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2019 Grand Prix Series: Dates and Qualifiers |
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Friday, 25 January 2019 14:08 |
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FIDE and World Chess are pleased to announce the 2019 Grand Prix Series dates. There will be four exciting knock-out events:
1st leg: May 16th – 30th;
2nd leg: July 11th – 25th;
3rd leg: November 4th – 18th;
4th leg: December 10th – 24th.
Two winners will qualify for the 2020 Candidates Tournament. Total prize for each event will be EUR 130,000. In addition, EUR 280,000 Prize Fund to be awarded based on the best cumulative score in the entire Series.
FIDE publishes the list of qualified players and 12 reserves. Players will have 7 days to sign the contract after FIDE publishes the contract as well as Rules and Regulations and the list of cities which will host the Series.
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PLAYERS QUALIFIED |
AVERAGE |
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| 1 |
Magnus Carlsen |
2840,17 |
| 2 |
Fabiano Caruana |
2816,67 |
| 3 |
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov |
2812,17 |
| 4 |
Ding Liren |
2795,75 |
| 5 |
Vladimir Kramnik |
2786,33 |
| 6 |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
2783,83 |
| 7 |
Anish Giri |
2779,75 |
| 8 |
Wesley So |
2778,92 |
| 9 |
Levon Aronian |
2773,08 |
| 10 |
Viswanathan Anand |
2770,58 |
| 11 |
Alexander Grischuk |
2767,92 |
| 12 |
Hikaru Nakamura |
2767,83 |
| 13 |
Sergey Karjakin |
2766,08 |
| 14 |
Yu Yangyi |
2761,42 |
| 15 |
Ian Nepomniachtchi |
2758 |
| 16 |
Peter Svidler |
2751,75 |
| 17 |
Teimour Radjabov |
2751,75 |
| 18 |
Veselin Topalov |
2744,58 |
| 19 |
Dmitry Jakovenko |
2739,75 |
| 20 |
David Navara |
2737,5 |
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RESERVE PLAYERS |
AVERAGE |
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| 1 |
Radoslaw Wojtaszek |
2734,5 |
| 2 |
Wei Yi |
2733,92 |
| 3 |
Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
2733 |
| 4 |
Pentala Harikrishna |
2732,92 |
| 5 |
Nikita Vitiugov |
2726,92 |
| 6 |
Le Quang Liem |
2723,67 |
| 7 |
Bu Xiangzhi |
2719,67 |
| 8 |
Richard Rapport |
2719,33 |
| 9 |
Li Chao b |
2716,25 |
| 10 |
Wang Hao |
2715,33 |
| 11 |
Vladimir Fedoseev |
2713,33 |
| 12 |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
2713,17 |
The Grand Prix Series will be featured on Eurosport.
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