Champions Chess Tour 2025
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Duration | 16 February – 1 August 2025 |
| Tournaments | 3 |
| Categories | Regular (2) Finals* (1) |
| Achievements (singles) | |
| Most titles | Magnus Carlsen (2) |
| Prize money leader | Magnus Carlsen ($50,000) |
| Points leader | Magnus Carlsen (200) |
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The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2025 is a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2025 by Chess.com. The regular tour started on 26 January 2025 and ended on 23 May 2025. It involved two online chess tournaments, featuring some of the world's top players who play for a prize money pool of US$300,000.
The top twelve players qualified for the Tour Finals at the Esports World Cup.
Tour points and prize money
Regular
The total prize pool for a Regular tournament is US$150,000 for each tournament, distributed as follows:[1]
| Finish | Points | Prize |
| 1st | 100 | $25,000 |
| 2nd | 80 | $20,000 |
| 3rd | 65 | $15,000 |
| 4th | 50 | $10,000 |
| 5th (x2) | 40 | $8,000 |
| 7th (x2) | 30 | $7,000 |
| 9th (x4) | 20 | $6,000 |
| 13th (x4) | 10 | $5,000 |
| Match Play | 5 | - |
| Play-In (16th - 30th) | 3 | - |
| Play-In (31th - 40th) | 2 | - |
| Play-In (41th - 50th) | 1 | - |
Tournament schedule and results
| Tournament | Dates | Prize | Winner | Second (or finalist) |
Third | Fourth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chessable Masters[2] | February 16–22 | $150,000 | Magnus Carlsen | Hikaru Nakamura | Ian Nepomniachtchi | Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
| Chess.com Classic[3] | May 18–23 | Magnus Carlsen | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | Hikaru Nakamura | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | |
| Esports World Cup | July 29– August 1 | $1,500,000 | TBD | TBD |
Standings
Prize money is shown in US dollars. Top 12 qualify for Esports World Cup.
| Pos | Name | Chessable Masters | Chess.com Classic | Total Points | Prize Money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magnus Carlsen | 100 | 100 | 200 | $50,000 |
| 2 | Hikaru Nakamura | 80 | 65 | 145 | $35,000 |
| 3 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | 65 | 40 | 105 | $23,000 |
| 4 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 5 | 80 | 85 | $20,000 |
| 5 | Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 50 | 10 | 60 | $15,000 |
| 6 | Arjun Erigaisi | 40 | 20 | 60 | $14,000 |
| 7 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 5 | 50 | 55 | $10,000 |
| 8 | Vladislav Artemiev | 20 | 30 | 50 | $13,000 |
| 9 | Alireza Firouzja | 40 | 3 | 43 | $8,000 |
| 10 | Vladimir Fedoseev | - | 40 | 40 | $8,000 |
| 11 | Fabiano Caruana | 20 | 20 | 40 | $12,000 |
| 12 | Wei Yi | 20 | 20 | 40 | $12,000 |
| 13 | Levon Aronian | 3 | 30 | 33 | $7,000 |
| 14 | Andrey Esipenko | 30 | 2 | 32 | $7,000 |
| 15 | Yu Yangyi | 30 | 1 | 31 | $7,000 |
| 16 | Ding Liren | - | 20 | 20 | $6,000 |
| Anish Giri | 20 | 0 | 20 | $6,000 | |
| 18 | Praggnanandhaa R | 10 | 10 | 20 | $10,000 |
| 19 | Denis Lazavik | 5 | 10 | 15 | $5,000 |
| 20 | Alexander Grischuk | 10 | 3 | 13 | $5,000 |
| 21 | Sam Sevian | 10 | 1 | 11 | $5,000 |
| 22 | Gukesh D | - | 10 | 10 | $5,000 |
| Wesley So | 10 | 0 | 10 | $5,000 | |
| 24 | Nihal Sarin | 3 | 5 | 8 | $0 |
Tournaments details
Chessable Masters
- Play-offs
Chess.com Classic
- Play-offs
References
- ^ "Chess.com Official 2025 Event Rulebook - Champions Chess Tour". Chess.com. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
- ^ "Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters 2025 – Results". Retrieved 2025-05-21.
- ^ "Champions Chess Tour Chess.com Classic 2025 – Results". Retrieved 2025-05-21.