Grand Chess Tour 2023

Grand Chess Tournament
2023
	2023 Grand Chess Tour winner Fabiano Caruana
Tournament information
Dates	May 4–December 3, 2023
Final positions
Champion	Fabiano Caruana
Runner-up	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
3rd place	Wesley So
Tournament statistics
Most tournament titles	Fabiano Caruana (3)
Prize money leader	Fabiano Caruana ($310,000)
Points leader	Fabiano Caruana (46)
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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]^[2]

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.^[3]^[4]

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.^[5]

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.^[6]

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 21–30, 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	Magnus Carlsen (WC)	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Wesley So
July 3–10, 2023	Croatia Rapid & Blitz	Magnus Carlsen (WC)	Ian Nepomniachtchi	Alireza Firouzja
November 12–19, 2023	Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz	Fabiano Caruana	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	Ian Nepomniachtchi Lê Quang Liêm (WC)
November 21–30, 2023	Sinquefield Cup	Fabiano Caruana	Leinier Domínguez	Wesley So

Tour rankings

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

Pos	Player	ROU	POL	CRO	STL	SIN	Total points	Prize money^[7]
1	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	13		7	13	13	46	$310,000
2	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	4.5	7.5		10	6	28	$148,583
3	Wesley So (United States)	7.75	7.5		4.5	8	27.75	$148,750
4	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)^[a]	2		10	7.5	6	25.5	$91,833
5	Alireza Firouzja (France)	7.75		8	6	3	24.75	$98,750
6	Richárd Rapport (Romania)	7.75	5	5		2	19.75	$77,750
7	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)	4.5	10	3.5			18	$59,250
8	Anish Giri (Netherlands)	7.75	4		2	4	17.75	$79,250
9	Ding Liren (China)^[b]	3					3	$16,000

Wildcards

Player	ROU	POL	CRO	STL	SIN	Total points	Prize money
Magnus Carlsen (Norway)		13	13			26	$80,000
Levon Aronian (United States)		6			6	12	$41,333
Leinier Domínguez (United States)					10	10	$65,000
Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam)				7.5		7.5	$22,500
Gukesh D (India)			6			6	$15,000
Ray Robson (United States)				4.5		4.5	$10,500
Viswanathan Anand (India)			3.5			3.5	$9,500
Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania)	1	2				3	$18,000
Kirill Shevchenko (Romania)		3				3	$9,000
Samuel Sevian (United States)				3		3	$9,000
Ivan Šarić (Croatia)			2			2	$8,000
Radosław Wojtaszek (Poland)		1				1	$7,000
Constantin Lupulescu (Romania)			1			1	$7,000
Jeffery Xiong (United States)				1		1	$7,000

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.^[10]

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	Tour Points	Prize money
1	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2764	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	½	5½	13	$100,000
2	Wesley So (USA)	2760	½	Does not appear	½	½	1	½	½	½	½	½	5	7.75	$42,750
3	Richárd Rapport (ROU)	2745	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	1	½	½	½	½	5	7.75	$42,750
4	Anish Giri (NED)	2768	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	1	½	½	5	7.75	$42,750
5	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2785	½	0	½	½	Does not appear	0	½	1	1	1	5	7.75	$42,750
6	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2724	½	½	0	½	1	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	4½	4.5	$19,750
7	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2742	0	½	½	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	1	½	4½	4.5	$19,750
8	Ding Liren (CHN)	2789	½	½	½	0	0	½	½	Does not appear	½	1	4	3	$16,000
9	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2794	0	½	½	½	0	½	0	½	Does not appear	1	3½	2	$13,000
10	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU)	2700	½	½	½	½	0	½	½	0	0	Does not appear	3	WC (1)	$10,500

Superbet Rapid and Blitz Poland

The second leg of the Grand Chess Tour was held in Warsaw, Poland from May 19 to 26, 2023. Jan-Krzysztof Duda was the winner of the rapid portion, while Magnus Carlsen won the blitz portion, and won the overall tournament.^[11]^[12]

Superbet Rapid and Blitz Poland, May 19–26 Warsaw, Poland
	Player	Rapid	Blitz	Total	Tour Points	Prize money
1	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	10	14	24	WC (13)	$40,000
2	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	13	10	23	10	$30,000
T-3	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	11	10½	21½	7.5	$22,500
T-3	Wesley So (USA)	11	10½	21½	7.5	$22,500
5	Levon Aronian (USA)	12	8½	20½	WC (6)	$15,000
6	Richard Rapport (ROU)	9	9	18	5	$11,000
7	Anish Giri (NED)	7	8	15	4	$10,000
8	Kirill Shevchenko (ROU)	4	9	13	WC (3)	$9,000
9	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU)	6	6½	12½	WC (2)	$8,000
10	Radosław Wojtaszek (POL)	7	4	11	WC (1)	$7,000

