The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2024 was a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2024 by Chess.com. The tour started on 26 January 2024 and ended on 21 December 2024. It involved four online chess tournaments and an over-the-board final round, featuring some of the world's top players who played for a prize money pool of .
Format Regular tournament Each Regular tournament was conducted in the following stages: Stage Format Players entering this round Players advancing from previous round Qualifiers Swiss-system9 rounds Titled players below Grandmaster Play-In Swiss-system9 rounds Grandmasters Top 3 from Qualifier of past 2024 Regular tournaments Top 3 from Qualifier Division Placement Single-elimination2 roundsR1: 2-games matchR2: 4-games match Bye to Round 2: 3rd-4th from Div. I of previous Regular tournament 2nd from Div. II of previous Regular tournament Winner from Div. III of previous Regular tournament Bye to Round 2: Winner from Play-In Entering Round 1: 2nd-11th from Play-In Single-elimination2 roundsR1: 2-games matchR2: 4-games match Bye to Round 2: 12th-17th from Play-In Entering Round 1: 18th-29th from Play-In Single match4-games match 30th-69th from Play-In Division Play Double-eliminationUpper: 4-games matchLower: 2-games match Top 2 from Div. I of previous Regular tournament Winner from Div. II of previous Regular tournament 5 winners from Div. I Placement Double-eliminationUpper: 4-games matchLower: 2-games match 10 losers from Div. I Placement 6 winners from Div. II Placement Double-eliminationUpper: 4-games matchLower: 2-games match 12 losers from Div. II Placement 20 winners from Div. III Placement Every game is played under the time control of 10+2. In Division Placement and Division Play, if a match is tied, an armageddon game is played to decide the winner, using bidding system to determine playing time and color (base time of 10 minutes). For Chessable Masters, the first event of 2024 edition, 2023 AI Cup was designated as its previous Regular tournament.
Finals The CCT 2024 Finals is scheduled as an in-person event in Oslo, Norway. Eight players, Division I winners from each of the four Regular events and top players in the points leaderboard, are invited. The format for the event is similar to the previous year, which goes as follows: Round-robin stage: Eight players play each other in two-game matches. If a match is tied, an armageddon game is played to decide the winner of the match. First and second place directly qualified to semifinals, third to sixth place advanced to the survival stage, while the last two places are eliminated. Survival stage: The four players in this stage play a mini double-elimination tournament, with 3rd and 4th starting in upper bracket, and 5th-6th in lower bracket. Each match consist of two games, with armageddon tiebreak. Two players, winner of each of upper and lower bracket, advance to the semifinals. Semifinals and final: Four players play a single-elimination tournament to determine the Tour winner. Each match consist of six games.
