World Chess Federation: 2019 Grand Prix Series: Dates and Qualifiers

2019 Grand Prix Series: Dates and Qualifiers

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.

  PLAYERS QUALIFIED AVERAGE

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
	RESERVE PLAYERS
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

Sources:

FIDE