{"id":14109,"date":"2025-11-12T10:36:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/?p=14109"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:39:58","slug":"the-total-chess-world-championship-tour-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/2025\/11\/12\/the-total-chess-world-championship-tour-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"The Total Chess World Championship Tour Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p data-start=\"272\" data-end=\"352\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What if there were one title to decide the world\u2019s most complete chess player?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"354\" data-end=\"512\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That\u2019s the idea behind the <strong data-start=\"381\" data-end=\"420\">Total Chess World Championship Tour<\/strong> \u2014 a brand-new, FIDE-approved global championship created by the team behind Norway Chess.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"354\" data-end=\"512\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong data-start=\"1148\" data-end=\"1189\">Watch our short animation video below<\/strong> to see how the Total Chess World Championship Tour works:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The TOTAL CHESS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TOUR | How it works #TotalChessTour\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cc1FyjQ65tQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"514\" data-end=\"690\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For the first time, all three chess disciplines \u2014 Fast Classic, Rapid, and Blitz \u2014 come together to determine the ultimate champion: the FIDE World Combined Champion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"692\" data-end=\"965\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Each season will feature a global series of tournaments with 24 elite players in each event, competing across three international locations. Only the top four players advance to the fourth and final tournament,, where one titleholder will be crowned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"692\" data-end=\"965\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Players will qualify through rating, FIDE tournaments and other tournaments. The exact qualification system is still under development, and we plan to announce it in Q1 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"967\" data-end=\"1143\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Tour\u2019s test pilot is set for autumn 2026, leading up to the first full championship season in 2027.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if there were one title to decide the world\u2019s most complete chess player? That\u2019s the idea behind the Total Chess World Championship Tour \u2014 a brand-new, FIDE-approved global championship created by the team behind Norway Chess. Watch our short animation video below to see how the Total Chess World Championship Tour works: For the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":14116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14109"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14121,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109\/revisions\/14121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}