The Grand Swiss is a nine round swiss tournament that runs from October 10-21. The winner, or the highest placed player that has not qualified by other means, receives a spot in the candidates tournament.

The time control for each game is: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes the next 20 moves, followed by 15 minutes for the rest of the game. The players will have an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from the first move.

Schedule


Round 1	October 10th, 14:00 UTC
Round 2	October 11th, 14:00 UTC
Round 3	October 12th, 14:00 UTC
Round 4	October 13th, 14:00 UTC
Round 5	October 14th, 14:00 UTC
Round 6	October 15th, 14:00 UTC
Rest Day	October 16th
Round 7	October 17th, 14:00 UTC
Round 8	October 18th, 14:00 UTC
Round 9	October 19th, 14:00 UTC
Round 10	October 20th, 14:00 UTC
Round 11	October 21st, 12:30 UTC

Standings

after round 8

Rank	Name	Score	Rating
1	Caruana, Fabiano	6/8	2812
2	Anton Guijarro, David	6/8	2674
3	Aronian, Levon	6/8	2758
4	Wang, Hao	5½/8	2726
5	Alekseenko, Kirill	5½/8	2674
6	Maghsoodloo, Parham	5½/8	2664
7	Kovalev, Vladislav	5½/8	2661
8	Carlsen, Magnus	5½/8	2876
9	Vitiugov, Nikita	5½/8	2732
10	Karjakin, Sergey	5½/8	2760
11	Nakamura, Hikaru	5½/8	2745
12	Anand, Viswanathan	5½/8	2765
13	Gelfand, Boris	5½/8	2686
14	Shirov, Alexei	5/8	2664
15	Adhiban, B.	5/8	2639
16	Tari, Aryan	5/8	2630
17	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	5/8	2657
18	Rakhmanov, Aleksandr	5/8	2621
19	Grischuk, Alexander	5/8	2759
20	McShane, Luke J	5/8	2682
21	Yu, Yangyi	5/8	2763
22	Kryvoruchko, Yuriy	5/8	2669
23	So, Wesley	5/8	2767
24	Svidler, Peter	5/8	2729
25	Matlakov, Maxim	5/8	2716
26	Xiong, Jeffery	5/8	2708
27	Howell, David W L	5/8	2694
28	Le, Quang Liem	5/8	2708
29	Ragger, Markus	5/8	2684
30	Hovhannisyan, Robert	5/8	2639
31	Robson, Ray	5/8	2670
32	Fedoseev, Vladimir	4½/8	2664
33	Abasov, Nijat	4½/8	2632
34	Melkumyan, Hrant	4½/8	2650
35	Jumabayev, Rinat	4½/8	2630
36	Deac, Bogdan-Daniel	4½/8	2613
37	Mamedov, Rauf	4½/8	2645
38	Abdusattorov, Nodirbek	4½/8	2608
39	Narayanan.S.L	4½/8	2611
40	Paravyan, David	4½/8	2602
41	Gukesh D	4½/8	2520
42	Lupulescu, Constantin	4½/8	2643
43	Cheparinov, Ivan	4½/8	2670
44	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	4½/8	2748
45	Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	4½/8	2718
46	Artemiev, Vladislav	4½/8	2746
47	Dreev, Aleksey	4½/8	2662
48	Akopian, Vladimir	4½/8	2638
49	Baron, Tal	4½/8	2531
50	Sargissian, Gabriel	4½/8	2690
51	Lenderman, Aleksandr	4½/8	2648
52	Korobov, Anton	4½/8	2679
53	Sevian, Samuel	4½/8	2654
54	Zhang, Zhong	4½/8	2636
55	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	4½/8	2694
56	Sethuraman, S.P.	4½/8	2624
57	Grandelius, Nils	4½/8	2691
58	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	4½/8	2638
59	Mareco, Sandro	4½/8	2634
60	Inarkiev, Ernesto	4½/8	2693
61	Nabaty, Tamir	4½/7	2658
62	Sjugirov, Sanan	4½/8	2662
63	Leko, Peter	4½/8	2670
64	Moiseenko, Alexander	4½/8	2635
65	Eljanov, Pavel	4½/8	2663
66	Sarana, Alexey	4/8	2655
67	Volokitin, Andrei	4/8	2627
68	Bluebaum, Matthias	4/8	2643
69	Van Foreest, Jorden	4/8	2621
70	Najer, Evgeniy	4/8	2635
71	Sadhwani, Raunak	4/8	2479
72	Papaioannou, Ioannis	4/8	2645
73	Bjerre, Jonas Buhl	4/8	2506
74	Puranik, Abhimanyu	4/8	2571
75	Yilmaz, Mustafa	4/8	2595
76	Erdos, Viktor	4/8	2604
77	Safarli, Eltaj	4/8	2593
78	Lu, Shanglei	4/8	2602
79	Kuzubov, Yuriy	4/8	2636
80	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	4/8	2658
81	Bu, Xiangzhi	4/8	2721
82	Alekseev, Evgeny	4/8	2629
83	Saduakassova, Dinara	4/8	2481
84	Oparin, Grigoriy	4/8	2654
85	Harikrishna, Pentala	4/8	2748
86	Nihal Sarin	4/8	2610
87	Jobava, Baadur	4/8	2617
88	Amin, Bassem	4/8	2699
89	Vocaturo, Daniele	4/8	2620
90	Durarbayli, Vasif	4/8	2617
91	Vovk, Andriy	4/8	2618
92	Kamsky, Gata	4/8	2685
93	Hansen, Eric	4/8	2611
94	Motylev, Alexander	4/8	2651
95	Bacrot, Etienne	4/8	2671
96	Esipenko, Andrey	4/8	2624
97	Sasikiran, Krishnan	4/8	2675
98	Soumya, Swaminathan	4/8	2365
99	Chigaev, Maksim	4/8	2644
100	Saric, Ivan	4/8	2667
101	Berkes, Ferenc	4/8	2667
102	Jones, Gawain C B	4/8	2688
103	Akobian, Varuzhan	3½/8	2625
104	Keymer, Vincent	3½/8	2506
105	L'Ami, Erwin	3½/8	2619
106	Hess, Robert	3½/8	2581
107	Harika, Dronavalli	3½/8	2495
108	Christiansen, Johan-Sebastian	3½/8	2558
109	Demchenko, Anton	3½/8	2655
110	Huschenbeth, Niclas	3½/8	2624
111	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	3½/8	2421
112	Ushenina, Anna	3½/8	2431
113	Riazantsev, Alexander	3½/8	2645
114	Shankland, Sam	3½/8	2705
115	Stefanova, Antoaneta	3½/8	2479
116	Parligras, Mircea-Emilian	3½/8	2629
117	Ponomariov, Ruslan	3½/8	2675
118	Bachmann, Axel	3½/8	2629
119	Gonzalez Vidal, Yuri	3½/8	2552
120	Adly, Ahmed	3½/8	2636

Full Standings

FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss - Round 9