Draft:Grand Chess Tour 2025

Grand Chess Tour
2025
Tournament information
Sport	Chess
Dates	April 24–October 4
Number of; tournaments	6
Host(s)	Warsaw; Bucharest; Zagreb; St. Louis; São Paulo
Defending champions	Alireza Firouzja
Tournament statistics
Most tournament titles	Vladimir Fedoseev (1)
Prize money leader	Vladimir Fedoseev ($40,000)
Points leader	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (10)
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The Grand Chess Tour 2025 is a series of chess tournaments, which is the tenth edition of the Grand Chess Tour. It consists of six tournaments with a total prize pool of US$1.6 million, including two tournaments with classical time control and three tournaments with faster time controls, as well as the GCT Finals in São Paulo, which will be held for the first time since 2019.^[1]^[2] It marks the tenth anniversary of the Grand Chess Tour.^[3]

Format

The tour will consist of six tournaments. Rapid & Blitz tournaments consisted of two parts – rapid (2 points for win, 1 for draw) and blitz (1 point for win, 0.5 for draw). Combined result for both portions will count in overall standings. Top four after 5 tournaments will qualify to the tour finals in São Paulo.^[4]

In the finals, players will play matches consisting of 2 classical games, 2 rapid games and 4 blitz games. 6 points will be awarded for a win, 3 points for a draw and 0 points for a loss in classical play. In the rapid games, 4 points will be awarded for a win, 2 points for a draw, and 0 points for a loss. In the blitz games, 2 points were awarded for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 point for a loss.^[4]

The tour points are to be awarded as follows:

Place	Tour Points	Classical prize money	Rapid & Blitz prize money	GCT Finals prize money
1st	12/13*	$100,000	$40,000	$150,000
2nd	10	$65,000	$30,000	$100,000
3rd	8	$48,000	$25,000	$60,000
4th	7	$32,000	$20,000	$40,000
5th	6	$26,000	$15,000
6th	5	$21,000	$11,000
7th	4	$18,500	$10,000
8th	3	$16,000	$9,000
9th	2	$13,000	$8,000
10th	1	$10,500	$7,000

If a player wins 1st place outright (without the need for a playoff), they are awarded 13 points instead of 12.
Tour points and prize money are shared equally between tied players.

Lineup

The lineup for the tour was announced on February 26, 2025. It consisted of nine players, including top-three finishers of previous edition. Remaining six players were selected, based on several factors, including URS, FIDE rating, "fighting spirit and sportsmanship".^[5]

Player	Country	FIDE Rating (February 2025)
Fabiano Caruana	United States	2803
Gukesh Dommaraju	India	2777
Nodirbek Abdusattorov	Uzbekistan	2766
Alireza Firouzja	France	2760
Wesley So	United States	2747
Levon Aronian	United States	2745
R Praggnanandhaa	India	2741
Jan-Krzysztof Duda	Poland	2739
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	France	2729

Results

Tournament results

Dates	Tournament Name	Format	Host city	Winner	Runner-Up	Third Place
April 24–May 1, 2025	Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland	Rapid & blitz	Warsaw	Vladimir Fedoseev (WC)	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	R Praggnanandhaa
May 5–17, 2025	Superbet Chess Classic Romania	Classical	Bucharest
June 30–July 7, 2025	SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia	Rapid & blitz	Zagreb
August 9–16, 2025	Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz	Rapid & blitz	St. Louis
August 16–29, 2025	Sinquefield Cup	Classical	St. Louis
September 25–October 4, 2025	Grand Chess Tour Grand Finals	Knockout	São Paulo

Tour rankings

The wildcards (in italics) are not counted in overall standings.

	Player	POL	ROU	CRO	STL	SIN	Total points	Finals	Prize money
1	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	10		—			10		$30,000
2	R Praggnanandhaa (India)	8			—		8		$25,000
3	Levon Aronian (United States)	7		—			7		$20,000
4	Alireza Firouzja (France)	6			—		6		$15,000
5	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)	3.5			—		3.5		$9,500
T-6	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	—
T-6	Gukesh Dommaraju (India)	—
T-6	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan)	—
T-6	Wesley So (United States)	—
	Vladimir Fedoseev (Slovenia)	13	—	—	—	—	13	—	$40,000
	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania)	5		—	—	—	5	—	$11,000
	Aravindh Chithambaram (India)	3.5	—	—	—	—	3.5	—	$9,500
	David Gavrilescu (Romania)	2	—	—	—	—	2	—	$8,000
	Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria)	1	—	—	—	—	1	—	$7,000
	Magnus Carlsen (Norway)	—	—		—	—		—
	Anish Giri (Netherlands)	—	—		—	—		—
	Ivan Šarić (Croatia)	—	—		—	—		—

Tournaments

Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland

The first leg of the Grand Chess Tour was held in Warsaw, Poland from April 26–30. Vladimir Fedoseev won the tournament with three rounds to spare, while Vachier-Lagrave took the tour lead.^[6]^[7]^[8] Praggnanandhaa's third place finish saw him take the lead in the 2025 FIDE Circuit standings, surpassing Ding Liren.^[9]^[10]

