2024 World Chess Championship: 25 November - 13 December

The World Chess Championship match starts Monday. FIDE World Chess Championship 2024 - All the Information

FIDE, stands for the Fédération Internationale des Échecs or the World Chess Federation in English. It is the governing body for chess on the world stage. The organization's name is pronounced like Fee-day.

The match will take place at Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore, and consist of best-of-14 classical games. There are tie-breaker protocols in place. Each player will receive 1 point of a win, and ½ point for a tie.

The Players are as follows.

The Defending Champion: Grandmaster (GM) Ding Liren, of China, is the current world champion. Ding finished second in the 2022 Candidates Tournament, but he earned the right to play for the crown when GM Magnus Carlsen decided not to defend his title.

The Challenger: Grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju, of India, is the youngest Challenger in chess history. He is 18 years old. The Indian prodigy qualified to play in the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament through the FIDE Circuit.

Much has been written about the match, but this article details the time limits. Gukesh Vs Ding: Here's What The Numbers Say

The 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship match will consist of a best-of-14 game match for the world championship between November 25 and December 13 at the Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore. If the match is tied after 14 games, the players will compete in rapid tiebreaks and, if needed, blitz tiebreaks.

The standard games have a classical time control of 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 more minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment per move starting on move 41. The players cannot agree to a draw during the first time control, so you can expect to see fighting chess.

I haven't looked to be sure, but the match is usually available to watch on Chess-dot-com. Given that a classic chess game between Grandmasters can be several hours long, I usually read about them the next day. Also given that they are being held in Singapore, I don't know what time of the day they will be live in the US.

The exact rules for becoming a Grandmaster are complicated. A lot of things in chess are that way.

In essence, you need a 2600+ performance rating in a nine-round FIDE tournament, and several of your opponents must be from federations/countries other than your own and also be titled.

There is a $2.5 million prize fund. Each player gets $200,000 up front. (In the past this was done, at lower levels of payout, to offset travel expenses. That is deducted from the prize fund. Each player gets $200,000 for each game they win, At the completion of the tournament, the balance is divided between the players. There are rules in the event the match is settled by a tie breaker. The winner would get slightly more than the loser.