[1] The competition followed a similar format to the previous year's edition, taking place at the Dorpshuis De Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, while round 9 of the Masters section was played at the AFAS Circustheater in The Hague, Netherlands as part of the competition's "Chess on Tour" event.
[2] The Masters section was won by China's Wei Yi, who defeated India's Gukesh Dommaraju by a score of 1.5–0.5 in the finals of a four-player knockout tournament tiebreak.
[3][4] India's Leon Luke Mendonca won the Challengers' section, earning a spot in the 2025 Tata Steel Masters event.
[8] Notably, world number one and former World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen did not play at the event for the first time since 2014; Tournament Director Jeroen van den Berg said that Carlsen's absence was due to "scheduling conflicts".
[2] Tiebreaks for the first place were addressed as follows:[10] The pairings for both the Masters[13][14] and Challengers[15][16] section were announced before the start of the tournament.