Champions Chess Tour 2024

Champions Chess Tour 2024

Details
Duration	26 January – 21 December 2024
Tournaments	5
Categories	Regular (4) Finals (1)
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titles	Magnus Carlsen (1) Alireza Firouzja (1) Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (1)
Prize money leader	Alireza Firouzja ($70,000)
Points leader	Alireza Firouzja (260)
← 2023

The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2024 is a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2024 by Chess.com. The tour started on 26 January 2024 and will end on 21 December 2024. It involves four online chess tournaments and an over-the-board final round, featuring some of the world's top players who played for a prize money pool of US$1,700,000.

Each Regular tournament are conducted in the following stages:

Stage		Format	Players entering this round	Players advancing from previous round
Qualifiers		Swiss-system 9 rounds	Titled players below Grandmaster	—
Play-In		Swiss-system 9 rounds	Grandmasters Top 3 from Qualifier of past 2024 Regular tournaments	Top 3 from Qualifier
Division Placement	Div. I	Single-elimination 2 rounds R1: 2-games match R2: 4-games match	Bye to Round 2: 3rd-4th from Div. I of previous Regular tournament 2nd from Div. II of previous Regular tournament Winner from Div. III of previous Regular tournament	Bye to Round 2: Winner from Play-In Entering Round 1: 2nd-11th from Play-In
	Div. II	Single-elimination 2 rounds R1: 2-games match R2: 4-games match		Bye to Round 2: 12th-17th from Play-In Entering Round 1: 18th-29th from Play-In
	Div. III	Single match 4-games match		30th-69th from Play-In
Division Play	Div. I	Double-elimination Upper: 4-games match Lower: 2-games match	Top 2 from Div. I of previous Regular tournament Winner from Div. II of previous Regular tournament	5 winners from Div. I Placement
	Div. II	Double-elimination Upper: 4-games match Lower: 2-games match		10 losers from Div. I Placement 6 winners from Div. II Placement
	Div. III	Double-elimination Upper: 4-games match Lower: 2-games match		12 losers from Div. II Placement 20 winners from Div. III Placement

• For Chessable Masters, the first event of 2024 edition, 2023 AI Cup was designated as its previous Regular tournament.

The format for the Finals is yet to be determined.

The total prize pool for a Regular tournament is US$300,000 for each tournament, distributed as follows:^[1]

Finish	Division I	Division II	Division III
1st	100	50	30
2nd	80	40	25
3rd	60	30	20
4th	50	25	15
5th (x2)	40	20	10
7th (x2)	30	15	7
9th (x4)	-	10	5
13th (x4)	-	5	3
17th (x8)	-	-	2
25th (x8)	-	-	1

Finish	Division I	Division II	Division III
1st	$30,000	$15,000	$7,500
2nd	$20,000	$10,000	$6,000
3rd	$15,000	$7,500	$5,000
4th	$12,500	$6,000	$4,000
5th (x2)	$10,000	$5,500	$3,500
7th (x2)	$7,500	$5,000	$3,000
9th (x4)	-	$4,500	$2,600
13th (x4)	-	$4,000	$2,200
17th (x8)	-	-	$1,850
25th (x8)	-	-	$1,500
Placement (x20)	-	-	$500
Total	$112,500	$93,500	$91,500

The Finals will have a $500,000 purse. Structures are yet to be determined.

Champions Chess Tour tournaments

Tournament	Dates	Prize	Division I				Winner of Division II	Winner of Division III
			Winner	Second (or finalist)	Third	Fourth
Chessable Masters[2]	January 31–February 7	$300,000	Magnus Carlsen	Alireza Firouzja	Denis Lazavik	Ian Nepomniachtchi	Vincent Keymer	Alexey Sarana
Chess.com Classic[3]	May 10–16		Alireza Firouzja	Magnus Carlsen	Vincent Keymer	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	Dmitry Andreikin
CrunchLabs Masters[4]	July 17–24		Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	Alireza Firouzja	Ian Nepomniachtchi	Magnus Carlsen	Alexander Grischuk	Arjun Erigaisi
Event 4	September 25–October 2
Final	December 14–21	$500,000

Prize money is shown in US dollars. Bold number denotes a win in that division. L denotes losers of Division III Placement stage.

