Tata Steel Chess 2025 participants and information
Tata Steel Chess 2025 will take place in Wijk aan Zee from 17 January to 2 February 2025. The field of participants of the 87th Tata Steel Chess Tournament is once again extremely strong, with no fewer than five players from the global top ten. The new world champion may also be on display, as Gukesh is in the list of participants. World Chess Championship 2024 – Gukesh vs Ding Liren is in Singapore from 23 November to 13 December and, at eighteen, could become the youngest world champion in history. Gukesh is a good friend of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee: last year he lost in the thrilling final in the tiebreak to Wei Yi from China. Wei Yi will of course defend his title.
Previous winners Fabiano Caruana from the United States and the Dutch players Anish Giri and Jorden van Foreest are also making another attempt at the title in the Masters tournament. Tournament director Jeroen van den Berg is pleased with the field of participants. “I am always looking for a combination of well-known top players and talents.
The Masters are attended by Grandmasters who can still be seen as talented in terms of age, but who have been performing so well in terms of performance that they have actually outgrown that status. I am mainly talking about Praggnanandhaa, Abdusattorov and indeed Gukesh. I am proud when I see how they, partly due to their previous participation in our tournament, are now really structurally among the world’s top. In addition, I aim to select as many players as possible who enjoy a fight. In that respect too, I think we can expect an interesting tournament.”
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Tata Steel Chess 2025 participants
| Name | Country | World N | Rating | Birth year |
| Fabiano Caruana | USA | 2 | 2805 | 1992 |
| Arjun Erigaisi | India | 4 | 2799 | 2003 |
| Dommaraju Gukesh | India | 5 | 2783 | 2006 |
| Nodirbek Abdusattorov | Uzbekistan | 6 | 2777 | 2004 |
| Wei Yi | China | 9 | 2753 | 1999 |
| Vidit Gujrathi | India | 15 | 2739 | 1994 |
| R Praggnanandhaa | India | 18 | 2737 | 2005 |
| Vincent Keymer | Germany | 21 | 2733 | 2004 |
| Anish Giri | Nederland | 22 | 2733 | 1994 |
| Vladimir Fedoseev | Slovenia | 27 | 2712 | 1995 |
| Jorden van Foreest | Nederland | 41 | 2687 | 1999 |
| Alexey Sarana | Serbia | 49 | 2679 | 2000 |
| Max Warmerdam | Nederland | 78 | 2653 | 2000 |
| Leon Luke Mendonca | India | 114 | 2631 | 2006 |
The currently lesser-known talents will play in the Challengers tournament. Among others, the two reigning youth world champions Kazybek Nogerbek (Kazakhstan) and Divya Deshmukh (India) will play there. But also the eleven-year-old promise Faustino Oro from Argentina, the fourteen-year-old Lu Miaoyi from China and the sixteen-year-old Ediz Gürel from Turkey have been invited by Van den Berg. Van den Berg: “I am really looking forward to their arrival and I am curious whether they can make the same great steps as the aforementioned names at the Masters. Our tournament really proves to be a springboard to the world top, and we as an organization are very proud of that.”
Challengers
| Name | Country | World rank | Rating | Birth year |
| Thai Dai Van Nguyen | Czech Republic | 59 | 2670 | 2001 |
| Nodirbek Yakubboev | Uzbekistan | 62 | 2668 | 2002 |
| Frederik Svane | Germany | 72 | 2654 | 2004 |
| Ediz Gürel | Turkyie | 108 | 2635 | 2008 |
| Aydin Suleymanli | Azerbaijan | 113 | 2632 | 2005 |
| Erwin l’Ami | Nederland | 136 | 2614 | 1985 |
| Benjamin Bok | Nederland | 200 | 2593 | 1995 |
| Kazybek Nogerbek | Kazakhstan | 455 | 2527 | 2004 |
| Divya Deshmukh | India | 664 | 2793 | 2005 |
| Rameshbabu Vaishali | India | 691 | 2490 | 2001 |
| Arthur Pijpers | Nederland | 847 | 2472 | 1994 |
| Lu Miaoyi | China | 1170 | 2441 | 2010 |
| Faustino Oro | Argentina | 1245 | 2433 | 2013 |
| Irina Bulmaga | Romania | 1737 | 2401 | 1993 |