Grand Chess Tour 2025

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]

2025 Grand Chess Tour

2025
Alireza Firouzja, the current points leader of the Grand Chess Tour 2025
Tournament information
Dates	April 26–October 4
Host(s)	Warsaw, Poland Bucharest, Romania Zagreb, Croatia St. Louis, United States São Paulo, Brazil
Defending champions	Alireza Firouzja
Tournament statistics
Most tournament titles	Vladimir Fedoseev (1) R Praggnanandhaa (1) Magnus Carlsen (1)
Prize money leader	R Praggnanandhaa ($110,666)
Points leader	Alireza Firouzja (22.5)
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Format

The tour consists of six tournaments. Rapid & Blitz tournaments consist 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 were 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 consists of nine players, including the top-three finishers of the previous edition. The remaining six players were selected based on several factors, including URS rating, 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	2745
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 26–30, 2025	Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland	Rapid & blitz	Warsaw	Vladimir Fedoseev (WC)	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	R Praggnanandhaa
May 7–16, 2025	Superbet Chess Classic Romania	Classical	Bucharest	R Praggnanandhaa	Alireza Firouzja Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	—
July 2–6, 2025	SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia	Rapid & blitz	Zagreb	Magnus Carlsen (WC)	Wesley So	Gukesh Dommaraju
August 11–15, 2025	Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz	Rapid & blitz	St. Louis
August 18–28, 2025	Sinquefield Cup	Classical
September 26–October 4, 2025	GCT Finals	Classical, Rapid & Blitz	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	Alireza Firouzja (France)	6	10	6.5	—		22.5		$100,166
T-2	R Praggnanandhaa (India)	8	10	2	—		20		$110,666
T-2	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	10	10	—			20		$97,666
4	Wesley So (United States)	—	3.5	10			13.5		$47,125
5	Gukesh Dommaraju (India)	—	3.5	8			11.5		$42,125
T-6	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)	3.5	1	6.5	—		11		$37,500
T-6	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan)	—	6	5			11		$37,000
T-8	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	—	7	3.5			10.5		$41,500
T-8	Levon Aronian (United States)	7	3.5	—			10.5		$37,125
	Vladimir Fedoseev (Slovenia)	13	—	—	—	—	13	—	$40,000
	Magnus Carlsen (Norway)	—	—	13	—	—	13	—	$40,000
	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania)	5	3.5	—	—	—	8.5	—	$28,125
	Aravindh Chithambaram (India)	3.5	—	—	—	—	3.5	—	$9,500
	Anish Giri (Netherlands)	—	—	3.5	—	—	3.5	—	$9,500
	David Gavrilescu (Romania)	2	—	—	—	—	2	—	$8,000
	Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria)	1	—	—	—	—	1	—	$7,000
	Ivan Šarić (Croatia)	—	—	1	—	—	1	—	$7,000
	Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam)	—	—	—		—		—
	Leinier Domínguez (United States)	—	—	—		—		—
	Sam Shankland (United States)	—	—	—		—		—
	Grigoriy Oparin (United States)	—	—	—		—		—
	Samuel Sevian (United States)	—	—	—	—			—

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	TB	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 was held in Bucharest, Romania from May 7–16. Praggnanandhaa won the tournament in playoffs, while Vachier-Lagrave continued to lead the tour standings.^[11][12]

2025 GCT Superbet Chess Classic, May 7–16 Bucharest, Romania

	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	TB	Tour Points	Prize Money
1	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	2758	Does not appear	½	½	½	1	1	½	½	½	½	5½	1½	10	$77,666
2	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2757	½	Does not appear	1	0	½	½	½	1	1	½	5½	1	10	$67,666
3	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2723	½	0	Does not appear	½	½	1	½	½	1	1	5½	½	10	$67,666
4	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2776	½	1	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	½	½	5	Does not appear	7	$32,000
5	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)	2771	0	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	1	4½	Does not appear	6	$26,000
T-6	Wesley So (USA)	2751	0	½	0	½	½	Does not appear	½	1	½	½	4	Does not appear	3.5	$17,125
T-6	Levon Aronian (USA)	2747	½	½	½	½	½	½	Does not appear	0	0	1	4	Does not appear	3.5	$17,125
T-6	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU)	2668	½	0	½	½	½	0	1	Does not appear	½	½	4	Does not appear	WC (3.5)	$17,125
T-6	Gukesh Dommaraju (IND)	2787	½	0	0	½	½	½	1	½	Does not appear	½	4	Does not appear	3.5	$17,125
10	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2739	½	½	0	½	0	½	0	½	½	Does not appear	3	Does not appear	1	$10,500

First place play-off

	Player	Blitz rating	1	2	3	Score
1	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	2717	Does not appear	½	1	1½
2	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2857	½	Does not appear	½	1
3	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2748	0	½	Does not appear	½

SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia

The third leg of the Grand Chess Tour was held in Zagreb, Croatia from July 2–6. Magnus Carlsen won the tournament with one round to spare, while Vachier-Lagrave maintains the tour lead. ^[13]

2025 GCT SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia, July 2–6 Zagreb, Croatia

	Player	Rapid	Blitz	Total	TB	Tour Points	Prize money	Circuit
1	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	10	12½	22½		WC (13)	$40,000	15.18
2	Wesley So (USA)	8	12	20		10	$30,000	11.04
3	Gukesh Dommaraju (IND)	14	5½	19½		8	$25,000	9.66
T-4	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	11	8	19		6.5	$17,500
T-4	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	8	11	19		6.5	$17,500
6	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)	6	12	18		5	$11,000
T-7	Anish Giri (NED)	8	9	17		3.5 (WC)	$9,500
T-7	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	9	8	17		3.5	$9,500
9	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	9	6	15		2	$8,000
10	Ivan Šarić (CRO)	7	6	13		1 (WC)	$7,000