Tour points and prize money Regular The total prize pool for a Regular tournament is for each tournament, distributed as follows:
Points FinishDivision IDivision IIDivision III1st10050302nd8040253rd6030204th5025155th (x2)4020107th (x2)301579th (x4) -10513th (x4) -5317th (x8) - -225th (x8) - -1
Prize Money FinishDivision IDivision IIDivision III1st$30,000$15,000$7,5002nd$20,000$10,000$6,0003rd$15,000$7,500$5,0004th$12,500$6,000$4,0005th (x2)$10,000$5,500$3,5007th (x2)$7,500$5,000$3,0009th (x4) -$4,500$2,60013th (x4) -$4,000$2,20017th (x8) - -$1,85025th (x8) - -$1,500Placement (x20) - -$500Total$112,500$93,500$91,500
Finals The Finals will have a $500,000 purse. Placing Prize1st$200,0002nd$100,0003rd-4th (x2)$50,0005th$25,0006th$20,0007th$15,0008th$12,000Per Playoff match win$1,000
Tournament schedule and results +Champions Chess Tour tournamentsTournamentDatesPrizeDivision IWinner of Division IIWinner of Division III Winner Second(or finalist) Third Fourth Chessable Masters January 31–February 7$300,000 Magnus Carlsen Alireza Firouzja Denis Lazavik Ian Nepomniachtchi Vincent Keymer Alexey Sarana Chess.com Classic May 10–16 Alireza Firouzja Magnus Carlsen Vincent Keymer Jan-Krzysztof Duda Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Dmitry Andreikin CrunchLabs Masters July 17–24 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Alireza Firouzja Ian Nepomniachtchi Magnus Carlsen Alexander Grischuk Arjun Erigaisi Julius Baer Generation Cup September 25–October 2 Magnus Carlsen Alireza Firouzja Levon Aronian Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Wesley So Fabiano Caruana Final December 14–21 $500,000 Magnus Carlsen Ian Nepomniachtchi
Standings Prize money is shown in US dollars. Bold number denotes a win in that division. L denotes losers of Division III Placement stage. Legend Did not qualify/participate Division I Division II Division III
PosNameChessable MastersChess.com ClassicCrunchLabs MastersJulius Baer Generation CupTotal PointsPrize money 1 Alireza Firouzja 80 100 80 80 340 $90,000 2 Magnus Carlsen 100 80 50 100 330 $93,000 3 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 30 50 100 50 230 $65,500 4 Ian Nepomniachtchi 50 40 60 30 180 $45,000 5 Wesley So 30 40 40 50 160 $42,500 6 Denis Lazavik 60 40 3 40 143 $37,200 7 Vincent Keymer 50 60 25 135 $36,000 8 Levon Aronian 40 25 10 60 135 $35,500 9 Alexander Grischuk 25 50 40 115 $31,000 10 Vladimir Fedoseev 40 25 40 105 $26,000 11 Jan-Krzysztof Duda 50 40 1 91 $24,000 12 Vidit Gujrathi L 20 40 25 85 $22,000 13 José Martínez 40 10 L 30 80 $20,000 14 Fabiano Caruana 10 30 30 70 $19,500 15 Alexey Sarana 30 30 1 61 $16,500 16 Dmitry Andreikin 30 30 60 $15,000 Arjun Erigaisi 30 30 60 $15,000 18 Benjamin Bok 30 2 2 10 44 $15,700 19 Jules Moussard 2 20 20 42 $12,350 20 Olexandr Bortnyk 20 7 15 42 $13,000 21 Hikaru Nakamura 10 30 40 $12,000 22 Grigoriy Oparin 30 5 5 40 $15,500 23 Shant Sargsyan 20 20 40 $10,500 24 Karthikeyan Murali 5 20 15 L 40 $13,100 25 Velimir Ivić 30 3 33 $9,700
