FIDE Chess World Cup 2023

Held once every two years, the FIDE Chess World Cup is a prestigious chess tournament in which 206 players from around the world compete for the winning title. It is organized by the International Chess Federation or the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE), which is an international governing body of most international chess competitions. The organization was founded in 1924 in Paris and is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. FIDE is responsible for organizing international chess tournaments 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. He beat the then-world chess champion Magnus Carlsen when he was 16 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 added a feather in his cap. Pragggnanandhaa became the World Cup runner-up.