Points system
Event points
Circuit points obtained by a player from a tournament are calculated as follows:
where:
- - Points obtained by player from the tournament
- - Basic points
- - Tournament strength factor, calculated as
- - Tournament weighting
- 2.0 - FIDE World Championship 2024
- 1.0 - Standard classical tournaments with at most 1 'multi game-day', a day on which multiple games are played
- 0.9 - Double Round Robin Tournaments with 6-7 and classical tournaments with 2 multi game-days
- 0.8 - World Rapid Championships, Knockout Tournaments with fewer than 6 rounds and classical tournaments with 3 multi game-days
- 0.7 - Standard classical tournaments with 4 multi game-days
- 0.6 - World Blitz Championships, other Rapid tournaments, and classical tournaments with 5 multi game-days
- 0.5 - Mixed Rapid & Blitz tournaments and standard classical tournaments with 6 or more multi game-days
- 0.4 - Blitz tournaments
If multiple weighting coefficients apply these are multiplied together.
Basic points
Basic points for a tournament are awarded depending on the tournament format:
- Swiss-system: Top 8 (within top half of ranking), ties included.
- Double round-robins 6-7 players: Top 2 with ties.
- Round-robins 8-10 players: Top 3 with ties.
- Round-robins 11-13 players: Top 4 with ties.
- Round-robins 14 players: Top 5 with ties.
- Knockout: Third round or later, up to 8 players.
Points are awarded as follows:
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/10 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
- 11 points for an outright winner with no tie-break criteria applied (in Knockout tournaments, victory in the Final after only the games with the longest time control have been played). Otherwise, 10 basic points will be used for calculation.
- For tied positions, basic points are calculated as 50% of points for final ranking as determined by tournament's tie-break rules, plus 50% of the sum of basic points assigned for the tied places divided by the number of tied players. If no tie-break rule is applied, basic points are 100% shared equally among all tied players.
FIDE World Championship 2024 points
For the World Chess Championship 2024, the runner-up Ding Liren received points in the 2025 Circuit equal to the basic points for 2nd place multiplied by the k-factor and multiplied by 2. The TPR for this event will be calculated as the player's performance rating.
FIDE World Cup 2025 points
For the Chess World Cup 2025, the event points will be equal to the normal number of event points plus the difference between the number of games won and lost(if positive, not more than 2). Anyone who is eliminated in the quarter finals of the event will be deemed to have finished in 5th points for basic points, and as such will all gain 5 basic points.
Player's total and ranking
A player's point total for the ranking is the sum of their best 7 tournaments with the following criteria:
| Tournaments | Standard events with under 50 players allowed | Rapid/Blitz allowed |
|---|---|---|
| 1–5 | 4 | 1 |
| 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 7 | 5 | 2 |
- If player has 6 or 7 tournaments to count:
- No more than 4 or 5 respectively standard tournaments with the participation of less than 50 players can be counted.
- No more than 2 rapid/blitz tournaments can be counted.
- If player has 5 tournaments or less:
- No more than 4 standard tournaments with participation of less than 50 players can be counted.
- No more than 1 rapid/blitz tournament can be counted.
Tournaments that could be included in player's results are as follows:
- Official FIDE tournaments.
- National Championships.
- Other eligible tournaments, counting all tournaments with minimum TAR of 2650 and up to two lower tournaments per host country.
