Grand Chess Tour 2024

Grand Chess Tour
2024
Tournament information
Dates	May 6–August 31, 2024
Host(s)	Warsaw; Bucharest; Zagreb; St. Louis
Tournament statistics
Most tournament titles	Fabiano Caruana
Prize money leader	Fabiano Caruana ($108,750)
Points leader	Fabiano Caruana (22.25)
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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]

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 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.

Lineup

The lineup for the tour consisted of nine players, including the defending GCT champion Fabiano Caruana.^[4] The 2024 edition is marked by participation of several teenage grandmasters – World Chess Championship 2024 challenger Gukesh D, Candidates Tournament 2024 participant R Praggnanandhaa and World Rapid Chess Championship 2021 winner Nodirbek Abdusattorov.^[5] Among notable absentees are reigning World Chess Champion Ding Liren, highest rated player in the world Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura. However, they are announced as wildcards for certain events.^[6]

	Player	Country	FIDE Rating (February 2024)
1	Fabiano Caruana	United States	2804
2	Alireza Firouzja	France	2760
3	Wesley So	United States	2757
4	Gukesh D	India	2743
5	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	Uzbekistan	2744
6	Ian Nepomniachtchi	FIDE^[a]	2758
7	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	France	2732
8	Anish Giri	Netherlands	2762
9	R Praggnanandhaa	India	2747

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	Fabiano Caruana	Alireza Firouzja Gukesh D R Praggnanandhaa	–
July 8–15, 2024	SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia	Rapid & blitz	Zagreb	Fabiano Caruana	Wesley So Alireza Firouzja Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	–
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	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	—	9.25	13			22.25	$108,750
2	Alireza Firouzja (France)	—	9.25	8.33			17.58	$83,750
3	R Praggnanandhaa (India)	7	9.25	—			16.25	$78,750
4	Gukesh D (India)	1	9.25	4	—		14.25	$75,750
5	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	—	5	8.33			13.33	$46,833
T-6	Anish Giri (Netherlands)	3	5	3	—		11	$39,833
T–6	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	—	5	6			11	$36,833
8	Wesley So (United States)	—	2.5	8.33			10.83	$39,500
9	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan)	5	2.5	—			7.5	$25,500
	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
	Levon Aronian (United States)	—	—	5		—	5	$11,000
	Kirill Shevchenko (Romania)	4	—	—	—	—	4	$10,000
	Vincent Keymer (Germany)	2	—	—	—	—	2	$8,000
	Vidit Gujrathi (India)	—	—	2	—	—	2	$8,000
	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania)	—	1	—	—	—	1	$10,500
	Ivan Šarić (Croatia)	—	—	1	—	—	1	$7,000
	Hikaru Nakamura (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 was held in Warsaw, Poland from May 8 to 13, 2024. Wei Yi was the winner of the rapid portion.^[8] Albeit in consecutive years, Magnus Carlsen won the blitz portion and was the overall winner of the tournament.^[9]

2024 GCT Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, May 8–13 Warsaw, Poland
	Player	Rapid	Blitz	Total	Tour Points	Prize money	Circuit
1	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	12	14	26	WC (13)	$40,000	14.43
2	Wei Yi (CHN)	13	12½	25½	WC (10)	$30,000	10.50
3	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	9	10½	19½	WC (8)	$25,000	9.18
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^[10]
	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^[11]
	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

Superbet Romania Chess Classic

The second leg of the Grand Chess Tour was held in Bucharest, Romania from June 25–5 July, 2024.^[12]

2024 GCT Superbet Chess Classic, June 25–5 July Bucharest, Romania, Category XX (2750)
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	TB	Tour Points	Prize money	Circuit
1	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2805	Does not appear	1	½	½	0	½	½	½	½	1	5	3	9.25	$68,750	21.23
2–4	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2737	0	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	½	1	1	½	5	2	9.25	$58,750	14.70
2–4	Gukesh D (IND)	2763	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	½	½	1	5	1	9.25	$58,750	14.70
2–4	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	2747	½	½	½	Does not appear	1	½	½	½	½	½	5	0	9.25	$58,750	14.70
5–7	Anish Giri (NED)	2745	1	½	½	0	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	½	4½		5	$21,833
5–7	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2732	½	½	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	4½		5	$21,833
5–7	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2770	½	½	½	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	4½		5	$21,833
8–9	Wesley So (USA)	2757	½	0	½	½	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	4		2.5	$14,500
8–9	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)	2766	½	0	½	½	½	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	4		2.5	$14,500
10	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU)	2680	0	½	0	½	½	½	½	½	½	Does not appear	3½		WC (1)	$10,500

