The World Chess FIDE Grand Prix 2017 is a series of four chess tournaments that form part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2018. The top two finishers will qualify for the 2018 Candidates Tournament.
There are four tournaments in the cycle; each consists of 18 players. 24 players in total were selected to compete in the tournaments, and each player will compete in three of the four tournaments.
there are 18 participants of the first Grand Prix tournament:
1) Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2796
2) Aronian, Levon 2785
3) Nakamura, Hikaru 2785
4) Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2766
5) Ding, Liren 2760
6) Eljanov, Pavel 2759
7) Adams, Michael 2751
8) Nepomniachtchi, Ian 2749
9) Grischuk, Alexander 2742
10) Li, Chao b 2720
11) Tomashevsky, Evgeny 2711
12) Jakovenko, Dmitry 2709
13) Vallejo Pons, Francisco 2709
14) Rapport, Richard 2692
15) Riazantsev, Alexander 2671
16) Salem, A.R. Saleh 2656
17) Hou, Yifan 2651
18) Hammer, Jon Ludvig 2628
The games will start daily from 15:00 local time. The rest day is on 23rd February.
watch it on: https://worldchess.com/gp2017/ or chess24.com
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