The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2019 was a chess tournament that formed part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2021. It was played from 10–21 October 2019 on the Isle of Man. This was the first time that a tournament of this type was used as a qualifying tournament for the Candidates Tournament.

Wang Hao and Fabiano Caruana shared first place, with Wang Hao winning on tie breaks and thereby qualifying for the 2020–21 Candidates Tournament. Of the players who shared third place, Kirill Alekseenko had the best tie break and became eligible for the Candidates wild card as the next-highest placed non-qualifier, as Caruana had already qualified for the Candidates by virtue of being the runner-up in the previous World Championship. Alekseenko was later selected as the Candidates wild card.

The highest-placed female players were Harika Dronavalli (83rd) and Dinara Saduakassova (85th), with Harika winning the women's trophy on tie breaks.

Format

The tournament was an 11-round Swiss-system tournament, with 120 players invited by FIDE, including 100 qualifying by rating. 40 wildcards were invited by the organizers. The qualification by rating was based on the average of the 12 rating lists from July 2018 to June 2019. The list of qualifiers (except for those qualifying by continental championships or wildcards) was published on 10 June 2019.

The time control for the games was: Time limit of 100 minutes, + 50 minutes added after move 40, + 15 minutes added after move 60, + 30 second per move increment from move 1.

Tie breaks

In the event of a tie for first, the following tie breaks were applied, in order:

Average rating of opponents, Cut 1 (that is, after excluding the lowest rated opponent); Buchholz Cut 1 method: Average score of opponents, excluding the lowest scoring opponent; Buchholz method: Average score of opponents; Individual games between tied players; Drawing of lots.

Schedule The first six rounds were played from 10 to 15 October, and the last five rounds from 17 to 21 October.

Round 1: 10 October — 3:00 p.m. (CEST) Round 2: 11 October — 3:00 p.m. (CEST) Round 3: 12 October — 3:00 p.m. (CEST) Round 4: 13 October — 3:00 p.m. (CEST) Round 5: 14 October — 3:00 p.m. (CEST) Round 6: 15 October — 3:00 p.m. (CEST) Rest day: 16 October Round 7: 17 October — 3:00 p.m. (CEST) Round 8: 18 October — 3:00 p.m. (CEST) Round 9: 19 October — 3:00 p.m. (CEST) Round 10: 20 October — 3:00 p.m. (CEST) Round 11: 21 October — 1:30 p.m. (CEST)

Prize money The prize money was $70,000 for the winner and $10,000 for the best woman. Position (US$) Tournament Prize received (US$) Women Prize received 1st 70,000 10,000 2nd 50,000 8,000 3rd 40,000 6,000 4th 35,000 4,000 5th 30,000 2,500 6th 25,000 2,500 7th 20,000 — 8th 16,000 — 9th 13,000 — 10th 11,000 — 11th-15th 8,000 each — 16th-20th 5,000 each — 21st-25th 3,000 each — 26th-30th 2,000 each — Total (US$) 433,000

Participants and results 154 players played in the Grand Swiss. 118 players were from FIDE's qualification criteria and 36 players were wildcards chosen by the organizers.

The participants, their FIDE ratings as of October 2019 and the results are listed here (hover over results to see opponents). The "Rank" column takes account of tie breaks.

Rank Name Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Total 1 2726 8.0 2 2812 8.0 3 2674 7.5 4 2758 7.5 5 2674 7.5 6 2876 7.5 7 2745 7.5 8 2732 7.5 9 2759 7.0 10 2602 7.0 11 2694 7.0 12 2718 7.0 13 2708 7.0 14 2664 6.5 15 2632 6.5 16 2661 6.5 17 2664 6.5 18 2621 6.5 19 2669 6.5 20 2643 6.5 21 2650 6.5 22 2716 6.5 23 2760 6.5 24 2763 6.5 25 2636 6.5 26 2765 6.5 27 2767 6.5 28 2748 6.5 29 2729 6.5 30 2638 6.5 31 2654 6.5 32 2708 6.5 33 2748 6.5 34 2670 6.5 35 2654 6.5 36 2624 6.5 37 2639 6.5 38 2694 6.5 39 2691 6.5 40 2662 6.5 41 2675 6.5 42 2670 6.5 43 2655 6.0 44 2635 6.0 45 2613 6.0 46 2608 6.0 47 2611 6.0 48 2520 6.0 49 2630 6.0 50 2638 6.0 51 2686 6.0 52 2670 6.0 53 2636 6.0 54 2690 6.0 55 2679 6.0 56 2624 6.0 57 2634 6.0 58 2685 6.0 59 2693 6.0 60 2645 6.0 61 2635 6.0 62 2662 6.0 63 2667 6.0 64 2663 6.0 65 2639 5.5 66 2664 5.5 67 2621 5.5 68 2630 5.5 69 2645 5.5 70 2627 5.5 71 2479 5.5 72 2657 5.5 73 2682 5.5 74 2581 5.5 75 2619 5.5 76 2506 5.5 77 2593 5.5 78 2595 5.5 79 2604 5.5 80 2602 5.5 81 2643 5.5 82 2625 5.5 83 2495 5.5 84 2645 5.5 85 2481 5.5 86 2721 5.5 87 2617 5.5 88 2746 5.5 89 2658 5.5 90 2531 5.5 91 2699 5.5 92 2655 5.5 93 2684 5.5 94 2629 5.5 95 2671 5.5 96 2629 5.5 97 2604 5.5 98 2651 5.5 99 2667 5.5 100 2644 5.5 101 2699 5.5 102 2644 5.5 103 2643 5.5 104 2654 5.5 105 2571 5.0 106 2620 5.0 107 2421 5.0 108 2469 5.0 109 2558 5.0 110 2648 5.0 111 2463 5.0 112 2611 5.0 113 2617 5.0 114 2705 5.0 115 2658 5.0 116 2481 5.0 117 2629 5.0 118 2688 5.0 119 2506 4.5 120 2624 4.5 121 2610 4.5 122 2618 4.5 123 2675 4.5 124 2428 4.5 125 2494 4.5 126 2365 4.5 127 2479 4.5 128 2636 4.5 129 2684 4.5 130 2475 4.5 131 2447 4.5 132 2422 4.5 133 2629 4.5 134 2462 4.5 135 2431 4.0 136 2451 4.0 137 2533 4.0 138 2445 4.0 139 2552 4.0 140 2385 4.0 141 2445 4.0 142 2452 4.0 143 2430 3.5 144 2464 3.5 145 2442 3.5 146 2422 3.0 147 2493 3.0 148 2300 3.0 149 2067 3.0 150 2332 3.0 151 2252 3.0 152 2161 3.0 153 2382 2.5 154 2489 1.5

References

External links

2019 FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss Tournament Information Rules for the FIDE Grand Swiss 2019