Legend
	Did not qualify/participate		Division I		Division II		Division III

Pos	Name	Chessable Masters	Chess.com Classic	CrunchLabs Masters	Event 4	Total Points	Prize Money
1	Alireza Firouzja	80	100	80		260	$70,000
2	Magnus Carlsen	100	80	50		230	$62,500
3	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	30	50	100		180	$52,500
4	Ian Nepomniachtchi	50	40	60		150	$37,500
5	Vincent Keymer	50	60			110	$30,000
6	Wesley So	30	40	40		110	$32,500
7	Denis Lazavik	60	40	3		103	$27,200
8	Jan-Krzysztof Duda		50	40		90	$22,500
9	Alexander Grischuk	25		50		75	$21,000
10	Levon Aronian	40	25	10		75	$20,500
11	Vladimir Fedoseev	40		25		65	$13,500
12	Alexey Sarana	30	30			60	$15,000
	Dmitry Andreikin		30	30		60	$15,000
14	Vidit Gujrathi	L	20	40		60	$16,000
15	José Martínez	40	10	L		50	$12,500
16	Fabiano Caruana		10	30		40	$12,000
17	Hikaru Nakamura	10		30		40	$12,000
18	Karthikeyan Murali	5	20	15		40	$12,600
19	Grigoriy Oparin		30	5		35	$11,500
20	Benjamin Bok	30	2	2		34	$11,200
21	Velimir Ivić		30	3		33	$9,700
22	Daniil Dubov	1	20	10		31	$10,500
23	Arjun Erigaisi			30		30	$7,500
24	Anish Giri	20	7			27	$8,500
25	Olexandr Bortnyk	20		7		27	$8,000
26	Vladislav Artemiev	25				25	$6,000
27	Evgeny Alekseev	L		25		25	$6,500
	Nils Grandelius		25			25	$6,000
29	Samuel Sevian	10	15			25	$9,500
30	Lê Tuấn Minh	L	15	10		25	$9,000
31	Jules Moussard		2	20		22	$7,350
32	Yu Yangyi	20				20	$5,500
	Vladimir Kramnik			20		20	$5,500
34	Shant Sargsyan			20		20	$5,000
35	Rauf Mamedov	15	5			20	$7,600
36	Jaime Santos Latasa	5		15		20	$6,600
37	David Antón Guijarro	10	L	10		20	$8,500
38	David Paravyan	10	5	5		20	$8,700
39	Vasif Durarbayli		2	15		17	$6,850
40	Jeffery Xiong	15	L			15	$5,500
	Andrey Esipenko		15	L		15	$5,500
42	Eltaj Safarli	15				15	$4,000
43	Aram Hakobyan	L	10	5		15	$7,600
44	Maxim Matlakov	5		10		15	$7,100
45	Bardiya Daneshvar	10	5			15	$6,100
46	Bogdan-Daniel Deac	3	7	5		15	$9,200
47	Mikhail Antipov	7		5		12	$7,000
48	Samvel Ter-Sahakyan	10	L			10	$5,000
	Dmitrij Kollars		10	L		10	$5,000
	Frederik Svane			10		10	$4,500
51	Ádám Kozák		10			10	$3,500
	Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn		10			10	$3,500
53	Aleksandar Inđić	7				7	$3,000
	Javokhir Sindarov			7		7	$3,000
55	Aleksandr Rakhmanov	2	5			7	$5,850
56	Shamsiddin Vokhidov	5	1	1		7	$7,000
57	Matthias Blübaum	L	5	L		5	$5,000
	Peter Svidler	5	L			5	$4,500
	Alan Pichot		L	5		5	$4,500
	Haik M. Martirosyan	5				5	$4,000
	Aleksandr Shimanov	5				5	$4,000
	Leinier Domínguez		5			5	$4,000
	Jorden van Foreest		5			5	$4,000
