Prague Chess Festival

The Prague International Chess Festival, abbreviated as PICF, is an annual chess tournament that takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, since 2019.

It consists of several separate groups including Masters, Challengers, and Futures (organized under the round-robin system), an open tournament (held using the Swiss system), and a series of side tournaments.

[1] The winner of Challengers group receives an invitation to the Masters group the following year, while the winner of the open tournament receives an invitation to the Challengers group.

The festival is organized by the Nový Bor Chess Club and the playing venue is the Don Giovanni Hotel Prague.

The tournament has featured a number of participants of the Candidates Tournament, including Alireza Firouzja, Richárd Rapport, Vidit Gujrathi, Gukesh Dommaraju, R Praggnanandhaa, Wang Hao, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Nijat Abasov, the World Chess Championship 2012 challenger Boris Gelfand and Women's World Chess Champion Ju Wenjun.