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Chess tournament
The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament is a Swiss-systemchess tournament, forming part of the qualification for the World Chess Championship. It is organized by Isle of Man International Chess Limited, and sponsored by the Scheinberg family.
Editions and winners
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The players who qualify for the Candidates Tournament are marked with green background. The players who otherwise qualified for the Candidates Tournament before the start of the Grand Swiss Tournament are marked with blue background. In 2019, Alekseenko emerging third in the Grand Swiss made him eligible for the wild card nomination, which is how he qualified to the Candidates Tournament 2020–2021.
The FIDE Grand Swiss was preceded by the Isle of Man International Chess Tournament, which was held annually from 2014 to 2018. The tournament was co-organized by the English Chess Federation. It was sponsored by PokerStars until 2015, and then by Chess.com, which also sponsored the first two editions of the Grand Swiss. All the editions were played at the Villa Marina in Douglas.
The 2017 edition was one of the strongest open events in chess history, with a field that including World Champion Magnus Carlsen, as well as Vladimir Kramnik, Caruana, Viswanathan Anand, Nakamura and Adams. Carlsen won with a score of 7.5/9, half a point ahead of Anand and Nakamura. In 2018, Radosław Wojtaszek beat Arkadij Naiditsch in a playoff after both scored 7/9.
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Wang Hao
Fabiano Caruana
Kirill Alekseenko
Riga
Alireza Firouzja
Vidit Gujrathi
Andrey Esipenko
Samarkand
Elisabeth Pähtz
Anna Muzychuk
