- Official site and logo
- FIDE news items about the event
The rest can be found on Wikipedia via my main index pages:-
- World Chess Championship (m-w.com)
- World Chess Championship for Women (ditto)
The 2023 logo is shown here:-
2023 official site:
FIDE Grand Swiss 2023
(fide.com)
Compare that with the 2021 logo for the previous event:-
2021 official site:
The design on the left changed, although the two designs were inspired by the same motif. The text on the right has dropped the mention of 'Chess.com' as a sponsor. I looked for an explanation of that change, but found nothing. I suppose it was a high-level business decision by one or more of the parties. I copied the following infographic from the 2023-11-05 news item in the list below and added the corresponding web domains.
fide.com
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iomchess.com
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visitiom.co.uk
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As for the Scheinberg family, see the FIDE news item dated 2022-04-19 in the following list. From FIDE.com:-
- 2022-03-18: Isle of Man to host FIDE Grand Swiss and Women’s Grand Swiss 2023
- 2022-04-19: FIDE announces long-term cooperation with the Scheinberg family
- 2023-01-07: FIDE reforms qualifications paths to Candidates Tournament
- 2023-03-20: FIDE Grand Swiss and WGS offer record prize funds
- 2023-06-14: Qualified players for FIDE Grand Swiss and Women’s Grand Swiss
- 2023-07-25: Grand Swiss and Women's Grand Swiss 2023: preliminary lineups and World Cup passes • World Cup passes?: 'It's important to note that the lineups are not yet final. More spots will be filled with wild cards and additional qualifications from the World Cup, set to begin on July 29 in Azerbaijan.'
- 2023-09-29: The Isle of Man’s Grand Chess Spectacle
- 2023-10-22: 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss brings grand expectations
- 2023-10-24: FIDE Grand Swiss and FIDE Women's Grand Swiss 2023 kick off in the Isle of Man
- 2023-10-31: FIDE approves new regulations for Affiliated Members • 'This development received a warm reception from the Isle of Man, currently hosting the Grand Swiss tournament, which applied to be a member federation of FIDE over 20 years ago, but the application was declined.'
- 2023-11-05: Indian Triumph - Vidit and Vaishali win FIDE Grand Swiss
That last news item doesn't mention who qualified for the 2024 Candidates tournament. Other sources tell us that Vidit Santosh Gujrathi and Hikaru Nakamura qualified from the 2023 Grand Swiss, and that Vaishali Rameshbabu and Tan Zhongyi qualified from the 2023 Women's Grand Swiss For the two index pages mentioned at the top of this post, I added links to Wikipedia pages for the two 2024 Candidates tournaments.
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