FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2021
The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 was a chess tournament that formed part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2022. It was an 11-round Swiss-system tournament, with 108 players competing, running from 25 October to 8 November 2021 in Riga, Latvia, in parallel with the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021. The tournaments were held while Latvia was in a COVID-19 lockdown, which led to a number of players withdrawing before the tournament began.
2021 Grand Swiss Tournament winner Alireza Firouzja | |
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Sport | Chess |
| Location | Riga, Latvia |
| Dates | 25 October 2021– 8 November 2021 |
| Administrator | FIDE |
Tournament format(s) | Swiss-system tournament |
| Host(s) | IOM International Chess Limited |
| Final positions | |
| Champion | Alireza Firouzja |
| Runner-up | Fabiano Caruana |
The tournament was won by Alireza Firouzja. The top two finishers, Firouzja and Fabiano Caruana, qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2022. The rest of the top eight, Grigoriy Oparin, Yu Yangyi, Vincent Keymer, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Alexandr Predke and Alexei Shirov, qualified for the FIDE Grand Prix 2022.