Grand Chess Tour 2023

Grand Chess Tournament
2023
Tournament information
Dates	May 4–December 3, 2023
Tournament statistics
Most tournament titles	Fabiano Caruana (1)
Prize money leader	Fabiano Caruana ($100,000)
Points leader	Fabiano Caruana (13)

The Grand Chess Tour 2023 is a series of chess tournaments, which is the eighth 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]

The lineup for the tour consisted of nine players, including the World Chess Champion Ding Liren, the World Chess Championship 2023 runner-up Ian Nepomniachtchi, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, the defending champion Alireza Firouzja, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Richárd Rapport.[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 was counted in overall standings.[3]

The tour points were awarded as follows:

Place	Points
1st	12/13*
2nd	10
3rd	8
4th	7
5th	6
6th	5
7th	4
8th	3
9th	2
10th	1

If a player wins 1st place outright (without the need for a playoff), they are awarded 13 points instead of 12.
Tour points are shared equally between tied players.

Schedule

The events in St. Louis are set to take place during the months of November and December, compared to the previous editions where they took place during the months of August and September. The change was implemented to avoid scheduling clashes with the 2023 Chess World Cup and the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament.[4]

Dates	Tournament Name	Host city
May 4–16, 2023	Superbet Chess Classic	Bucharest
May 19–26, 2023	Superbet Rapid & Blitz	Warsaw
July 3–10, 2023	SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz	Zagreb
November 12–19, 2023	Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz	St. Louis
November 19–December 3, 2023	Sinquefield Cup	St. Louis

Results

Tournament results

Dates	Tournament Name	Winner	Runner-Up	Third place
May 4–16, 2023	Superbet Chess Classic	Fabiano Caruana	Wesley So	Richárd Rapport
May 19–26, 2023	Poland Rapid & Blitz
July 3–10, 2023	Croatia Rapid & Blitz
November 12–19, 2023	Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz
November 19–3 December 2023	Sinquefield Cup

Tour rankings

Player	Superbet Chess Classic Romania	Total points	Prize money
Fabiano Caruana (United States)	13	13	$100,000
Alireza Firouzja (France)	7.8	7.8	$42,750
Wesley So (United States)	7.8	7.8	$42,750
Anish Giri (Netherlands)	7.8	7.8	$42,750
Richárd Rapport (Romania)	7.8	7.8	$42,750
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	4.5	4.5	$19,750
Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)	4.5	4.5	$19,750
Ding Liren (China)	3	3	$16,000
Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)[lower-alpha 1]	2	2	$13,000
Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania)	1 (WC)	1	$10,000
Magnus Carlsen (Norway)
Levon Aronian (United States)
Radosław Wojtaszek (Poland)
Kirill Shevchenko (Romania)
Viswanathan Anand (India)
Ivan Šarić (Croatia)
Gukesh D (India)
Constantin Lupulescu (Romania)

Tournaments

Superbet Chess Classic

The first leg of the Grand Chess Tour was held in Bucharest, Romania from May 4–16, 2023. The winner of the tournament was Fabiano Caruana.[6]

Superbet Chess Classic, May 4–16 Bucharest, Romania, Category XXI (2757.1)
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	SB	Tour Points
1	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	2764	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	½	5½		13
2	Wesley So (United States)	2760	½	Does not appear	½	½	1	½	½	½	½	½	5	22.50	7.8
3	Richárd Rapport (Romania)	2745	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	1	½	½	½	½	5	22.25	7.8
4	Anish Giri (Netherlands)	2768	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	1	½	½	5	22.00	7.8
5	Alireza Firouzja (France)	2785	½	0	½	½	Does not appear	0	½	1	1	1	5	20.50	7.8
6	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)	2724	½	½	0	½	1	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	4½	20.25	4.5
7	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	2742	0	½	½	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	1	½	4½	19.25	4.5
8	Ding Liren (China)	2789	½	½	½	0	0	½	½	Does not appear	½	1	4		3
9	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2794	0	½	½	½	0	½	0	½	Does not appear	1	3½		2
10	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania)	2700	½	½	½	½	0	½	½	0	0	Does not appear	3		1

Superbet Rapid and Blitz Poland

The second leg of the Grand Chess Tour will be held in Warsaw, Poland from May 19 to 26, 2023.

Poland Grand Chess Tour Rapid, May 19–22, 2023, Warsaw, Poland
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1	Magnus Carlsen (Norway)	2839	Does not appear
2	Wesley So (United States)	2788		Does not appear
3	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)	2782			Does not appear
4	Richárd Rapport (Romania)	2767				Does not appear
5	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	2762					Does not appear
6	Levon Aronian (United States)	2729						Does not appear
7	Anish Giri (Netherlands)	2714							Does not appear
8	Radosław Wojtaszek (Poland)	2622								Does not appear
9	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania)	2618									Does not appear
10	Kirill Shevchenko (Romania)	2602										Does not appear

Poland Grand Chess Tour Blitz, May 23–26, 2023, Warsaw, Poland
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1	Magnus Carlsen (Norway)	2852	Does not appear
2	Anish Giri (Netherlands)	2807		Does not appear
3	Levon Aronian (United States)	2804			Does not appear
4	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)	2790				Does not appear
5	Wesley So (United States)	2749					Does not appear
6	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	2723						Does not appear
7	Richárd Rapport (Romania)	2701							Does not appear
8	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania)	2649								Does not appear
9	Radosław Wojtaszek (Poland)	2605									Does not appear
10	Kirill Shevchenko (Romania)	2562										Does not appear

Final standings

	Player	Points
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

References

Notes

Russian players' flags are displayed as the FIDE flag due to FIDE banning Russian and Belarusian flags from FIDE-rated events in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[5]

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[1] "2023 Grand Chess Tour Overview".

[2] "Firouzja returns as 2023 Grand Chess Tour field announced".

[3] "2023 GCT Tour Regulations" (PDF).

[4] "2023 Grand Chess Tour: St. Louis Events Moved To November–December".

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

[7] "Caruana Wins Superbet Classic, Takes Grand Chess Tour Lead".

[flags-6] Russian players' flags are displayed as the FIDE flag due to FIDE banning Russian and Belarusian flags from FIDE-rated events in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[5]