Grand Chess Tour Paris 2019

Grand Chess Tour Paris takes place from 27th of July to 1st of August. It's 9 rounds of rapid and 18 rounds of blitz between the following players:

Hikaru Nakamura

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Fabiano Caruana

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Ian Nepomniachtchi

Anish Giri

Viswanathan Anand

Alexander Grischuk 

Jan-Krzysztof Duda

Daniil Dubov

Schedule in UTC:

July 27 - 3 rounds of rapid starting at 14:00

July 28 - 3 rounds of rapid starting at 14:00

July 29 - 3 rounds of rapid starting at 14:00

July 30 - rest day

July 31 - 9 rounds of blitz starting at 13:00

August 1 - 9 rounds of blitz starting at 12:00 

In case of a tie for the 1st place there will be a playoff between all the players involved.

Standings after round 18:

1. Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime - 17.5pts

2.  Nepomniachtchi, Ian - 15.5pts

3. Grischuk, Alexander - 15.5pts

4. Caruana, Fabiano - 14.5pts

5.  Anand, Viswanathan - 14.5pts

6.  Nakamura, Hikaru - 14.5pts

7. Duda, Jan-Krzysztof - 13pts

8. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar - 10.5pts

9.  Dubov, Daniil - 10.5pts

10. Giri, Anish - 9pts