Grand Chess Tour 2024

Grand Chess Tour
2024
Tournament information
Dates	May 6–August 31, 2024
Tournament statistics
Most tournament titles	Magnus Carlsen (1)
Prize money leader	Magnus Carlsen ($40,000)
Points leader	R Praggnanandhaa (7)
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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

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 money	Rapid & Blitz prize money	GCT Tour bonuses
1st	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

Tournament results

Dates	Tournament Name	Format	Host city	Winner	Runner-Up	Third Place
May 6–13, 2024	Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland	Rapid & blitz	Warsaw	Magnus Carlsen (WC)	Wei Yi (WC)	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (WC)
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	St. Louis

Tour rankings

The wildcards (in italics) are not counted in overall standings.

	Player	POL	ROU	CRO	STL	SIN	Total points	Prize money
1	R Praggnanandhaa (India)	7		—			7	$20,000
2	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan)	5		—			5	$11,000
3	Anish Giri (Netherlands)	3			—		3	$9,000
4	Gukesh D (India)	1			—		1	$7,000
T–5	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	—					0	$0
T–5	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)^[b]	—					0	$0
T–5	Wesley So (United States)	—					0	$0
T–5	Alireza Firouzja (France)	—					0	$0
T–5	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	—					0	$0
	Magnus Carlsen (Norway)	13	—		—	—	13	$40,000
	Wei Yi (China)	10	—	—	—	—	10	$30,000
	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)	8	—	—	—	—	8	$25,000
	Arjun Erigaisi (India)	6	—	—	—	—	6	$15,000
	Kirill Shevchenko (Romania)	4	—	—	—	—	4	$10,000
	Vincent Keymer (Germany)	2	—	—	—	—	2	$8,000
	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

Tournaments

Superbet Rapid and Blitz Poland

The first leg of the Grand Chess Tour is currently being held in Warsaw, Poland from May 8 to 13, 2024. Wei Yi was the winner of the rapid portion.^[6] Albeit in consecutive years, Magnus Carlsen won the blitz portion and was the overall winner of the tournament.^[7]

2024 GCT Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, May 8–13 Warsaw, Poland
	Player	Rapid	Blitz	Total	Tour Points	Prize money
1	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	12	14	26	WC (13)	$40,000
2	Wei Yi (CHN)	13	12½	25½	WC (10)	$30,000
3	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	9	10½	19½	WC (8)	$25,000
4	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	10	9	19	7	$20,000
5	Arjun Erigaisi (IND)	8	10	18	WC (6)	$15,000
6	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)	8	9½	17½	5	$11,000
7	Kirill Shevchenko (ROU)	9	6	15	WC (4)	$10,000
8	Anish Giri (NED)	7	7	14	3	$9,000
9	Vincent Keymer (GER)	7	6	13	WC (2)	$8,000
10	Gukesh D (IND)	7	5½	12½	1	$7,000

2024 GCT Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland – Rapid, May 8–10 Warsaw, Poland^[8]
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Wei Yi (CHN)	2758	Does not appear	0	1	2	2	1	2	1	2	2	13
2	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	2828	2	Does not appear	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	12
3	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	2704	1	1	Does not appear	0	1	1	2	2	2	0	10
4	Kirill Shevchenko (ROU)	2622	0	1	2	Does not appear	1	0	1	2	0	2	9
5	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2748	0	1	1	1	Does not appear	2	1	0	1	2	9
6	Arjun Erigaisi (IND)	2671	1	1	1	2	0	Does not appear	1	0	1	1	8
7	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)	2733	0	0	0	1	1	1	Does not appear	1	2	2	8
8	Vincent Keymer (GER)	2647	1	0	0	0	2	2	1	Does not appear	1	0	7
9	Anish Giri (NED)	2687	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	1	Does not appear	1	7
10	Gukesh D (IND)	2649	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	2	1	Does not appear	7

2024 GCT Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland – Blitz, May 11–12 Warsaw, Poland^[9]
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	2886	Does not appear	½ 1	½ 1	1 ½	0 1	0 1	1 ½	1 1	1 1	1 1	14
2	Wei Yi (CHN)	2684	½ 0	Does not appear	1 0	1 1	1 1	1 0	1 1	1 ½	1 ½	0 1	12½
3	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2766	½ 0	0 1	Does not appear	0 1	1 0	0 ½	½ 1	1 1	1 1	0 1	10½
4	Arjun Erigaisi (IND)	2744	0 ½	0 0	1 0	Does not appear	1 ½	1 1	½ 1	1 0	½ 1	1 0	10
5	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)	2661	1 0	0 0	0 1	0 ½	Does not appear	½ 1	½ 0	1 1	½ 1	1 ½	9½
6	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	2675	1 0	0 1	1 ½	0 0	½ 0	Does not appear	0 1	1 0	0 1	1 1	9
7	Anish Giri (NED)	2715	0 ½	0 0	½ 0	½ 0	½ 1	1 0	Does not appear	0 ½	½ 1	½ ½	7
8	Kirill Shevchenko (ROU)	2546	0 0	0 ½	0 0	0 1	0 0	0 1	1 ½	Does not appear	0 1	1 0	6
9	Vincent Keymer (GER)	2610	0 0	0 ½	0 0	½ 0	½ 0	1 0	½ 0	1 0	Does not appear	1 1	6
10	Gukesh D (IND)	2651	0 0	1 0	1 0	0 1	0 ½	0 0	½ ½	0 1	0 0	Does not appear	5½

References

^ "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
^ "Wei Yi Wins Rapid, Carlsen Still Unbeaten". May 11, 2024.
^ "Magnus Carlsen defeats all 9 players in a row to win Superbet Rapid and Blitz Poland event". May 12, 2024.
^ "Superbet Poland Rapid Tournament". May 12, 2024.
^ "Superbet Poland Blitz Tournament". May 12, 2024.

Notes

^ Magnus Carlsen has scored 13 points as a wildcard, however wildcards are ineligible for the points leaderboard.
^ 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]

[2] "2024 Grand Chess Tour Overview".

[3] "The Grand Chess Tour Returns In 2024". February 23, 2024.

[4] "2024 GCT Tour Regulations" (PDF).

[5] "2024 GCT Tour Event Regulations" (PDF).

[6] FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, February 28, 2022

[8] "Wei Yi Wins Rapid, Carlsen Still Unbeaten". May 11, 2024.

[9] "Magnus Carlsen defeats all 9 players in a row to win Superbet Rapid and Blitz Poland event". May 12, 2024.

[10] "Superbet Poland Rapid Tournament". May 12, 2024.

[11] "Superbet Poland Blitz Tournament". May 12, 2024.

[wildcards-1] Magnus Carlsen has scored 13 points as a wildcard, however wildcards are ineligible for the points leaderboard.

[flags24-7] 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]

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