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[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 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[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	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[edit]

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[edit]

Superbet Rapid and Blitz Poland[edit]

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[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
^ "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[edit]

^ 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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