The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2025 was a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2025 by Chess.com. The tour started on 16 February 2025 and ended on 23 May 2025. It involved two online chess tournaments, featuring some of the world's top players who competed for a prize pool of .
The top twelve players qualified for the Esports World Cup.
Tour points and prize money
The total prize pool for each tournament was for each tournament, distributed as follows:
FinishPointsPrize1st100$25,0002nd80$20,0003rd65$15,0004th50$10,0005th (x2)40$8,0007th (x2)30$7,0009th (x4)20$6,00013th (x4)10$5,000Match Play 5 -Play-In (16th - 30th) 3 -Play-In (31th - 40th) 2 -Play-In (41th - 50th) 1 -
Tournament schedule and results +Champions Chess Tour tournamentsTournamentDatesPrize Winner Second(or finalist) Third Fourth Chessable Masters February 16–22$150,000 Magnus Carlsen Hikaru Nakamura Ian Nepomniachtchi Jan-Krzysztof Duda Chess.com Classic May 18–23 Magnus Carlsen Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Hikaru Nakamura Nodirbek Abdusattorov
Standings Prize money is shown in US dollars. The top twelve players qualified for the Esports World Cup.
PosNameChessable MastersChess.com ClassicTotal PointsPrize 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 Sarin358 $0
Tournaments details Chessable Masters Play-offs
Chess.com Classic Play-offs
Esports World Cup
In December 2024, Chess.com announced a partnership with the Esports World Cup Foundation to include chess in the 2025 Esports World Cup, with the Champions Chess Tour now serving as the main qualifier.
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