Chess World Championship 2024 Prize Money List. The fide world championship 2024 match is the first in 138 years to feature two contestants from asia, the reigning world champion, china’s ding liren and challenger dommaraju gukesh from india competing for the title and a prize fund of us$2.5 million. The prize money for the open category is €48,000 (inr 43.48 lakh) for first place, €36,000 for second place, and €24,000 for third place (with players on the same number of points.

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