FIDE Chess World Cup 2023

The FIDE Chess World Cup is an international chess tournament. It is held once every two years. A total of 206 players from around the world participate in the tournament. 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.

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. 

18-year-old Indian chess champion Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa participated in the FIDE Chess World Cup 2023. In the finals of the FIDE Chess World Cup 2023, he played against the World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen. 32-year-old Magnus Carlsen won the first rapid tiebreaker. In the second tiebreaker, the match was a draw. The Norwegian player Magnus Carlsen won the FIDE Chess World Cup 2023. Pragggnanandhaa became the World Cup runner-up.