 1st – 13.09	Grand Swiss 7th – 10.47
4	Wesley So	83.40	Tata Steel (M) 4th – 16.20	Düsseldorf 4th – 14.60	GCT Romania T 2nd-5th – 17.44	US Championship 2nd – 17.01	St Louis 3rd – 18.15
5	Arjun Erigaisi	81.24	Sharjah 1st – 21.89	World Cup QF – 15.86	Doha T 3rd-8th – 11.13	Grand Swiss 4th – 14.39	Chennai 2nd – 17.97
6	Amin Tabatabaei	56.14	Tata Steel (Ch) 4th – 8.00	Jermuk 3rd – 10.55	Sharjah 7th – 8.76	Budapest 2nd – 14.86	London 2nd – 13.97
7	R Praggnanandhaa	54.79	Düsseldorf T 5th-10th – 2.03	Budapest 1st – 19.18	World Cup 2nd – 24.18	Tata Steel India (Rapid) 3rd – 8.96	Grand Swiss 13th – 0.44 (T 8th-13th)
8	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	54.63	Tata Steel (M) T 2nd-3rd – 20.25	Düsseldorf T 5th-10th – 2.03	Stavanger (Blitz) 1st – 10.88	Doha 2nd – 21.03	Grand Swiss 12th – 0.44 (T 8th-13th)
9	Hans Niemann	46.85	Menorca 6th – 6.82	Sharjah 6th – 9.85	Uralsk 1st – 9.66	US Championship 6th – 7.94	Zagreb 1st – 12.58
10	Javokhir Sindarov	46.25	Tata Steel (Ch) 3rd – 9.33	Dubai 2nd – 14.29	Hangzhou 3rd – 8.45	Doha T 3rd-8th – 11.13	Grand Swiss 8th – 3.05

2024


Rank	Player	Points	Events
Rank	Player	Points	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1	Fabiano Caruana	130.42	Candidates 4th – 15.92	GCT Romania 1st – 21.23	GCT Croatia 1st – 13.92	Sinquefield Cup 2nd – 20.85	US Championship 1st – 25.00	US Masters 1st – 17.11	St. Louis Masters T 1st-2nd – 16.39
2	Arjun Erigaisi	124.40	Shenzhen 3rd – 15.18	Menorca 1st – 16.19	Malmö 2nd – 14.00 (T 2nd-3rd)	Avagyan Memorial 1st – 19.79	WR Masters 1st – 25.40	Chennai 3rd – 17.22	Doha 2nd – 16.62
3	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	108.49	Tata Steel (M) 3rd – 14.22 (T 2nd-4th)	Prague (M) 1st – 25.00	Malmö 1st – 16.21	Tashkent (M) 2nd – 19.28	Sinquefield Cup T 3rd-4th – 9.12	President Cup 5th – 9.11	Doha 3rd – 15.55
4	Alireza Firouzja	89.07	Candidates 7th – 7.35	GCT Romania T 2nd-4th – 14.70	GCT Croatia T 2nd-4th – 6.33	GCT St. Louis 1st – 14.60	Sinquefield Cup 1st – 28.67	WR Masters T 3rd-4th – 16.51	World Rapid 7th – 7.24
5	Gukesh Dommaraju	84.13	Tata Steel (M) 2nd – 14.22 (T 2nd-4th)	Prague (M) 7th – 0.00	Candidates 1st – 26.94	GCT Romania T 2nd-4th – 14.70	GCT Croatia 7th – 0.00	Sinquefield Cup T 5th-7th – 0.00	World Champion 1st – 28.27
6	R Praggnanandhaa	66.76	Prague (M) 4th – 11.36 (T 2nd-4th)	Candidates 5th – 12.24	GCT Poland 4th – 0.00	GCT Romania T 2nd-4th – 14.70	WR Masters T 3rd-4th – 16.51	Kolkata Rapid 2nd – 11.95	Kolkata Blitz 4th – 0.00
7	Volodar Murzin	63.50	Menorca 17th – 0.13 (T 8th-21st)	Sardinia 3rd – 11.69	Sharjah 2nd – 17.37	Abu Dhabi 7th – 3.15	Singapore 22nd – 0.00	World Rapid 1st – 25.16	World Blitz T 5th-8th – 6.00
8	Nodirbek Yakubboev	57.40	Moscow 3rd – 12.14	Dubai Police 51st – 0.00	Aktobe 12th – 0.41 (T 7th-17th)	Tashkent (M) 1st – 21.55	Abu Dhabi 1st – 14.77	President Cup 6th – 8.15	Doha 18th – 0.38 (T 7th-20th)
9	Amin Tabatabaei	56.39	Moscow 1st – 19.79	Dubai Police 6th – 7.64	Sharjah 5th – 7.45	Avagyan Memorial 3rd – 10.79	Abu Dhabi 5th – 10.34	President Cup 26th – 0.00	Doha 14th – 0.38 (T 7th-20th)
10	Shamsiddin Vokhidov	53.56	Moscow 34th – 0.00	Sharjah 4th – 15.17	Tashkent (Ch) 1st – 13.82	Abu Dhabi 3rd – 12.11	President Cup 4th – 12.46	Doha 23rd – 0.00	World Blitz 36th – 0.00