Superbet Rapid and Blitz Poland - Rapid, May 21–23 Warsaw, Poland
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2782	Does not appear	1	1	2	1	1	2	2	2	1	13
2	Levon Aronian (USA)	2729	1	Does not appear	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	2	12
3	Wesley So (USA)	2788	1	1	Does not appear	0	1	2	1	1	2	2	11
4	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2762	0	1	2	Does not appear	1	1	1	1	2	2	11
5	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	2839	1	1	1	1	Does not appear	1	1	0	2	2	10
6	Richárd Rapport (ROU)	2767	1	1	0	1	1	Does not appear	1	1	1	2	9
7	Anish Giri (NED)	2714	0	0	1	1	1	1	Does not appear	2	0	1	7
8	Radosław Wojtaszek (POL)	2622	0	0	1	1	2	1	0	Does not appear	1	1	7
9	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU)	2618	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	1	Does not appear	1	6
10	Kirill Shevchenko (ROU)	2602	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	Does not appear	4

Superbet Rapid and Blitz Poland - Blitz, May 24–25 Warsaw, Poland
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	2852	Does not appear	1 1	0 1	1 ½	1 1	1 1	1 ½	1 ½	½ ½	½ 1	14
2	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2723	0 0	Does not appear	½ ½	0 1	½ 0	1 1	½ 1	1 1	0 ½	1 1	10½
3	Wesley So (USA)	2749	1 0	½ ½	Does not appear	½ 0	½ 1	½ ½	1 ½	0 1	1 ½	½ 1	10½
4	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2790	0 ½	1 0	½ 1	Does not appear	½ 1	0 1	0 0	½ 0	1 1	1 1	10
5	Kirill Shevchenko (ROU)	2562	0 0	½ 1	½ 0	½ 0	Does not appear	1 0	0 1	1 ½	1 0	1 1	9
6	Richard Rapport (ROU)	2701	0 0	0 0	½ ½	1 0	0 1	Does not appear	1 ½	1 ½	0 1	1 1	9
7	Levon Aronian (USA)	2804	0 ½	½ 0	0 ½	1 1	1 0	0 ½	Does not appear	0 ½	1 1	½ ½	8½
8	Anish Giri (NED)	2807	0 ½	0 0	1 0	½ 1	0 ½	0 ½	1 ½	Does not appear	0 1	1 ½	8
9	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU)	2649	½ ½	1 ½	0 ½	0 0	0 1	1 0	0 0	1 0	Does not appear	0 ½	6½
10	Radosław Wojtaszek (POL)	2605	½ 0	0 0	½ 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	½ ½	0 ½	1 ½	Does not appear	4

SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia

The third leg of the Grand Chess Tour was held in Zagreb, Croatia from July 5 to 9, 2023. Ian Nepomniachtchi and Fabiano Caruana were the joint winners of the rapid portion, while Magnus Carlsen won the blitz portion, and won the overall tournament.

SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia, July 3–10 Zagreb, Croatia
	Player	Rapid	Blitz	Total	Tour Points	Prize money
1	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	11	15	26	WC (13)	$40,000
2	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	12	10½	22½	10	$30,000
3	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	9	13	22	8	$25,000
4	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	12	9½	21½	7	$20,000
5	Gukesh D (IND)	10	9½	19½	WC (6)	$15,000
6	Richárd Rapport (ROU)	9	10	19	5	$11,000
T-7	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	9	7½	16½	3.5	$9,500
T-7	Viswanathan Anand (IND)	10	6½	16½	WC (3.5)	$9,500
9	Ivan Šarić (CRO)	6	6	12	WC (2)	$8,000
10	Constantin Lupulescu (ROU)	2	2½	4½	WC (1)	$7,000

SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia – Rapid, July 5–7 Zagreb, Croatia
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2760	Does not appear	1	1	1	1	2	2	0	2	2	12
2	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2752	1	Does not appear	2	2	1	1	0	2	1	2	12
3	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	2829	1	0	Does not appear	2	2	0	1	2	1	2	11
4	Gukesh D (IND)	2629	1	0	0	Does not appear	2	1	1	1	2	2	10
5	Viswanathan Anand (IND)	2731	1	1	0	0	Does not appear	1	2	1	2	2	10
6	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2745	0	1	2	1	1	Does not appear	1	0	2	1	9
7	Richárd Rapport (ROU)	2761	0	2	1	1	0	1	Does not appear	2	0	2	9
8	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2794	2	0	0	1	1	2	0	Does not appear	1	2	9
9	Ivan Saric (CRO)	2635	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	Does not appear	1	6
10	Constantin Lupulescu (ROU)	2572	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	Does not appear	2

SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia – Blitz, July 8–9 Zagreb, Croatia
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	2858	Does not appear	1 0	1 1	1 0	1 ½	1 1	1 ½	1 1	1 1	1 1	15
2	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2896	0 1	Does not appear	1 0	0 ½	1 0	1 1	½ 1	1 1	1 1	1 1	13
3	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2781	0 0	0 1	Does not appear	½ ½	½ ½	1 ½	1 1	½ 0	½ 1	1 1	10½
4	Richárd Rapport (ROU)	2707	0 1	1 ½	½ ½	Does not appear	0 1	0 0	1 0	1 ½	0 1	1 1	10
5	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2832	0 ½	0 1	½ ½	1 0	Does not appear	1 0	½ 0	0 1	1 ½	1 1	9½
6	Gukesh D (IND)	2626	0 0	0 0	0 ½	1 1	0 1	Does not appear	1 1	0 1	0 1	1 1	9½
7	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2783	0 ½	½ 0	0 0	0 1	½ 1	0 0	Does not appear	1 0	1 ½	½ 1	7½
8	Viswanathan Anand (IND)	2733	0 0	0 0	½ 1	0 ½	1 0	1 0	0 1	Does not appear	0 ½	½ ½	6½
9	Ivan Saric (CRO)	2576	0 0	0 0	½ 0	1 0	0 ½	1 0	0 ½	1 ½	Does not appear	½ ½	6
10	Constantin Lupulescu (ROU)	2576	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	½ 0	½ ½	½ ½	Does not appear	2½

Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz USA

The fourth leg of the Grand Chess Tour was held in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States from November 12 to 19, 2023.

Saint Louis Grand Chess Tour Rapid, November 14–16 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Ray Robson (United States)	2596	Does not appear	1	1	2	2	1	1	2	0	1	11
2	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	2771	1	Does not appear	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	10
3	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	2765	1	1	Does not appear	1	0	1	2	1	1	2	10
4	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2789	0	1	1	Does not appear	1	1	2	0	2	1	9
5	Alireza Firouzja (France)	2742	0	1	2	1	Does not appear	2	1	0	1	1	9
6	Anish Giri (Netherlands)	2697	1	1	1	1	0	Does not appear	1	2	1	1	9
7	Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam)	2652	1	1	0	0	1	1	Does not appear	1	2	2	9
8	Samuel Sevian (United States)	2581	0	1	1	2	2	0	1	Does not appear	1	1	9
9	Wesley So (United States)	2753	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	Does not appear	1	7
10	Jeffery Xiong (United States)	2727	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	Does not appear	7

Saint Louis Grand Chess Tour Blitz, November 17-18 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
T-1	Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam)	2665	Does not appear	1 1	0 ½	0 1	0 ½	1 1	1 0	1 ½	0 1	½ 1	11
T-1	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	2813	0 0	Does not appear	0 1	½ ½	1 1	1 1	0 ½	1 1	1 1	½ 0	11
T-1	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2785	1 ½	1 0	Does not appear	1 1	0 ½	0 0	1 ½	0 ½	1 1	1 1	11
4	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	2728	1 0	½ ½	0 0	Does not appear	1 0	1 1	1 ½	1 ½	½ ½	1 ½	10½
5	Wesley So (United States)	2760	1 ½	0 0	1 ½	0 1	Does not appear	½ ½	½ ½	1 0	1 ½	1 ½	10
6	Alireza Firouzja (France)	2896	0 0	0 0	1 1	0 0	½ ½	Does not appear	1 ½	1 1	1 0	1 1	9½
7	Samuel Sevian (United States)	2695	0 1	1 ½	0 ½	0 ½	½ ½	0 ½	Does not appear	0 1	½ 1	0 0	7½
8	Anish Giri (Netherlands)	2752	0 ½	0 0	1 ½	0 ½	0 1	0 0	1 0	Does not appear	½ ½	1 ½	7
9	Jeffery Xiong (United States)	2726	1 0	0 0	0 0	½ ½	0 ½	0 1	½ 0	½ ½	Does not appear	½ 1	6½
10	Ray Robson (United States)	2665	½ 0	½ 1	0 0	0 ½	0 ½	0 0	1 1	0 ½	½ 0	Does not appear	6

