{"id":2520,"date":"2023-01-09T20:02:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T20:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwx.bif.mybluehost.me\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2023-01-09T20:02:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T20:02:36","slug":"grand-chess-tour-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/?p=2520","title":{"rendered":"Grand Chess Tour 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Grand Chess Tour (GCT), a circuit of international events, each demonstrating the highest level of organization for the world&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2023 tour will include eight full tour players and additional wildcards will be selected for each tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gwx.bif.mybluehost.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Alireza-Firouzja-St.-Louis-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"2022 Tour Champion Alireza Firouzja\" class=\"wp-image-2521\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">2022 Tour Champion Alireza Firouzja<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Superbet Chess Classic will kick off the 2023 tour in Bucharest, Romania and the Sinquefield Cup will close out the tour from November &#8211; December in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between the two classical events are three rapid and blitz events scheduled to be in Warsaw, Poland, Zagreb, Croatia and Saint Louis, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The major sponsors of the 2023 Grand Chess Tour are Superbet Foundation, Super United, and Saint Louis Chess Club. The events are shifting from Western Europe (previously Paris &amp; London) to the east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2023 Grand Chess Tour<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Superbet Chess Classic Romania, May 4 &#8211; May 16, Bucharest, Romania<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Superbet Rapid &amp; Blitz Poland, May 19 &#8211; May 26, Warsaw, Poland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SuperUnited Rapid &amp; Blitz Croatia, July 3 &#8211; July 10, Zagreb, Croatia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Saint Louis Rapid &amp; Blitz, November 12 &#8211; November 19, Saint Louis, USA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sinquefield Cup, November 19 &#8211; December 3, Saint Louis, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Chess Tour (GCT), a circuit of international events, each demonstrating the highest level of organization for the world&#8217;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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,178,8,15],"tags":[432,188,321,433,434,314,231,435,436],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-usa","category-news","category-upcoming","tag-bucharest","tag-croatia","tag-poland","tag-romania","tag-saint-louis","tag-trending","tag-usa","tag-warsaw","tag-zagreb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chess.mensch.rs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}