FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025
The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 was a chess tournament organized by FIDE, the international governing body of chess, in September 2025. It was an 11-round Swiss-system tournament that formed part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2026. Anish Giri won the tournament, and thus, along with the runner-up Matthias Blübaum, qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2026.
The Grand Swiss was open to both genders. The FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 was held in parallel for women only.
Format
The tournament had an 11-round Swiss format featuring 116 players.The games used a classical time control of 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30 second increment from move 1.
The total prize pool of the tournament was $625,000 USD, with the winner earning $90,000 and second $75,000.
Tie-breaks
Tie-breaks between players who finished on the same score were determined, in order, by the following criteria:- Average Rating of Opponents Cut 1
- Buchholz Cut 1
- Buchholz
- Direct encounter between the tied players
- Drawing of lots.
Venue and schedule
The tournament took place from 3–15 September 2025 at the Silk Road EXPO in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.Results
Notation: "1 " indicates a win with black pieces against the player who finished 51st. The first tiebreak is the average rating of opponents "cut 1". The second tiebreak is the Buchholz "cut 1".| Rank | Name | Rating | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Total | AROC-1 | BC-1 |
| 1 | Anish Girinowrap|1 nowrap|0.5 nowrap|0.5 nowrap|0.5 nowrap|1 nowrap|1 nowrap|0.5 nowrap|0.5 nowrap|1 nowrap|0.5 nowrap|1 nowrap| |