FIDE Grand Prix 2017

The FIDE Grand Prix 2017 was a series of chess tournaments with the participation of the world's best that took place between February 2017 and November 2017. The two first placed qualified for the candidates tournament in Berlin 2018 for the chess world championship 2018 against the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway. The Grand Prix venues were Sharjah , Moscow , Geneva and Palma de Mallorca .

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space	Prize money	Grand Prix points
1	€ 20,000	170
2	€ 15,000	140
3	€ 12,000	110
4th	€ 11,000	90
5	€ 10,000	80
6th	€ 9,000	70
7th	€ 8,000	60
8th	€ 7,000	50
9	€ 6,000	40
10	€ 5,000	30th
11	€ 4,250	20th
12	€ 4,000	10
13	€ 3,750	8th
14th	€ 3,500	6th
15th	3,250 €	4th
16	€ 3,000	3
17th	€ 2,750	2
18th	€ 2,500	1

The Grand Prix consisted of four tournaments with 18 players each. 24 top players from the world took part, each of them playing in three tournaments. The tournaments took place according to the Swiss system with nine rounds, in contrast to the Grand Prix of previous years, which had been round tournaments.

In each of the tournaments points were awarded as shown in the table below. In the event of a tie, the points were shared; there was no fine evaluation.

In the overall ranking, the placement of the players resulted from the sum of the points scored. With the same number of points, the following criteria (in descending priority) would have decided:

1. Sum of the board points in the three tournaments played
2. Number of games played with black pieces
3. Number of winning games
4. Number of games won with Black
5. Come on

qualification

The 24 players were selected according to various criteria. The reigning world champion ( Magnus Carlsen ) and runner-up world champion ( Sergei Karjakin ) were eligible , but both waived. The field of participants consisted of

• 3 (semi) finalists of the 2015 World Cup : Pjotr ​​Swidler , Pawel Eljanow and Anish Giri . The fourth (and cup winner) was Karjakin.
• 10 participants based on the world ranking: Michael Adams , Levon Aronjan , Ding Liren , Boris Gelfand , Alexander Grishchuk , P. Harikrishna , Dmitri Jakowenko , Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov , Hikaru Nakamura , Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
• 1 participant: Winner of the ACP Tour 2015: Yevgeny Tomaschewski
• 10 participants nominated by the organizer: Jon Ludvig Hammer , Hou Yifan , Ernesto Inarkiew , Li Chao , Jan Nepomnjaschtschi , Teymur Rəcəbov , Richárd Rapport , Alexander Rjasanzew , Saleh Salem , Francisco Vallejo Pons

Results

Overall result

Məmmədyarov won the Grand Prix before Grishchuk. Both qualified for the candidates tournament. Previously, Aronjan and Ding had already secured their participation in the candidates' tournament as finalists of the 2017 World Cup .

Attendees	Sharjah	Moscow	Geneva	Palma	Total status
Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov	140	140	60	-	340
Alexander Grishchuk	140	71.4	125	-	336.4
Teymur Rəcəbov	-	71.4	170	71.4	312.9
Ding Liren	70	170	-	71.4	311.4
Dmitri Yakovenko	70	-	11	155	236
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	140	71.4	-	20th	231.4
Hikaru Nakamura	70	71.4	-	71.4	212.9
Pyotr Swidler	-	71.4	60	71.4	202.9
Jan Nepomnyashchi	70	3	125	-	198
Levon Aronjan	7th	-	11	155	173
Pentala Harikrishna	-	20th	60	71.4	151.4
Anish Giri	-	71.4	60	6th	137.4
Michael Adams	70	3	60	-	133
Richárd Rapport	25th	-	2.5	71.4	98.9
Yevgeny Tomaschewski	3	20th	-	71.4	94.4
Li Chao	25th	-	60	6th	91
Hou Yifan	7th	71.4	2.5	-	80.9
Alexander Ryazantsev	1	-	60	3	64
Pavel Elyanov	25th	-	11	20th	56
Francisco Vallejo Pons	25th	7th	-	6th	38
Boris Gelfand	-	20th	11	1.5	32.5
Ernesto Inarkiev	-	1	4th	20th	25th
Jon Ludvig Hammer	3	7th	-	1.5	11.5
Saleh Salem	3	3	1	-	7th

Tournaments

Sharjah Feb. 17-28, 2017	1st - 3rd Grishchuk, Vachier-Lagrave, Məmmədyarov 5½ p .; 4-8 Ding Liren, Adams, Jakowenko, Nakamura, Nepomnjaschtschi 5 P .; 9-12  Rapport, Eljanow, Li Chao, Vallejo Pons 4½ P .; 13-14 Aronjan, Hou Yifan 4 P .; 15-17  Salem, Hammer, Tomaschewski 3½ p .; 18.  Ryazantsev 3 p.
Moscow May 12-21, 2017	1. Ding Liren 6 p .; 2. Məmmədyarov 5½ p .; 3.– 9. Vachier-Lagrave, Nakamura, Giri, Swidler, Grishchuk, Rəcəbov, Hou Yifan 5 p .; 10-12 Harikrishna, Gelfand, Tomaschewski 4½ p .; 13-14  Hammer, Vallejo Pons 4 p .; 15.-17. Adams, Nepomnyashchi, Salem 3½ P .; 18. Inarkiev 2½ p.
Geneva July 06-15, 2017	1. Rəcəbov 6 p .; 2-3 Grishchuk, Nepomnyashchi 5½ p .; 4-10 Harikrishna, Məmmədyarov, Li Chao, Giri, Swidler, Adams, Ryazanzew 5 P .; 11-14 Aronjan, Gelfand, Jakowenko, Eljanow 4½ P .; 15. Inarkiev 4 p .; 16.-17. Rapport, Hou Yifan, 2½ p .; 18. Salem 2 P.
Palma 15-26 Nov 2017	1st – 2nd Aronjan, Jakowenko 5½ p .; 3.– 9. Ding, Harikrishna, Nakamura, Rəcəbov, Rapport, Swidler, Tomaschewski 5 p .; 10-12   Eljanow, Inarkiew, Vachier-Lagrave 4½ p .; 13-15   Giri, Li, Vallejo-Pons 4½ P .; 16.  Ryazantsev 3½ p .; 17.-18.   Gelfand, Hammer 3 P.

Web links

• FIDE Grand Prix Sharjah Tournament. chessgames.com: Games and results. Retrieved November 25, 2017 . 
• FIDE Grand Prix Moscow Tournament. chessgames.com: Games and results. Retrieved November 25, 2017 . 
• FIDE Grand Prix Geneva Tournament. chessgames.com: Games and results. Retrieved November 25, 2017 . 
• FIDE Grand Prix Mallorca Tournament. chessgames.com: Games and results. Retrieved November 25, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ FIDE Calendar. FIDE, accessed December 2, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Regulations for the 2016-2017 FIDE World Chess Grand-Prix Series. FIDE, accessed April 30, 2016 . 
3. ↑ FIDE Grand-Prix 2017 announcement. FIDE, December 28, 2016, accessed January 31, 2017 .