2017 Grand Chess Tour is held in Paris, France from 21nd till 23 June, 2017.
The 2017 Grand Chess Tour is a series of five chess tournaments held throughout the year and across the globe. Grand Chess Tour boasts an impressive $1.2 million prize fund. Nine players were selected as full 2017 Grand Chess Tour participants. They will play both classic events and two of the three rapid and blitz events.
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Paris is the first stop of the 2017 Grand Chess Tour.
The participants will play 9 games of rapid chess and 18 games of blitz for a total prize fund of $150,000!
Grand Chess Tour - Paris (Rapid) 2017
Players: Magnus Carlsen • Hikaru Nakamura • Wesley So • Maxime Vachier-Lagrave • Sergey Karjakin • Fabiano Caruana • Alexander Grischuk (WC) • Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (WC) • Veselin Topalov (WC)• Etienne Bacrot (WC)
Rate of play: 25 minutes all moves + 10 seconds delay from move 1
Schedule : * CEST (UTC/GMT +2)
21 June, 2017 (Wednesday)
14.00 - Round 1
15.30 - Round 2
17.00 - Round 3
22 June, 2017 (Thursday)
14.00 - Round 4
15.30 - Round 5
17.00 - Round 6
23 June, 2017 (Friday)
14.00 - Round 7
15.30 - Round 8
17.00 - Round 9
Grand Chess Tour - Paris (Blitz) 2017
Players: Magnus Carlsen • Hikaru Nakamura • Fabiano Caruana • Maxime Vachier-Lagrave • Sergey Karjakin • Wesley So • Alexander Grischuk • Shakhriyar Mamedyarov • Veselin Topalov • Etienne Bacrot
System of play: 18 Rounds - 10 Player Double Round Robin
Rate of play: 5 minutes all moves +; 3 seconds delay from move 1
Schedule : * CEST (UTC/GMT +2)
24 June, 2017 (Saturday)
14.00 - Round 01
14.30 - Round 02
15.00 - Round 03
15.30 - Round 04
16.00 - Round 05
16.30 - Round 06
17.00 - Round 07
17.30 - Round 08
18.00 - Round 09
25 June, 2017 (Sunday)
12.00 - Round 10
12.30 - Round 11
13.00 - Round 12
13.30 - Round 13
14.00 - Round 14
14.30 - Round 15
15.00 - Round 16
15.30 - Round 17
16.00 - Round 18
16:30 - Playoff (if applicable)
Follow the tournaments live on ChessBomb.
