Grand Chess Tour 2023

The Grand Chess Tour 2023 was a series of chess tournaments, which was the eighth 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.^[1][2]

2023 Grand Chess Tour

2023
2023 Grand Chess Tour winner Fabiano Caruana
Tournament information
Dates	May 4–December 3, 2023
Host(s)	Bucharest Warsaw Zagreb St. Louis
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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Format

The tour consisted 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	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 field was announced on February 22, 2023. It consisted of nine players, including both participants of World Chess Championship 2023, eventual winner Ding Liren and runner-up Ian Nepomniachtchi, as well as defending Grand Chess Tour champion Alireza Firouzja.^[4][5][6]

	Player	Country	FIDE rating (February 2023)
1	Alireza Firouzja	France	2785
2	Wesley So	United States	2766
3	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	France	2737
4	Ian Nepomniachtchi	FIDE[lower-alpha 1]	2793
5	Ding Liren	China	2788
6	Anish Giri	Netherlands	2780
7	Fabiano Caruana	United States	2766
8	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	Poland	2729
9	Richárd Rapport	Romania	2740

Schedule

The events in St. Louis took 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.^[7]

Dates	Tournament Name	Format	Host city
May 4–16, 2023	Superbet Chess Classic	Classical	Bucharest
May 19–26, 2023	Superbet Rapid & Blitz	Rapid & Blitz	Warsaw
July 3–10, 2023	SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz	Rapid & Blitz	Zagreb
November 12–19, 2023	Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz	Rapid & Blitz	St. Louis
November 21–30, 2023	Sinquefield Cup	Classical

Results

Tournament results

Dates	Tournament Name	Winner	Runner-Up	Third place
May 4–16, 2023	Superbet Chess Classic	Fabiano Caruana	Wesley So Richárd Rapport Anish Giri Alireza Firouzja	–
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 (WC)	Wesley So

Tour rankings

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

	Player	ROU	POL	CRO	STL	SIN	Total points	Prize money[8]
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)[lower-alpha 1]	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	—	w/d	18	$59,250
8	Anish Giri (Netherlands)	7.75	4	—	2	4	17.75	$79,250
9	Ding Liren (China)[lower-alpha 2]	3	—	—	—	—	3	$16,000
	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.^[11]

2023 GCT 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	TB	Tour Points	Prize money	Circuit
1	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2764	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	½	5½		13	$100,000	26.84
2	Wesley So (USA)	2760	½	Does not appear	½	½	1	½	½	½	½	½	5		7.75	$42,750	17.44
3	Richárd Rapport (ROU)	2745	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	1	½	½	½	½	5		7.75	$42,750	17.44
4	Anish Giri (NED)	2768	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	1	½	½	5		7.75	$42,750	17.44
5	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2785	½	0	½	½	Does not appear	0	½	1	1	1	5		7.75	$42,750	17.44
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.^[12][13]

2023 GCT Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, May 19–26 Warsaw, Poland

	Player	Rapid	Blitz	Total	TB	Tour Points	Prize money	Circuit
1	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	10	14	24		WC (13)	$40,000	12.73
2	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	13	10	23		10	$30,000	10.19
T-3	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	11	10½	21½		7.5	$22,500	8.28
T-3	Wesley So (USA)	11	10½	21½		7.5	$22,500	8.28
5	Levon Aronian (USA)	12	8½	20½		WC (6)	$15,000	6.37
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

2023 GCT Superbet Rapid & 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

2023 GCT Superbet Rapid & 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.

2023 GCT SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia, July 3–10 Zagreb, Croatia

	Player	Rapid	Blitz	Total	TB	Tour Points	Prize money	Circuit
1	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	11	15	26		WC (13)	$40,000	13.47
2	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	12	10½	22½		10	$30,000	10.78
3	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	9	13	22		8	$25,000	9.43
4	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	12	9½	21½		7	$20,000	8.08
5	Gukesh D (IND)	10	9½	19½		WC (6)	$15,000	6.73
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

2023 GCT SuperUnited Rapid & 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

2023 GCT SuperUnited Rapid & 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

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

2023 GCT Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, November 12–19 Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

	Player	Rapid	Blitz	Total	TB	Tour Points	Prize money	Circuit
1	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	10	11	21		13	$40,000	12.55
2	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	10	10½	20½		10	$30,000	10.04
T-3	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	9	11	20		7.5	$22,500	8.16
T-3	Lê Quang Liêm (VIE)	9	11	20		WC (7.5)	$22,500	8.16
5	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	9	9½	18½		6	$15,000	6.28
T-6	Wesley So (USA)	7	10	17		4.5	$10,500
T-6	Ray Robson (USA)	11	6	17		WC (4.5)	$10,500
8	Samuel Sevian (USA)	9	7½	16½		WC (3)	$9,000
9	Anish Giri (NED)	9	7	16		2	$8,000
10	Jeffery Xiong (USA)	7	6½	13½		WC (1)	$7,000

2023 GCT Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz – 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 (USA)	2596	Does not appear	1	1	2	2	1	1	2	0	1	11
2	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2771	1	Does not appear	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	10
3	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	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 (FRA)	2742	0	1	2	1	Does not appear	2	1	0	1	1	9
6	Anish Giri (NED)	2697	1	1	1	1	0	Does not appear	1	2	1	1	9
7	Lê Quang Liêm (VIE)	2652	1	1	0	0	1	1	Does not appear	1	2	2	9
8	Samuel Sevian (USA)	2581	0	1	1	2	2	0	1	Does not appear	1	1	9
9	Wesley So (USA)	2753	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	Does not appear	1	7
10	Jeffery Xiong (USA)	2727	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	Does not appear	7

2023 GCT Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz – 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 (VIE)	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 (USA)	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 (FRA)	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 (USA)	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 (FRA)	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 (USA)	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 (NED)	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 (USA)	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 (USA)	2665	½ 0	½ 1	0 0	0 ½	0 ½	0 0	1 1	0 ½	½ 0	Does not appear	6

Sinquefield Cup

2023 GCT Sinquefield Cup, November 21–30, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, Category XXI (2753.2)

	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	TB	Tour Points	Prize money	Circuit
1	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2795	Does not appear	½	1	½	½	½	½	1	1	–	5½		13	$100,000	25.93
2	Leinier Domínguez (USA)	2745	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	–	5		WC (10)	$65,000	20.74
3	Wesley So (USA)	2752	0	½	Does not appear	½	½	1	½	½	1	–	4½		8	$48,000	18.15
4	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2734	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	½	–	4		6	$26,333	5.19
5	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2771	½	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	–	4		6	$26,333	5.19
6	Levon Aronian (USA)	2727	½	½	0	½	½	Does not appear	½	1	½	–	4		WC (6)	$26,333	5.19
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)[lower-alpha 3]	2731	–	–	–	–	–	–	½	–	–	Does not appear	–		–	–

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Notes

1. 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.^[9]
2. 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.^[10]
3. Jan-Krzysztof Duda withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup after round 1 due to illness; his round 1 result was not counted towards the standings.