13 November 2024

The Next Cycle

In the previous post, 2024 Ding Liren - Gukesh, Warmup (November 2024), I emerged from a state of suspended animation and brought the blog up-to-date for the current cycle:-
In the nearly six months since my previous post on this blog, Toronto Candidates - Wrapup (June 2024), world class chess has moved from the end of a Candidates tournament to the start of a World Championship match.

For this post I updated my two main index pages. Both pages are now showing a second cycle with links to Wikipedia instead of to my own material:-

A big difference between the two cycles is that the World Championship allocates two Candidate spots to the FIDE Circuit - one for the year 2024 and one for the year 2025. The Women's Championship allocates two spots to the 2024-25 Women's Grand Prix.

Another difference is that the World Championship allocates one spot for highest rating. The Women's Championship allocates one spot to 'FIDE Women’s Events 2025-26' (NB: events from 2024-25), which uses a point system to combine results from eight top women's tournaments.

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