Grand Chess Tour 2024
The Grand Chess Tour 2024 was a series of chess tournaments, which was the ninth edition of the Grand [Chess Tour]. It consisted 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.
Format
The tour featured five tournaments, two classicals and three rapid & blitz, respectively. Rapid & Blitz tournaments consisted of two parts – rapid and blitz. Combined result for both portions will count in overall standings.The tour points are to be awarded as follows:
- If a player wins 1st place outright, 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. 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. 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.| Player | Country | FIDE Rating | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fabiano Caruana | 2804 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alireza Firouzja | 2760 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wesley So | 2757 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gukesh Dommaraju | 2743 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 2744 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ian Nepomniachtchi |  FIDEefn|name="flags24"|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.FRANEDINDResultsTournament results
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