Overview of Four Cycles

FIDE's announcement for the forthcoming World Championship events, FIDE Announces Draft Dates for World Chess Championship Cycles (Fide.com), would have been more exciting if we hadn't seen it all before. The plan was nearly identical to the one announced in June 2007, last discussed on this blog in The New/Old World Championship Cycle.

Here's an overview of the schedule announced by FIDE, mapped onto the cycle numbering I use for my index page on the World Chess Championship. I sincerely hope that FIDE, with its new sponsor, will have more success following through the 2012 plan than it did in 2007.

2011			C24	C25	C26	C27
CT	Kazan	2011-05	CM
WC	Russia	2011-08		WC
2012			C24	C25	C26	C27
Chp	Moscow	2012-05	A/G
OL	Istanbul	2012-08
GP	Chelyabinsk	2012-09			*
CT	London	2012-10		*
GP	Tashkent	2012-11			*
2013			C24	C25	C26	C27
GP	Lisbon	2013-04			*
GP	Madrid	2013-05			*
GP	Berlin	2013-07			*
WC	Norway	2013-08			*
GP	Paris	2013-09			*
Chp	TBD	2013-10		*
2014			C24	C25	C26	C27
GP	TBD	2014-05				*
GP	TBD	2014-07				*
OL	Norway	2014-08
GP	TBD	2014-09				*
CT	TBD	2014-11			*
2015			C24	C25	C26	C27
GP	TBD	2015-05				*
GP	TBD	2015-07				*
WC	TBD	2015-08				*
GP	TBD	2015-09				*
Chp	TBD	2015-11			*

Chp: World Championship
CT: Candidates
WC: World Cup
GP: Grand Prix
OL: Olympiad

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Later: See also Two Big Events for 2012 for subsequent changes to several of these events.