The Superbet Chess Classic is a 10-player classical round-robin taking place in the Grand Hotel in Bucharest, Romania from 6-15 May 2023. It’s the first stage on the 2023 Grand Chess Tour, with a $350,000 total prize fund and a $100,000 top prize. The players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment per move starting from move one.
The Grand Chess Tour (GCT), a circuit of international events, each demonstrating the highest level of organization for the world’s best players, will return again in 2023. Tour participants will compete for a total prize fund of $1.4 million over the course of the 2023 season. The prize money for each of the two classical tournaments will be $350,000 and $175,000 per event for rapid and blitz. In addition, a bonus prize fund totaling $175,000 will be awarded to the top three overall tour finishers. Live games from the Grand Chess Tour 2023 will be daily on Chessdom.com
More about the Grand Chess Tour 2023: The Grand Chess Tour returns in 2023 / Grand Chess Tour 2023 is part World Championship Cycle
Parallel: TePe Sigeman 2023: Participants and information / All games live games / News on Twitter
Full list of players :
No.
Name
FideID
FED
Rtg
3
GM
Nepomniachtchi, Ian
4168119
FID
2794
1
GM
Ding, Liren
8603677
CHN
2789
5
GM
Firouzja, Alireza
12573981
FRA
2785
7
GM
Giri, Anish
24116068
NED
2768
2
GM
Caruana, Fabiano
2020009
USA
2764
6
GM
So, Wesley
5202213
USA
2760
8
GM
Rapport, Richard
738590
ROU
2745
10
GM
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime
623539
FRA
2742
4
GM
Duda, Jan-Krzysztof
1170546
POL
2724
9
GM
Deac, Bogdan-Daniel
1226380
ROU
2700
