Grand Chess Tour 2024
2024 | |
Tournament information | |
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Dates | May 6–August 31, 2024 |
The Grand Chess Tour 2024 is a series of chess tournaments, which is the ninth edition of the Grand Chess Tour. It will consist of five tournaments with a total prize pool of US$1.4 million, including two tournaments with classical time control and three tournaments with faster time controls.[1][2]
The lineup for the tour consisted of nine players, including the defending GCT champion Fabiano Caruana, the World Chess Championship 2023 runner-up Ian Nepomniachtchi, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, World Chess Championship 2024 challenger Gukesh D, the two time Grand Chess Tour winner Wesley So, R Praggnanandhaa, Anish Giri, the 2022 GCT champion Alireza Firouzja and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.
Format[edit]
The tour will consist of five tournaments, two classicals and three rapid & blitz, respectively. Rapid & Blitz tournaments consisted of two parts – rapid (2 points for win, 1 for draw) and blitz (1 point for win, 0.5 for draw). Combined result for both portions will count in overall standings.[3][4]
The tour points are to be awarded as follows:
Place Tour Points Classical
prize moneyRapid & Blitz
prize moneyGCT Tour
bonuses1st 12/13* $100,000 $40,000 $100,000 2nd 10 $65,000 $30,000 $50,000 3rd 8 $48,000 $25,000 $25,000 4th 7 $32,000 $20,000 5th 6 $26,000 $15,000 6th 5 $21,000 $11,000 7th 4 $18,500 $10,000 8th 3 $16,000 $9,000 9th 2 $13,000 $8,000 10th 1 $10,500 $7,000
- If a player wins 1st place outright (without the need for a playoff), they are awarded 13 points instead of 12.
- Tour points and prize money are shared equally between tied players.
Results[edit]
Tournament results[edit]
Dates | Tournament Name | Format | Host city | Winner | Runner-Up | Third Place |
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May 6–13, 2024 | Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland | Rapid & blitz | Warsaw | |||
June 24–July 6, 2024 | Superbet Chess Classic Romania | Classical | Bucharest | |||
July 8–15, 2024 | SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia | Rapid & blitz | Zagreb | |||
August 10–17, 2024 | Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz | Rapid & blitz | St. Louis | |||
August 17–31, 2024 | Sinquefield Cup | Classical |
Tour rankings[edit]
The wildcards (in italics) are not counted in overall standings.
Player | POL | ROU | CRO | STL | SIN | Total points |
Prize money | |
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T1 | Fabiano Caruana (United States) | — | 0 | $0 | ||||
T1 | Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)[a] | — | 0 | $0 | ||||
T1 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan) | — | 0 | $0 | ||||
T1 | Gukesh D (India) | — | 0 | $0 | ||||
T1 | Wesley So (United States) | — | 0 | $0 | ||||
T1 | R Praggnanandhaa (India) | — | 0 | $0 | ||||
T1 | Anish Giri (Netherlands) | — | 0 | $0 | ||||
T1 | Alireza Firouzja (France) | — | 0 | $0 | ||||
T1 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) | — | 0 | $0 | ||||
Magnus Carlsen (Norway) | — | — | — | 0 | $0 | |||
Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland) | — | — | — | — | 0 | $0 | ||
Wei Yi (China) | — | — | — | — | 0 | $0 | ||
Arjun Erigaisi (India) | — | — | — | — | 0 | $0 | ||
Vincent Keymer (Germany) | — | — | — | — | 0 | $0 | ||
Kirill Shevchenko (Romania) | — | — | — | — | 0 | $0 | ||
Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania) | — | — | — | — | 0 | $0 | ||
Vidit Gujrathi (India) | — | — | — | — | 0 | $0 | ||
Ivan Šarić (Croatia) | — | — | — | — | 0 | $0 | ||
Hikaru Nakamura (United States) | — | — | — | — | 0 | $0 | ||
Levon Aronian (United States) | — | — | — | — | 0 | $0 | ||
Leinier Domínguez (United States) | — | — | — | — | 0 | $0 | ||
Ding Liren (China) | — | — | — | — | 0 | $0 |
References[edit]
- ^ "2024 Grand Chess Tour Overview".
- ^ "The Grand Chess Tour Returns In 2024". February 23, 2024.
- ^ "2024 GCT Tour Regulations" (PDF).
- ^ "2024 GCT Tour Event Regulations" (PDF).
- ^ FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, February 28, 2022
Notes[edit]
- ^ Nepomniachtchi is Russian, but plays under the FIDE flag due to FIDE banning Russian and Belarusian flags from FIDE-rated events in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[5]