First place playoff
Place	Player	Rapid rating	1	2	3	4	Score
1	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2738	Does not appear	1	1	1	3
2	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2724	0	Does not appear	1	1	2
3	Gukesh D (IND)	2647	0	0	Does not appear	1	1
4	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	2709	0	0	0	Does not appear	0

Zagreb Rapid & Blitz

2024 GCT Rapid & Blitz Croatia, July 9–14 Zagreb, Croatia
	Player	Rapid	Blitz	Total	Tour Points	Prize money
1	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	15	12	27	13	$40,000
2	Wesley So (USA)	12	11	23	8.33	$25,000
3	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	10	13	23	8.33	$25,000
4	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	10	13	23	8.33	$25,000
5	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	10	8.5	18.5	6	$15,000
6	Levon Aronian (USA)	11	6	17	WC (5)	$11,000
7	Gukesh D (IND)	9	5	14	4	$10,000
8	Anish Giri (NED)	6	7½	13½	3	$9,000
9	Vidit Gujrathi (IND)	4	7	11	WC (2)	$8,000
10	Ivan Šarić (CRO)	3	7	10	WC (1)	$7,000

2024 GCT Rapid & Blitz Croatia – Rapid, July 10–12 Zagreb, Croatia
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2738	Does not appear	1	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	15
2	Wesley So (USA)	2722	1	Does not appear	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	12
3	Levon Aronian (USA)	2750	0	1	Does not appear	1	1	0	2	2	2	2	11
4	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2754	1	1	1	Does not appear	1	1	0	1	2	2	10
5	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2724	1	1	1	1	Does not appear	1	1	2	0	2	10
6	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2747	0	1	2	1	1	Does not appear	0	1	2	2	10
7	Gukesh D (IND)	2647	0	0	0	2	1	2	Does not appear	1	1	2	9
8	Anish Giri (NED)	2679	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	Does not appear	1	1	6
9	Vidit Gujrathi (IND)	2701	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	Does not appear	0	4
10	Ivan Šarić (CRO)	2614	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	Does not appear	3

2024 GCT Rapid & Blitz Croatia – Blitz, July 13–14 Zagreb, Croatia
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2863	Does not appear										13
2	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2764		Does not appear									13
3	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2777			Does not appear								12
4	Wesley So (USA)	2773				Does not appear							11
5	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2800					Does not appear						8½
6	Anish Giri (NED)	2689						Does not appear					7½
7	Ivan Šarić (CRO)	2601							Does not appear				7
8	Vidit Gujrathi (IND)	2657								Does not appear			7
9	Levon Aronian (USA)	2766									Does not appear		6
10	Gukesh D (IND)	2627										Does not appear	5

References

^ "2024 Grand Chess Tour Overview".
^ "The Grand Chess Tour Returns In 2024". February 23, 2024.
^ "2024 GCT Tour Regulations" (PDF).
^ "2024 Grand Chess Tour".
^ "Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa, Abdusattorov Join 2024 Grand Chess Tour". February 24, 2024.
^ "Grand Chess Tour announces wildcards and full-tour lineup". April 7, 2024.
^ 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.
^ "2024 Superbet Romania Chess Classic". June 9, 2024.

Notes

^ 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.^[7]

[1] "2024 Grand Chess Tour Overview".

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

[3] "2024 GCT Tour Regulations" (PDF).

[4] "2024 Grand Chess Tour".

[5] "Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa, Abdusattorov Join 2024 Grand Chess Tour". February 24, 2024.

[6] "Grand Chess Tour announces wildcards and full-tour lineup". April 7, 2024.

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

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

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

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

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

[13] "2024 Superbet Romania Chess Classic". June 9, 2024.

[flags24-8] 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.^[7]

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