How To Watch The 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournaments
The games begin on Thursday, April 4, 2024, for the FIDE Candidates Tournament and FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament! They are being held simultaneously in Toronto, Canada.
This article has all the information you need to watch, follow, and even actively engage with these major events!
Candidates And Women's Candidates Pages
If you're looking for a way to keep up with everything happening in the Candidates and Women's Candidates tournaments, there's no better place than Events page. There, you'll find the events' schedule, results, games, live broadcasts, and everything else you might need to stay on top of two of the most important tournaments of the year. Click the buttons below to go to our Events page!
How To Watch
We have any number of avenues at your disposal for watching these Candidates Tournaments in whatever way you prefer.
FIDE Candidates
- ChessTV, right here on Chess.com
- Chess24 on YouTube
- Chess24 on Twitch
- GM Hikaru Nakamura on Kick
FIDE Women's Candidates
Contests
Is passively watching not enough for you? Here are some interactive ways you can engage with the events:
Predictions
How accurately can you predict the Candidates? Our prediction contest features a six-month diamond membership and a $150 Chessable voucher to the winner! Read about the full prizes and more at our Predictions Contest announcement.
Vote Chess
You can also win prizes by voting on individual game outcomes before every round of both tournaments. Before every round, simply go to each game on the FIDE Candidates and FIDE Women's Candidates events pages, find the Social tab, and pick your winner!
The top 10 finishers from each tournament (Candidates and Women's Candidates) all receive a prize, as follows:
- 1st: $250 Chessable course voucher
- 2nd: $200 Chessable course voucher
- 3rd: $100 Chessable course voucher
- 4th: One-year diamond membership
- 5th: One-year diamond membership
- 6th- 10th: One-month diamond membership
Community Tournaments
Join one of our special Community Candidates Arena Tournaments at 1 p.m. ET / 17:00 CEST / 10:30 p.m. IST. Enter by first signing up for the Chess.com Community Club here.
Community Arenas last two hours each and games are in the 3+0 time control. Arenas happen on the following dates:
- Monday, 8 April at 1 p.m. ET / 17:00 CEST / 10:30 p.m. IST
- Friday, 12 April at 1 p.m. ET / 17:00 CEST / 10:30 p.m. IST
- Tuesday, 16 April at 11 a.m. ET / 15:00 CEST / 8:30 p.m. IST
- Friday, 19 April at 1 p.m. ET / 17:00 CEST / 10:30 p.m. IST
And like the other contests, you can win prizes by playing in the arenas! The prizes are as follows:
- 1st: Caruana's, Nakamura's, or Nepomniachtchi's Chessable Course
- 2nd: six-month diamond membership
- 3rd: three-month diamond membership
- Best streamer: 15 subs
Candidates Schedule
The Candidates and Women's Candidates happen from April 4 to April 22, with all rounds starting at 2:30 p.m. ET / 20:30 CEST / 12 a.m. IST (next day). You can check out a detailed schedule of the Candidates and the Women's Candidates by clicking the button below:
Further Reading
Need even more Candidates content to prepare for the big event? Check out the following stories:
Wondering who you should even root for? We have you covered with quizzes on both tournaments that will recommend which players best fit your style! Who Should You Root For In The Candidates Tournament? | Who Should You Root For In The 2024 Women's Candidates Tournament?
As for who will win the Candidates, check out this predictions article featuring GMs Robert Hess, David Howell, Alexandra Kosteniuk, and Rafael Leitao.
And who wouldn't want to hear what the former world champion and still-current world number one by rating GM Magnus Carlsen has to say about this tournament?
You can also relive some of the top moments that happened during recent Candidates Tournaments that we've collected for you in this video:
Stay tuned throughout this year's tournaments to see who comes out on top!