Final standings

	Player	Points	Tour Points
1	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	21	13
2	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	20½	10
T-3	Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam)	20	7.5
T-3	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	20	7.5
5	Alireza Firouzja (France)	18½	6
T-6	Wesley So (United States)	17	4.5
T-6	Ray Robson (United States)	17	4.5
8	Samuel Sevian (United States)	16½	3
9	Anish Giri (Netherlands)	16	2
10	Jeffery Xiong (United States)	13½	1

Sinquefield Cup

Sinquefield Cup, 21 – 30 November 2023 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, Category XXI (2753.2)
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	Tour Points	Prize money
1	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2795	Does not appear	½	1	½	½	½	½	1	1	–	5½	13	$100,000
2	Leinier Domínguez (USA)	2745	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	–	5	WC (10)	$65,000
3	Wesley So (USA)	2752	0	½	Does not appear	½	½	1	½	½	1	–	4½	8	$48,000
4	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2734	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	½	–	4	6	$26,333
5	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2771	½	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	–	4	6	$26,333
6	Levon Aronian (USA)	2727	½	½	0	½	½	Does not appear	½	1	½	–	4	WC (6)	$26,333
7	Anish Giri (NED)	2752	½	0	½	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	3½	4	$18,500
8	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2777	0	½	½	½	½	0	½	Does not appear	½	–	3	3	$13,000
9	Richárd Rapport (ROU)	2748	0	0	0	½	½	½	½	½	Does not appear	–	2½	2	$13,000
10	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)^[c]	2731	–	–	–	–	–	–	½	–	–	Does not appear	–	–	–

References

^ "2023 Grand Chess Tour Overview".
^ "The Grand Chess Tour Returns In 2023". Chess News. January 10, 2023. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
^ "Firouzja returns as 2023 Grand Chess Tour field announced".
^ Sergio (March 29, 2023). "Grand Chess Tour 2023 with a dream lineup – Chessdom". www.chessdom.com. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
^ "2023 GCT Tour Regulations" (PDF).
^ "2023 Grand Chess Tour: St. Louis Events Moved To November–December".
^ https://grandchesstour.org/blog/2023-sinquefield-cup-day-9-recap
^ FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, February 28, 2022
^ Starting Sunday: Carlsen heads intriguing field in Superbet Poland, ChessBase, May 20, 2023
^ "Caruana Wins Superbet Classic, Takes Grand Chess Tour Lead".
^ "2023 GCT Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland: Day 3 Recap". May 24, 2023.
^ McGourty, Colin. "Duda wins Superbet Rapid, Magnus back in business".

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.^[8]
^ Ding withdrew before the Poland Rapid and Blitz event took place, citing fatigue. As a result of this change, Levon Aronian was chosen as a wildcard to replace him for the event.^[9]
^ Jan-Krzysztof Duda withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup after round 1 due to illness; his round 1 result was not counted towards the standings.

[1] "2023 Grand Chess Tour Overview".

[2] "The Grand Chess Tour Returns In 2023". Chess News. January 10, 2023. Retrieved September 27, 2023.

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

[4] Sergio (March 29, 2023). "Grand Chess Tour 2023 with a dream lineup – Chessdom". www.chessdom.com. Retrieved September 27, 2023.

[5] "2023 GCT Tour Regulations" (PDF).

[6] "2023 Grand Chess Tour: St. Louis Events Moved To November–December".

[7] ttps://grandchesstour.org/blog/2023-sinquefield-cup-day-9-recap

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

[10] Starting Sunday: Carlsen heads intriguing field in Superbet Poland, ChessBase, May 20, 2023

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

[13] "2023 GCT Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland: Day 3 Recap". May 24, 2023.

[14] McGourty, Colin. "Duda wins Superbet Rapid, Magnus back in business".

[flags-9] 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.^[8]

[ding-11] Ding withdrew before the Poland Rapid and Blitz event took place, citing fatigue. As a result of this change, Levon Aronian was chosen as a wildcard to replace him for the event.^[9]

[duda-sinquefiend-15] Jan-Krzysztof Duda withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup after round 1 due to illness; his round 1 result was not counted towards the standings.

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