Champions Chess Tour Finals 2024 | SMIFINALS & FINAL Dec 20-21

👉The eight Champions Chess Tour finalists compete to decide who will be the tour's champion.
👉Match Format
December 17 - 19
The eight finalists compete in a single round-robin to determine who advances straight to the semifinals (first and second), goes to the Survival Stage (third through sixth), or gets eliminated (sevent and eighth).
December 19
The four players who placed between third and sixth in the Round-Robin stage play a mini double-elimination knockout to determine the last two spots in the semifinals.
December 20 - 21
The four players who made it from previous phases compete in a single-elimination knockout to determine the Champions Chess Tour winner.
👉Players
Eight players will compete in the CCT Finals. Players have qualified by winning any of the online events of the tour or through the CCT Leaderboard.
Magnus Carlsen
Winner of Chessable Masters
Alireza Firouzja
Winner of Chess.com Classic
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Winner of CrunchLabs Masters
Ian Nepomniachtchi
CCT Leaderboard
Wesley So
CCT Leaderboard
Denis Lazavik
CCT Leaderboard
Vincent Keymer
CCT Leaderboard
Levon Aronian
CCT Leaderboard
👉Location
Screen Studios, Gullhaug Torg 3, 0484 Oslo