2025 GCT SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia – Rapid, July 2–4 Zagreb, Croatia

	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Gukesh Dommaraju (IND)	2654	Does not appear	0	2	2	2	1	2	2	1	2	14
2	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2718	2	Does not appear	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	11
3	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	2819	0	1	Does not appear	1	2	1	1	2	1	1	10
4	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	2688	0	1	1	Does not appear	1	1	1	1	2	1	9
5	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2756	0	1	0	1	Does not appear	2	1	0	2	2	9
6	Anish Giri (NED)	2688	1	0	1	1	0	Does not appear	2	0	1	2	8
7	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2753	0	1	1	1	1	0	Does not appear	2	1	1	8
8	Wesley So (USA)	2714	0	1	0	1	2	2	0	Does not appear	1	1	8
9	Ivan Šarić (CRO)	2597	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	Does not appear	1	7
10	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)	2732	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	Does not appear	6

2025 GCT SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia – Blitz, July 5–6 Zagreb, Croatia

	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	2883	Does not appear	½ ½	1 0	1 1	½ ½	½ ½	1 ½	1 ½	1 1	1 ½	12½
2	Wesley So (USA)	2786	½ ½	Does not appear	1 ½	1 ½	1 ½	½ 0	1 1	0 ½	½ 1	1 1	12
3	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)	2723	0 1	0 ½	Does not appear	1 0	½ 1	1 ½	0 1	½ 1	1 1	1 1	12
4	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2814	0 0	0 ½	0 1	Does not appear	1 1	1 1	½ ½	½ 1	1 0	1 1	11
5	Anish Giri (NED)	2690	½ ½	0 ½	½ 0	0 0	Does not appear	½ 1	0 1	½ 1	½ 1	½ 1	9
6	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2770	½ ½	½ 1	0 ½	0 0	½ 0	Does not appear	1 0	1 1	½ 0	1 0	8
7	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2782	0 ½	0 0	1 0	½ ½	1 0	0 1	Does not appear	½ 1	1 1	0 0	8
8	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	2734	0 ½	1 ½	½ 0	½ 0	½ 0	0 0	½ 0	Does not appear	½ 0	1 ½	6
9	Ivan Šarić (CRO)	2593	0 0	½ 0	0 0	0 1	½ 0	½ 1	0 0	½ 1	Does not appear	1 0	6
10	Gukesh Dommaraju (IND)	2615	0 ½	0 0	0 0	0 0	½ 0	0 1	1 1	0 ½	0 1	Does not appear	5½

Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz

The fourth leg of the Grand Chess Tour will be held in St. Louis, United States from August 11–15.^[13]

2025 GCT Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, August 11–15 St. Louis, Missouri, United States

	Player	Rapid	Blitz	Total	TB	Tour Points	Prize money
1	Fabiano Caruana (USA)
2	Gukesh Dommaraju (IND)
3	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)
4	Wesley So (USA)
5	Leinier Dominguez (USA)
6	Levon Aronian (USA)
7	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)
8	Lê Quang Liêm (VIE)
9	Sam Shankland (USA)
10	Grigoriy Oparin (USA)

2025 GCT Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz – Rapid, August 11–13 St. Louis, Missouri, United States

	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2750	Does not appear
2	Levon Aronian (USA)	2732		Does not appear
3	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2725			Does not appear
4	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)	2721				Does not appear
5	Leinier Dominguez (USA)	2705					Does not appear
6	Wesley So (USA)	2704						Does not appear
7	Gukesh Dommaraju (IND)	2687							Does not appear
8	Lê Quang Liêm (VIE)	2655								Does not appear
9	Grigoriy Oparin (USA)	2634									Does not appear
10	Sam Shankland (USA)	2621										Does not appear

2025 GCT Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz – Blitz, August 14–15 St. Louis, Missouri, United States

	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Wesley So (USA)	2803	Does not appear
2	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2769		Does not appear
3	Levon Aronian (USA)	2768			Does not appear
4	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2760				Does not appear
5	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)	2757					Does not appear
6	Lê Quang Liêm (VIE)	2675						Does not appear
7	Sam Shankland (USA)	2651							Does not appear
8	Grigoriy Oparin (USA)	2651								Does not appear
9	Leinier Dominguez (USA)	2634									Does not appear
10	Gukesh Dommaraju (IND)	2613										Does not appear

Sinquefield Cup

The fifth leg of the Grand Chess Tour will be held in St. Louis, United States from August 18–28.^[13]

2025 GCT Sinquefield Cup, August 18–28 St. Louis, Missouri, United States, Category XXI (2750.2)

	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	TB	Tour Points	Prize Money
1	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	2784	Does not appear
2	R Praggnanandhaa (IND)	2779		Does not appear
3	Gukesh Dommaraju (IND)	2776			Does not appear
4	Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB)	2771				Does not appear
5	Alireza Firouzja (FRA)	2766					Does not appear
6	Wesley So (USA)	2745						Does not appear
7	Levon Aronian (USA)	2737							Does not appear
8	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)	2736								Does not appear
9	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL)	2725									Does not appear
10	Samuel Sevian (USA)	2683										Does not appear

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.^[14]

	Semifinals					Finals
	1
	4
	2
	3