Paris Grand Chess Tour 2018

The Paris Grand Chess Tour is the 2nd of 5 stages of the 2018 Grand Chess Tour, in which 9 of the world's best players and wild cards will play for a total prize fund of $1.2 million. The Paris event takes place in the studios of the CANAL+ TV channel in Boulogne-Billancourt and features Caruana, Nakamura, So, MVL, Anand, Aronian, Grischuk, Mamedyarov, Karjakin and wild card Kramnik.

The rapid event is a 10-player single round-robin and features 3 rounds each day on the first 3 days, with a time control of 25 minutes for all moves and a 10-second delay from move 1. The final 2 days are a blitz double round-robin, with 18 rounds of 5 minutes + 3-second delay blitz. Rapid games count double, with 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw.

Official site

Schedule: (UTC)

Round 1    Jun 20, 2018    12:00 
Round 2    Jun 20, 2018    13:30 
Round 3    Jun 20, 2018    15:00 
Round 4    Jun 21, 2018    12:00 
Round 5    Jun 21, 2018    13:30 
Round 6    Jun 21, 2018    15:00 
Round 7    Jun 22, 2018    12:00 
Round 8    Jun 22, 2018    13:30 
Round 9    Jun 22, 2018    15:00 
Round B1    Jun 23, 2018    12:00 
Round B2    Jun 23, 2018    12:30 
Round B3    Jun 23, 2018    13:00 
Round B4    Jun 23, 2018    13:30 
Round B5    Jun 23, 2018    14:00 
Round B6    Jun 23, 2018    14:30 
Round B7    Jun 23, 2018    15:00 
Round B8    Jun 23, 2018    15:30 
Round B9    Jun 23, 2018    16:00 
Round B10    Jun 24, 2018    10:00 
Round B11    Jun 24, 2018    10:30 
Round B12    Jun 24, 2018    11:00 
Round B13    Jun 24, 2018    11:30 
Round B14    Jun 24, 2018    12:00 
Round B15    Jun 24, 2018    12:30 
Round B16    Jun 24, 2018    13:00 
Round B17    Jun 24, 2018    13:30 
Round B18    Jun 24, 2018    14:00

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