FIDE Chess World Cup 2023

The FIDE Chess World Cup is a prestigious international chess tournament. It is held once every two years. A total of 206 players from around the world compete for the winning title. The Chess World Cup is organized by the International Chess Federation or the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE). 

FIDE is an international governing body of most international chess competitions such as the Chess Olympiad, Chess World Championships, World Team Championships and more. FIDE has been organizing the Chess World Championships for seniors, juniors, women and the disabled since 1984. 

This year the FIDE Chess World Cup 2023 was held from July 30 to August 24, in Baku, Azerbaijan. This was the 10th edition of the chess tournament. The tournament followed a single-elimination format where the player who loses a match is immediately eliminated and the winner moves up to the next match. 

Indian grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, who turned 18 during the tournament, participated in the FIDE Chess World Cup 2023. When he was 16, he beat the then-world chess champion Magnus Carlsen and became the youngest chess player to do so. 

In the finals of the FIDE Chess World Cup 2023, the two chess champions played against each other. World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen won the first rapid tiebreaker and drew with Praggnanandhaa in the second tiebreaker. The 32-year-old, Norwegian player Magnus Carlsen won the title and Pragggnanandhaa became the World Cup runner-up.