The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 was a chess tournament organized by FIDE, a international governing body of chess, in September 2025. It was an 11-round Swiss-system tournament that formed part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2026. Anish Giri won the tournament, and thus, along with the runner-up Matthias Blübaum, qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2026.
The Grand Swiss was open to both genders. The FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 was held in parallel for women only.
The tournament had an 11-round Swiss format featuring 116 players.
The games used a classical time control of 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30 second increment from move 1.
The total prize pool of the tournament was $625,000 <abbr>USD</abbr>, with the winner earning $90,000 and second $75,000.
Tie-breaks between players who finished on the same score were determined, in order, by the following criteria:
The tournament took place from 3âÂÂ15 September 2025 at the Silk Road EXPO in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Notation: "1 (B 51)" indicates a win (1 point) with black pieces (B) against the player who finished 51st (Robert Hovhannisyan). The first tiebreak (labeled AROC-1) is the average rating of opponents "cut 1" (viz. excluding the lowest-rated opponent). The second tiebreak (labeled BC-1) is the Buchholz "cut 1" (viz. excluding the lowest-rated opponent).