64	Amin Tabatabaei	5				5	$2,600
	Andrew Tang		5			5	$2,600
	Georg Meier			5		5	$2,600
	Abhimanyu Puranik			5		5	$2,600
68	Yuriy Kuzubov	3		2		5	$4,050
69	Christopher Yoo	3	L			3	$2,700
	Eduardo Iturrizaga		3	L		3	$2,700
	Sergei Lobanov		3	L		3	$2,700
	Igor Lysyj	3				3	$2,200
	Vugar Rasulov		3			3	$2,200
	Max Warmerdam		3			3	$2,200
	Maciej Klekowski			3		3	$2,200
	Rudik Makarian			3		3	$2,200
77	Rasmus Svane	1	L	2		3	$3,850
	Benjámin Gledura		2	1		3	$3,350
	Alexey Dreev	1		2		3	$3,350
80	Kirill Alekseenko	2	L	L		2	$2,850
	Cristobal Henriquez Villagra	2	L			2	$2,350
	Nikita Meshkovs	2		L		2	$2,350
	Abhimanyu Mishra	2				2	$1,850
	Kacper Piorun	2				2	$1,850
	Ruslan Ponomariov	2				2	$1,850
	Gabriel Sargissian	2				2	$1,850
	Pouya Idani		2			2	$1,850
	Teimour Radjabov		2			2	$1,850
	Raunak Sadhwani		2			2	$1,850
	Sanan Sjugirov		2			2	$1,850
	Thomas Beerdsen			2		2	$1,850
	P. Iniyan			2		2	$1,850
	Erwin l'Ami			2		2	$1,850
	Jakhongir Vakhidov			2		2	$1,850
95	Gata Kamsky		1	1		2	$3,000
96	Vitaliy Bernadskiy	L	1			1	$2,000
	Vladislav Kovalev	L	1			1	$2,000
	Kamil Dragun	L		1		1	$2,000
	Anton Demchenko	1				1	$1,500
	Laurent Fressinet	1				1	$1,500
	Vladimir Malakhov	1				1	$1,500
	S. P. Sethuraman	1				1	$1,500
	Kirill Shevchenko	1				1	$1,500
	Jonas Buhl Bjerre		1			1	$1,500
	Lê Quang Liêm		1			1	$1,500
	Alexander Moiseenko		1			1	$1,500
	Hans Niemann		1			1	$1,500
	Tamás Bánusz			1		1	$1,500
	Felix Blohberger			1		1	$1,500
	Pranav V			1		1	$1,500
	Read Samadov			1		1	$1,500
-	Pavel Smirnov	L	L	L		0	$1,500
	Martyn Kravtsiv	L	L			0	$1,000
	Gadir Guseinov	L		L		0	$1,000
	Maksim Chigaev	L				0	$500
	Johan-Sebastian Christiansen	L				0	$500
	Andrew Hong	L				0	$500
	Constantin Lupulescu	L				0	$500
	Emin Ohanyan	L				0	$500
	Alexandr Predke	L				0	$500
	Raja Rithvik R	L				0	$500
	Aditya Samant	L				0	$500
	Ivan Saric	L				0	$500
	Nodirbek Abdusattorov		L			0	$500
	Sankalp Gupta		L			0	$500
	Rinat Jumabayev		L			0	$500
	Toms Kantāns		L			0	$500
	Krikor Mekhitarian		L			0	$500
	Leon Luke Mendonca		L			0	$500
	Mahammad Muradli		L			0	$500
	David Navara		L			0	$500
	Zbigniew Pakleza		L			0	$500
	Yago De Moura Santiago			L		0	$500
	Dmitry Frolyanov [ru]			L		0	$500
	Arman Mikaelyan			L		0	$500
	Grzegorz Nasuta			L		0	$500
	Péter Prohászka			L		0	$500
	Renato Quintiliano [pt]			L		0	$500
	Alexander Rustemov			L		0	$500
	Vaibhav Suri			L		0	$500
	Klementy Sychev [ru]			L		0	$500
	Nodirbek Yakubboev			L		0	$500

Division I Play-off

Division I Play-off