PosNameChessable MastersChess.com ClassicCrunchLabs MastersJulius Baer Generation CupTotal PointsPrize money 26 Daniil Dubov 1 20 10 31 $10,500 27 Bardiya Daneshvar 10 5 15 30 $11,100 28 David Antón Guijarro 10 L 10 10 30 $13,000 29 Anish Giri 20 7 27 $8,500 Aleksandar Inđić 7 20 27 $8,500 31 Vasif Durarbayli 2 15 10 27 $11,350 32 Vladislav Artemiev 25 25 $6,000 33 Evgeny Alekseev L 25 25 $6,500 Nils Grandelius 25 25 $6,000 35 Samuel Sevian 10 15 L 25 $10,000 36 Lê Tuấn Minh L 15 10 25 $9,000 37 Jaime Santos Latasa 5 15 2 22 $8,450 38 Yu Yangyi 20 20 $5,500 Vladimir Kramnik 20 20 $5,500 40 Rauf Mamedov 15 5 20 $7,600 41 David Paravyan 10 5 5 20 $8,700 42 Aram Hakobyan L 10 5 3 18 $9,800 43 Andrey Esipenko 15 L 2 17 $7,350 44 Javokhir Sindarov 7 10 17 $6,500 45 Bogdan-Daniel Deac 3 7 5 2 17 $11,050 46 Jeffery Xiong 15 L 15 $5,500 47 Eltaj Safarli 15 L 15 $4,500 Boris Gelfand 15 15 $4,000 49 Maxim Matlakov 5 10 15 $7,100 50 Frederik Svane 10 2 12 $6,350 51 Mikhail Antipov 7 5 12 $7,000 52 Samvel Ter-Sahakyan 10 L L 10 $5,500 Dmitrij Kollars 10 L L 10 $5,500 Mukhiddin Madaminov 10 10 $4,500 55 Ádám Kozák 10 10 $3,500 Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn 10 10 $3,500 Anton Korobov 10 10 $3,500 58 Christopher Yoo 3 L 7 10 $5,700 59 Hans Niemann 1 7 8 $4,500 60 Rudik Makarian 3 5 8 $4,800 61 Haik M. Martirosyan 5 2 7 $5,850 Aleksandr Rakhmanov 2 5 7 $5,850 63 Shamsiddin Vokhidov 5 1 1 L 7 $7,500 64 Matthias Blübaum L 5 L 5 $5,000 Alan Pichot L 5 5 $4,500 Nodirbek Yakubboev L 5 5 $4,500 Peter Svidler 5 L 5 $4,500 Aleksandr Shimanov 5 5 $4,000 Leinier Domínguez 5 5 $4,000 Jorden van Foreest 5 5 $4,000 Ray Robson 5 5 $4,000 72 David Navara L 5 5 $3,100 Amin Tabatabaei 5 5 $2,600 Andrew Tang 5 5 $2,600 Georg Meier 5 5 $2,600 Abhimanyu Puranik 5 5 $2,600 Bharath Subramaniyam 5 5 $2,600 Nikolas Theodorou 5 5 $2,600 79 Kirill Alekseenko 2 L L 3 5 $5,050 Yuriy Kuzubov 3 2 L 5 $4,550 81 Gata Kamsky 1 1 3 5 $5,200 82 Rasmus Svane 1 L 2 2 5 $5,700 83 Eduardo Iturrizaga 3 L 3 $2,700 Sergei Lobanov 3 L 3 $2,700 Igor Lysyj 3 3 $2,200 Vugar Rasulov 3 3 $2,200 Max Warmerdam 3 3 $2,200 Maciej Klekowski 3 3 $2,200 Marin Bosiočić 3 3 $2,200 90 Benjámin Gledura 2 1 L 3 $3,850 Gabriel Sargissian 2 1 3 $3,350 Alexey Dreev 1 2 3 $3,350 93 Cristobal Henriquez Villagra 2 L 2 $2,350 Nikita Meshkovs 2 L 2 $2,350 P. Iniyan 2 L 2 $2,350 Thomas Beerdsen 2 L 2 $2,350 Alexandr Predke L 2 2 $2,350 Abhimanyu Mishra 2 2 $1,850 Kacper Piorun 2 2 $1,850 Ruslan Ponomariov 2 2 $1,850 Pouya Idani 2 2 $1,850 Teimour Radjabov 2 2 $1,850 Raunak Sadhwani 2 2 $1,850 Sanan Sjugirov 2 2 $1,850 Erwin l'Ami 2 2 $1,850 Jakhongir Vakhidov 2 2 $1,850 Bassem Amin 2 2 $1,850 108 Pranav V 1 1 2 $3,000 109 Gadir Guseinov L L 1 1 $2,500 Vitaliy Bernadskiy L 1 1 $2,000 Vladislav Kovalev L 1 1 $2,000 Kamil Dragun L 1 1 $2,000 Felix Blohberger 1 L 1 $2,000 Anton Demchenko 1 1 $1,500 Laurent Fressinet 1 1 $1,500 Vladimir Malakhov 1 1 $1,500 S. P. Sethuraman 1 1 $1,500 Kirill Shevchenko 1 1 $1,500 Jonas Buhl Bjerre 1 1 $1,500 