Total Chess World Championship Tour
The Total Chess World Championship Tour, organized by Norway Chess and approved by FIDE, is an annual series of chess tournaments among top players combining the most popular time controls – fast classical, rapid, and blitz. It is foreseen that each year three tournaments will be played and the players with the best combined score will qualify for the Grand Final to determine the FIDE World Combined Champion.
The first event, the Total Chess [World Championship 2026], will be a pilot event played in a single leg while the tour, in true sense, will start from 2027.