2025 GCT Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, April 26–30 Warsaw, Poland
	Player	Rapid	Blitz	Total	Tour Points	Prize money	Circuit
1	Vladimir Fedoseev (SLO)	11	15½	26½	WC (13)	$40,000	13.26
2	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	9	12½	21½	10	$30,000	9.64
3	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	10	10½	20½	8	$25,000	8.44
4	Levon Aronian (USA)	10	10	20	7	$20,000
5	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	11	7½	19½	6	$15,000
6	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU)	8	10	18	WC (5)	$11,000
T-7	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	8	9	17	3½	$9,500
T-7	Aravindh Chithambaram (IND)	11	6	17	WC (3½)	$9,500
9	David Gavrilescu (ROU)	7	4	11	WC (2)	$8,000
10	Veselin Topalov (BUL)	5	5	10	WC (1)	$7,000

2025 GCT Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland – Rapid, April 26–28 Warsaw, Poland
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Vladimir Fedoseev (SLO)	2739	Does not appear	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	11
2	Aravindh Chithambaram (IND)	2550	1	Does not appear	2	0	2	0	1	2	1	2	11
3	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2754	1	0	Does not appear	2	1	1	2	1	1	2	11
4	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	2684	1	2	0	Does not appear	1	2	0	2	2	0	10
5	Levon Aronian (USA)	2752	1	0	1	1	Does not appear	1	2	1	1	2	10
6	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2745	1	2	1	0	1	Does not appear	1	1	2	0	9
7	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU)	2630	1	1	0	2	0	1	Does not appear	0	1	2	8
8	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2731	0	0	1	0	1	1	2	Does not appear	1	2	8
9	David Gavrilescu (ROU)	2506	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	Does not appear	2	7
10	Veselin Topalov (BUL)	2632	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	Does not appear	5

2025 GCT Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland – Blitz, April 29–30 Warsaw, Poland
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Vladimir Fedoseev (SLO)	2675	Does not appear	1 1	½ 1	1 ½	1 1	1 0	½ 1	1 1	1 1	1 1	15½
2	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2748	0 0	Does not appear	0 1	1 1	1 ½	0 1	1 ½	½ 1	1 1	1 1	12½
3	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	2717	½ 0	1 0	Does not appear	0 0	0 0	0 1	1 1	1 1	1 1	1 1	10½
4	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU)	2629	0 ½	0 0	1 1	Does not appear	1 ½	1 ½	½ 1	0 0	1 1	½ ½	10
5	Levon Aronian (USA)	2761	0 0	0 ½	1 1	0 ½	Does not appear	0 ½	1 0	½ 1	1 1	1 1	10
6	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2785	0 1	1 0	1 0	0 ½	1 ½	Does not appear	1 0	0 1	0 0	1 1	9
7	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2857	½ 0	0 ½	0 0	½ 0	0 1	0 1	Does not appear	1 1	0 1	1 0	7½
8	Aravindh Chithambaram (IND)	2622	0 0	½ 0	0 0	1 1	½ 0	1 0	0 0	Does not appear	0 1	½ ½	6
9	Veselin Topalov (BUL)	2657	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	1 1	1 0	1 0	Does not appear	0 1	5
10	David Gavrilescu (ROU)	2506	0 0	0 0	0 0	½ ½	0 0	0 0	0 1	½ ½	1 0	Does not appear	4

Superbet Chess Classic Romania

The second leg of the 2025 Grand Chess Tour will be held in Bucharest, Romania from May 7–16.

2025 GCT Superbet Chess Classic, May 7–16 Bucharest, Romania
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1	Gukesh Dommaraju (IND)	2787	Does not appear
2	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2776		Does not appear
3	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)	2771			Does not appear
4	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	2758				Does not appear
5	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2757					Does not appear
6	Wesley So (USA)	2751						Does not appear
7	Levon Aronian (USA)	2747							Does not appear
8	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2739								Does not appear
9	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2723									Does not appear
10	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU)	2668										Does not appear

SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia

The third leg of the Grand Chess Tour will be held in Zagreb, Croatia from July 2–6.^[11]

2025 GCT SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia, July 2–6 Zagreb, Croatia
	Player	Rapid	Blitz	Total	TB	Tour Points	Prize money
1	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)
2	Gukesh Dommaraju (IND)
3	Fabiano Caruana (USA)
4	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)
5	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)
6	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)
7	Wesley So (USA)
8	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)
9	Anish Giri (NED)
10	Ivan Šarić (CRO)

2025 GCT SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia – Rapid, July 2–4 Zagreb, Croatia
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	2819	Does not appear
2	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2756			Does not appear
3	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2753						Does not appear
4	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)	2732				Does not appear
5	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2718								Does not appear
6	Wesley So (USA)	2714							Does not appear
7	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	2688					Does not appear
8	Anish Giri (NED)	2688									Does not appear
9	Gukesh Dommaraju (IND)	2654		Does not appear
10	Ivan Šarić (CRO)	2597										Does not appear

