Tata Steel Chess 2025 will take place in Wijk aan Zee from 17 January to 2 February 2025. The field of participants of the 87th Tata Steel Chess Tournament is once again extremely strong, with no fewer than five players from the global top ten. The new world champion may also be on display, as Gukesh is in the list of participants. World Chess Championship 2024 – Gukesh vs Ding Liren is in Singapore from 23 November to 13 December and, at eighteen, could become the youngest world champion in history. Gukesh is a good friend of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee: last year he lost in the thrilling final in the tiebreak to Wei Yi from China. Wei Yi will of course defend his title.
Previous winners Fabiano Caruana from the United States and the Dutch players Anish Giri and Jorden van Foreest are also making another attempt at the title in the Masters tournament. Tournament director Jeroen van den Berg is pleased with the field of participants. “I am always looking for a combination of well-known top players and talents.
The Masters are attended by Grandmasters who can still be seen as talented in terms of age, but who have been performing so well in terms of performance that they have actually outgrown that status. I am mainly talking about Praggnanandhaa, Abdusattorov and indeed Gukesh. I am proud when I see how they, partly due to their previous participation in our tournament, are now really structurally among the world’s top. In addition, I aim to select as many players as possible who enjoy a fight. In that respect too, I think we can expect an interesting tournament.”
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Tata Steel Chess 2025 participants
Name
Country
World N
Rating
Birth year
Fabiano Caruana
USA
2
2805
1992
Arjun Erigaisi
India
4
2799
2003
Dommaraju Gukesh
India
5
2783
2006
Nodirbek Abdusattorov
Uzbekistan
6
2777
2004
Wei Yi
China
9
2753
1999
Vidit Gujrathi
India
15
2739
1994
R Praggnanandhaa
India
18
2737
2005
Vincent Keymer
Germany
21
2733
2004
Anish Giri
Nederland
22
2733
1994
Vladimir Fedoseev
Slovenia
27
2712
1995
Jorden van Foreest
Nederland
41
2687
1999
Alexey Sarana
Serbia
49
2679
2000
Max Warmerdam
Nederland
78
2653
2000
Leon Luke Mendonca
India
114
2631
2006
The currently lesser-known talents will play in the Challengers tournament. Among others, the two reigning youth world champions Kazybek Nogerbek (Kazakhstan) and Divya Deshmukh (India) will play there. But also the eleven-year-old promise Faustino Oro from Argentina, the fourteen-year-old Lu Miaoyi from China and the sixteen-year-old Ediz Gürel from Turkey have been invited by Van den Berg. Van den Berg: “I am really looking forward to their arrival and I am curious whether they can make the same great steps as the aforementioned names at the Masters. Our tournament really proves to be a springboard to the world top, and we as an organization are very proud of that.”
Challengers
Name
Country
World rank
Rating
Birth year
Thai Dai Van Nguyen
Czech Republic
59
2670
2001
Nodirbek Yakubboev
Uzbekistan
62
2668
2002
Frederik Svane
Germany
72
2654
2004
Ediz Gürel
Turkyie
108
2635
2008
Aydin Suleymanli
Azerbaijan
113
2632
2005
Erwin l’Ami
Nederland
136
2614
1985
Benjamin Bok
Nederland
200
2593
1995
Kazybek Nogerbek
Kazakhstan
455
2527
2004
Divya Deshmukh
India
664
2793
2005
Rameshbabu Vaishali
India
691
2490
2001
Arthur Pijpers
Nederland
847
2472
1994
Lu Miaoyi
China
1170
2441
2010
Faustino Oro
Argentina
1245
2433
2013
Irina Bulmaga
Romania
1737
2401
1993