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Tata Steel Chess 2025 participants and information

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