2025 GCT SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia – Blitz, July 5–6 Zagreb, Croatia
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	2883	Does not appear
2	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2857						Does not appear
3	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2785								Does not appear
4	Wesley So (USA)	2783							Does not appear
5	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2782			Does not appear
6	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	2717					Does not appear
7	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)	2694				Does not appear
8	Anish Giri (NED)	2663									Does not appear
9	Gukesh Dommaraju (IND)	2615		Does not appear
10	Ivan Šarić (CRO)	2615										Does not appear

Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz

The fourth leg of the Grand Chess Tour will be held in St. Louis, United States from August 11–15.^[11]

Sinquefield Cup

The fifth leg of the Grand Chess Tour will be held in St. Louis, United States from August 18–28.^[11]

Grand Finals

In 2025, the GCT Finals will return in São Paulo, Brazil from September 26–October 4. It will be the first GCT Finals since the 2019 tour.^[12]

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References

^ Machuca, Danny (December 6, 2024). "GRAND CHESS TOUR 2025 SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED". Grand Chess Tour. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
^ McGourty, Colin (March 3, 2025). "Gukesh Tops 2025 Grand Chess Tour Line-up, Sao Paulo Finals Added". Chess.com. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
^ "Grand Chess Tour celebrates tenth anniversary with elite field". ChessBase. March 2, 2025. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
^ ^a ^b "2025 GCT Full Regulations" (PDF).
^ Machuca, Danny (February 26, 2025). "2025 Grand Chess Tour Celebrates its 10th Anniversary with Elite Field Battling for $1.6 Million in Prize Money with return of the GCT Finals". Grand Chess Tour. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
^ Colodro, Carlos Alberto (May 1, 2025). "Vladimir Fedoseev convincingly wins Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland". ChessBase. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
^ Levin, Anthony (April 30, 2025). "Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland: Fedoseev Wins With 3 Rounds To Spare". Chess.com. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
^ PTI (May 1, 2025). "Superbet Rapid and Blitz: Praggnanandhaa finishes third". The New Indian Express. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
^ "FIDE Circuit: Pragg seizes the lead, Fedoseev and Ivanchuk among top five". ChessBase. May 1, 2025. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
^ "Indian GM R Praggnanandhaa reacts to finishing third in Superbet Rapid Blitz Chess Tournament". The Times of India. May 1, 2025. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
^ ^a ^b ^c McGourty, Colin (March 21, 2025). "Carlsen, Topalov Given Grand Chess Tour Wildcards". Chess.com. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
^ "Grand Chess Tour 2025: Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa named full tour participants for the second year in-a-row - ChessBase India". ChessBase India. February 27, 2025. Retrieved May 2, 2025.

[1] Machuca, Danny (December 6, 2024). "GRAND CHESS TOUR 2025 SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED". Grand Chess Tour. Retrieved March 24, 2025.

[2] McGourty, Colin (March 3, 2025). "Gukesh Tops 2025 Grand Chess Tour Line-up, Sao Paulo Finals Added". Chess.com. Retrieved May 2, 2025.

[3] "Grand Chess Tour celebrates tenth anniversary with elite field". ChessBase. March 2, 2025. Retrieved May 2, 2025.

[:1-4] "2025 GCT Full Regulations" (PDF).

[:0-5] Machuca, Danny (February 26, 2025). "2025 Grand Chess Tour Celebrates its 10th Anniversary with Elite Field Battling for $1.6 Million in Prize Money with return of the GCT Finals". Grand Chess Tour. Retrieved March 24, 2025.

[6] Colodro, Carlos Alberto (May 1, 2025). "Vladimir Fedoseev convincingly wins Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland". ChessBase. Retrieved May 1, 2025.

[7] Levin, Anthony (April 30, 2025). "Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland: Fedoseev Wins With 3 Rounds To Spare". Chess.com. Retrieved May 2, 2025.

[8] PTI (May 1, 2025). "Superbet Rapid and Blitz: Praggnanandhaa finishes third". The New Indian Express. Retrieved May 2, 2025.

[9] "FIDE Circuit: Pragg seizes the lead, Fedoseev and Ivanchuk among top five". ChessBase. May 1, 2025. Retrieved May 2, 2025.

[10] "Indian GM R Praggnanandhaa reacts to finishing third in Superbet Rapid Blitz Chess Tournament". The Times of India. May 1, 2025. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved May 2, 2025.

[:2-11] McGourty, Colin (March 21, 2025). "Carlsen, Topalov Given Grand Chess Tour Wildcards". Chess.com. Retrieved May 2, 2025.

[12] "Grand Chess Tour 2025: Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa named full tour participants for the second year in-a-row - ChessBase India". ChessBase India. February 27, 2025. Retrieved May 2, 2025.

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