World Chess Championship 2023

The World Chess Championship 2023 will be a chess match for the World Chess Championship, to be played in early 2023.[1]

Defending champion Challenger
Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen TBD
Born 30 November 1990
31 years old 		TBD
Winner of the World Chess Championship 2021 Winner of the Candidates Tournament 2022
Rating: TBD Rating: TBD
← 2021 2024 →

The match is scheduled to be between the current World Champion, Magnus Carlsen, and the winner of the 2022 Candidates Tournament.[2] However a few days after the previous championship in 2021, Carlsen said he may not be motivated enough to play another world championship match, and might not compete in the 2023 edition unless the challenger is Alireza Firouzja, who rose to number two in the world rankings in 2021.[3] In April 2022 he went further, saying he was unlikely to play, making no mention of Firouzja.[4]

If Carlsen decides not to play, and if the match has the same conditions as the 2021 match, then the top two finishers in the 2022 Candidates will play a match for the World Championship.[5][3]

Candidates Tournament
Main article: Candidates Tournament 2022

The challenger will qualify by winning the Candidates Tournament 2022, which will be an eight-player tournament, and will take place from June 16 to July 7, 2022.[6] Seven of the eight qualifiers are currently determined:

Qualification method[2] Player
2021 World Championship runner-up Ian Nepomniachtchi[lower-alpha 1]
Candidate nominated by FIDE Teimour Radjabov[lower-alpha 2]
The top two finishers at the Chess World Cup 2021 Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Sergey Karjakin[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 3]
The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 Alireza Firouzja
Fabiano Caruana
The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Prix 2022 Hikaru Nakamura
Richárd Rapport
Highest rated player as of May 2022 Ding Liren (replacement for Karjakin)

Notes
  1. Russian players' flags are displayed as the FIDE flag due to FIDE's decision to ban Russian and Belarusian flags from being displayed at FIDE-rated events in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
  2. Radjabov had qualified for the previous Candidates Tournament, but withdrew after his request to postpone the tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic was refused. With the postponement of the 2020 Candidates Tournament at the halfway point due to the pandemic until its resumption in 2021, Radjabov called for his reinstatement into the tournament. FIDE decided that it was appropriate to instead give Radjabov a direct entry into the 2022 Candidates.
  3. Sergey Karjakin was disqualified by the FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Commission for a period of six months due to breaching Article 2.2.10 of the FIDE Code of Ethics, after publicly expressing support for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Appeal is pending.

References
  1. Матч на первенство мира по шахматам ФИДЕ 2021. 10 партия., FIDE YouTube channel, December 8 2021
  2. FIDE announces qualification paths for Candidates Tournament 2022, FIDE, 25 May 2021
  3. BREAKING: Carlsen Might Only Defend Title Vs. Firouzja, Peter Doggers, chess.com, December 21, 2021
  4. Chess: Magnus Carlsen ‘unlikely’ to defend crown, but questions remain, Leonard Barden, The Guardian, 22 April, 2022
  5. Regulations for the FIDE World Championship Match 2020, FIDE, 2020, archived from https://handbook.fide.com/files/handbook/FWCM2020.pdf
  6. "Candidates Tournament To Take Place June 2022 In Madrid Sponsored By Chess.com". chess.com. December 28, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
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