17 year old player GM advances to the FIDE World Chess Championship

The FIDE Candidates Tournament 20234 was held from 2nd to 23 April in Toronto, Canada at the Toronto's Great Hall and The Open and Women's Candidates Tournament was played at the same time at the same venue.

Eight (8) players in the Open section and eight (8) players in the Women's section played a double round-robin tournament.  The total prize fund for the event was £750,000 (£500,000 for the Open event and £250,000 for the Women's event).

Players (Open Section)
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi
GM Praggnanandhaa R
Fabiano Caruana
GM Nojat Abasov
GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
Hikaru Nakamura
GM Alireza Firouzja
GM Gukesh D

Players (Women's Section)
Lei Tingjie
Kateryna Lagno
Aleksandra Goryachkina
Nurgyul Salimova
Anna Muzychuk
Vaishali Rameshbabu
Tan Zhongyi
Humpy Koneru

At the end of the double round-robin tournament GM Gukesh D of India and GM Tan Zhongyi of China qualified as challenger for the Open and Women's FIDE World Chess Championship respectively.

GM Gukesh D, a 17 year old from India is the youngest chess player ever to qualify as a challenger for the World Chess Championship!