Grand Chess Tour 2024
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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 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 (2016, 2021) winner Wesley So, R Praggnanandhaa, Anish Giri, the Grand Chess Tour 2022 winner Alireza Firouzja and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.
Format
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]
The tour points were awarded as follows:
Place Tour Points Classical
prize moneyRapid & Blitz
prize money1st 12/13* $100,000 $40,000 2nd 10 $65,000 $30,000 3rd 8 $48,000 $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
Tournament results
| Dates | Tournament Name | Host city | Winner | Runner-Up | Third Place |
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| May 6–13, 2024 | Superbet Rapid & Blitz | Warsaw | |||
| June 24– July 6, 2024 | Superbet Chess Classic | Bucharest | |||
| July 8–15, 2024 | SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz | Zagreb | |||
| August 10–17, 2024 | Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz | St. Louis | |||
| August 17–31, 2024 | Sinquefield Cup |
Tour rankings
The wildcards (in italics) are not counted in overall standings.
| Player | Superbet Rapid & Blitz | Superbet Chess Classic | SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz | Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz | Sinquefield Cup | Total points | Prize money[4] | |
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| 1 |  Fabiano Caruana (United States)
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| 2 |  Anish Giri (Netherlands)
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| 3 |  Alireza Firouzja (France)
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| 4 |  Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)[a]
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| 5 | Wesley So (United States)
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| 6 |  R Praggnanandhaa (India)
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| 7 |  Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan)
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| 8 | Gukesh D (India)
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| 9 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)
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 Magnus Carlsen (Norway)
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 Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)
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 Wei Yi (China)
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| Arjun Erigaisi (India)
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 Vincent Keymer (Germany)
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 Kirill Shevchenko (Romania)
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| Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania)
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| Vidit Gujrathi (India)
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 Ivan Šarić (Croatia)
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| Levon Aronian (United States)
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| Leinier Domínguez (United States)
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| Leinier Domínguez (United States)
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| Ding Liren (China)
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References
- ^ "2023 Grand Chess Tour Overview".
- ^ "The Grand Chess Tour Returns In 2023". Chess News. January 10, 2023. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
- ^ "2023 GCT Tour Regulations" (PDF).
- ^ https://grandchesstour.org/blog/2023-sinquefield-cup-day-9-recap