Lê Quang Liêm 1 1 $1,500 Alexander Moiseenko 1 1 $1,500 Tamás Bánusz 1 1 $1,500 Read Samadov 1 1 $1,500 Mikhail Kobalia 1 1 $1,500 Pavel Ponkratov 1 1 $1,500 Mustafa Yılmaz 1 1 $1,500 – Pavel Smirnov L L L L 0 $2,000 Martyn Kravtsiv L L 0 $1,000 Maksim Chigaev L L 0 $1,000 Johan-Sebastian Christiansen L 0 $500 Andrew Hong L 0 $500 Constantin Lupulescu L 0 $500 Emin Ohanyan L 0 $500 Raja Rithvik R L 0 $500 Aditya Samant L 0 $500 Ivan Saric L 0 $500 Nodirbek Abdusattorov L 0 $500 Sankalp Gupta L 0 $500 Rinat Jumabayev L 0 $500 Toms Kantāns L 0 $500 Krikor Mekhitarian L 0 $500 Leon Luke Mendonca L 0 $500 Mahammad Muradli L 0 $500 Zbigniew Pakleza L 0 $500 Yago De Moura Santiago L 0 $500 L 0 $500 Arman Mikaelyan L 0 $500 Grzegorz Nasuta L 0 $500 Péter Prohászka L 0 $500 Renato Quintiliano L 0 $500 Alexander Rustemov L 0 $500 Vaibhav Suri L 0 $500 Klementy Sychev L 0 $500 Sergey Drygalov L 0 $500 Eray Kılıç L 0 $500 Arseniy Nesterov L 0 $500 Levan Pantsulaia L 0 $500 Robert Piliposyan L 0 $500 Ihor Samunenkov L 0 $500 Andy Woodward L 0 $500
Tournaments details Chessable Masters Division I Play-off
Chess.com Classic Division I Play-off
CrunchLabs Masters Division I Play-off
Julius Baer Generation Cup Division I Play-off
Tour Finals Round-robin stage {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |+ Champion Chess Tour Finals, round-robin stage, 17 – 19 December 2024, Oslo, Norway ! !! Player !! Rating ! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 ! !! |- | 1 || align=left| || 2838 | || ½ ½ ½ || 1 ½ || 1 ½ || 1 0 ½* || 1 ½ || 1 ½ || 0 1 1 || 6 || |- | 2 || align=left| || 2756 | ½ ½ ½* || || ½ 1 || 1 0 ½ || 1 ½ || ½ 1 || 1 ½ || 0 0 || 5 || 1 |- | 3 || align=left| || 2758 | 0 ½ || ½ 0 || || 1 0 1 || ½ ½ 1 || 1 0 1 || 1 ½ || 1 ½ || 5 || 0 |- | 4 || align=left| || 2553 | 0 ½ || 0 1 ½* || 0 1 0 || || ½ 1 || ½ ½ 1 || 1 0 0 || 1 ½ || 4 || |- | 5 || align=left| || 2763 | 0 1 ½ || 0 ½ || ½ ½ 0 || ½ 0 || || 1 ½ || 1 1 || ½ 0 || 2 || 2; 1 |- | 6 || align=left| || 2649 | 0 ½ || ½ 0 || 0 1 0 || ½ ½ 0 || 0 ½ || || ½ 1 || 0 1 ½* || 2 || 2; 0 |- | 7 || align=left| || 2757 | 0 ½ || 0 ½ || 0 ½ || 0 1 1 || 0 0 || ½ 0 || || 1 1 || 2 || 1; 1 |- | 8 || align=left| || 2739 | 1 0 0 || 1 1 || 0 ½ || 0 ½ || ½ 1 || 1 0 ½ || 0 0 || || 2 || 1; 0
* - Match win by drawing armageddon game with black
Survival stage
+ 3rd-4th place match Player 1 2 3 Ian Nepomniachtchi½1 4 Denis Lazavik½0+ 5th-6th place match Player 1 2 5 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave11 6 Vincent Keymer00+ 4th-5th place match Player 1 2 4 Denis Lazavik½0 5 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave½1
Semifinals and finals
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |+ Semifinal 1 ! !! Player !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 |- | 1 || align=left| Magnus Carlsen | style="background:white; color:black" |1 | style="background:black; color:white" |0 | style="background:white; color:black" |1 | style="background:black; color:white" |½ | style="background:white; color:black" |1 |-