Chess World Cup

The World Chess Cup ( officially: FIDE World Cup or World Chess Cup) is an organized by the World Chess Federation FIDE competition of the world's best chess players. Since 2005 he is part of the qualification for the World Chess Championship.

Mode

Since 2005, the World Chess Cup is conducted every two years and is part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship. It is designed as a tournament knock-out system over 7 rounds - so as a rule with 128 participants. The players play two games against each other; in the case of a tie, followed by a tie-break with a shorter time limit. The finale is over four games, also with a possible tiebreaker.

History

An event similar name, it was the first time as " Chess World Cup 1988/89 " ( officially Chess world Cup ). This was a series of six tournaments, organized by the Grand Master Association ( GMA), which was in competition with FIDE. The second World Cup began in 1991, but was canceled after only one tournament ( in Reykjavik ). This type of tournament was added in 2008 by the FIDE and continued as " FIDE Grand Prix".

The first two " World Chess Cup " tournaments FIDE took place in 2000 and 2002 and were round robin tournaments. At this time the FIDE organized its controversial FIDE World Chess Championship in competition with the "classical" World Chess Championship in the Professional Chess Association (PCA). The FIDE World Chess Championship from 1997/98, 1999, 2000, 2001/ 02 and 2004 were thereby carried out in the mode of today's world Cup. The World Chess Cup itself had no relation to the World Cup.

Tournaments

• Chess tournament