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The 2023 FIDE World Championship is the most important over-the-board classical event of the year and decides who will be the next world champion. GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren will play a match to decide who takes over GM Magnus Carlsen's throne after the current world champion abdicated his title.

The players will battle it out in the St. Regis Astana Hotel in Astana, Kazakhstan on April 9-30 for the ultimate title in the chess world, an opportunity to go down in history as well as a two million euros prize fund which will be split 60:40, or 55:45 if it goes to a playoff.

All the games will start at 9 am UTC.

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Format and Time Controls

The match consists of up to 14 classical games. The player who scores at least 7.5 points wins the match and becomes the next World Champion. Each player has 120 minutes for 40 moves, then 60 minutes for the next 20, then 15 minutes to the end of the game, with a 30-second increment starting only from move 61. No draw offers are allowed until Black's 40th move has been made.

If the match is tied after 14 games, the match will move on to a playoff which will consist of four 25-minute games, with a 10-second increment from move 1. If still tied, up to two pairs of 5 3 games will be played. If tied again, single 3 2 games are played, with colors reversed each game, until one player wins.

Live Coverage and Recaps

• The official studio broadcast, is available to watch on FIDE's YouTube and Twitch channels. Commentary and analysis is provided by Grandmasters Viswanathan Anand, Daniil Dubov, and Irina Krush.
• Chess.com is an official broadcast partner of the event, and is providing live coverage on their YouTube and Twitch channels. Commentators include GMs Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Daniel Naroditsky, Robert Hess, David Howell, and IM Tania Sachdev.
• Chess.com also provides several non-English commentary streams in languages like French, Spanish, Polish, German, Italian, Turkish, Korean and Indonesian.
• Russian Commentary by GMs Peter Svidler and Alexander Grischuk are available in the Levitov Chess Youtube channel.
• Recaps of each round are uploaded on youtube by Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Daniil Dubov, Levy Rozman, Daniel King, Sagar Shah, Agadmator and other
• Important reminder that there are imposter streams pretending to be chess.com that push scams. For more information, click here. Please be careful, especially when sending money online.

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