2025

: Winner (Qualifier to Candidates Tournament 2026
: Player qualified for Candidates Tournament 2026 via another path
: Player ineligible for Candidates Tournament 2026 qualification


Rank	Player	Points	No. of Events	Events
Rank	Player	Points	No. of Events	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	R Praggnanandhaa	115.17	7	Tata Steel (M) 1st – 25.00	GCT Romania Classic 1st – 23.90	Avagyan Memorial 2nd – 15.19	UzChess (M) 1st – 22.19	Sinquefield Cup T 2nd-3rd – 20.72	World Cup R4 – 0.00	London (Open) T 1st-3rd – 8.17	Optional
2	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	84.95	7	Tata Steel (M) 3rd – 18.42	Sharjah 3rd – 13.80	UzChess (M) 3rd – 18.56	Grand Swiss 10th – 1.21	World Cup R3 – 0.00	London 1st – 19.62	World Blitz 2nd – 13.34	Optional
3	Anish Giri	82.43	6	Tata Steel (M) T 5th-6th – 6.58	Prague (M) T 2nd-4th – 11.06	Sharjah 1st – 20.94	GCT Croatia R&B 7th – 0.00	Chennai 2nd – 14.19	Grand Swiss 1st – 28.41	World Rapid T 9th-13th – 1.25	Optional
4	Fabiano Caruana	76.39	4	Tata Steel (M) 9th – 0.00	GCT Romania Classic 4th – 0.00	Stavanger 2nd – 20.93	GCT Croatia R&B 8th – 0.00	Sinquefield Cup T 2nd-3rd – 20.72	U.S. Champ 1st – 23.90	World Blitz T 3rd-4th – 10.84	Optional
5	Javokhir Sindarov	68.40	5	Malmö 1st – 16.17	UzChess (M) 2nd – 19.77	Grand Swiss 24th – 0.00	World Cup 1st – 27.88	World Rapid 7th – 4.58	World Blitz 14th – 0.00	Optional
6	Matthias Bluebaum	63.94	6	European Champ 1st – 15.73	German Champ 2nd – 10.93	Dortmund 1st – 6.89	Rubinstein Memorial 3rd – 11.02	Grand Swiss 2nd – 19.37	World Cup R4 – 0.00	Optional
7	Arjun Erigaisi	60.26	5	Tata Steel (M) 10th – 0.00	Stavanger 5th – 0.00	Chennai 3rd – 13.10	Grand Swiss 6th – 6.37	World Cup QF – 14.94	World Rapid 3rd – 15.01	World Blitz T 3rd-4th – 10.84	Optional
8	Nihal Sarin	56.50	8	Tashkent Open 1st – 15.80	Menorca 8th – 1.23	Asian Champ 2nd – 12.96	Dubai Open 6th – 3.49	Fujairah T 9th-12th – 1.40	Grand Swiss 9th – 1.21	President Cup 1st – 15.57	Optional
9	Vincent Keymer	55.83	4	Tata Steel (M) 8th – 0.00	Prague (M) 5th – 0.00	German Champ 1st – 15.03	Chennai 1st – 24.01	Grand Swiss 4th – 16.79	World Cup R4 – 0.00	World Rapid 50th – 0.00	Required
10	Magnus Carlsen	53.23	2	Stavanger 1st – 28.78	GCT Croatia R&B 1st – 15.18	World Rapid 1st – 24.45	World Blitz 1st – 18.34	Required	Required	Required	Optional