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]
| 2024 | |
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | May 6–August 31, 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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]