FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2019

The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2019 was a chess tournament that forms part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2020. It was played on October 10 to 21 2019, on the Isle of Man. This was the first time that a tournament of this type was used as a qualifying tournament for the Candidates Tournament.
Wang Hao and Fabiano Caruana shared first place, with Wang Hao winning on tie breaks and thereby qualifying for the 2020 Candidates Tournament. Of the players who shared third place, Kirill Alekseenko had the best tie break and became eligible for the Candidates wild card as the next-highest placed non-qualifier, as Caruana had already qualified for the 2020 Candidates by virtue of being the runner-up in the 2018 World Championship. Alekseenko was later selected as the Candidates wild card.
The highest-placed female players were Harika Dronavalli and Dinara Saduakassova, with Harika winning the women's trophy on tie breaks.

Format

The tournament was an 11-round Swiss-system tournament, with 154 players invited, including 100 qualifying by rating. The qualification by rating was based on the average of the 12 rating lists from July 2018 to June 2019. The list of qualifiers was published on 10 June 2019.
The time control for the games was:

Time limit of 100 minutes, + 50 minutes added after move 40, + 15 minutes added after move 60, + 30 second per move increment from move 1.
Tie breaks

In the event of a tie for first, the following tie breaks were applied, in order:

Average rating of opponents, Cut 1 ;
Buchholz Cut 1 method: Average score of opponents, excluding the lowest scoring opponent;
Buchholz method: Average score of opponents;
Individual games between tied players;
Drawing of lots.
Schedule

The first six rounds were played from 10th to 15th of October, and the last five rounds from 17th to 21st of October.

Round 1: October 10 — 3:00 p.m.
Round 2: October 11 — 3:00 p.m.
Round 3: October 12 — 3:00 p.m.
Round 4: October 13 — 3:00 p.m.
Round 5: October 14 — 3:00 p.m.
Round 6: October 15 — 3:00 p.m.
Rest day: October 16
Round 7: October 17 — 3:00 p.m.
Round 8: October 18 — 3:00 p.m.
Round 9: October 19 — 3:00 p.m.
Round 10: October 20 — 3:00 p.m.
Round 11: October 21 — 1:30 p.m.
Prize money

The prize money was $70,000 for the winner and $10,000 for the best woman.

Participants and results

154 players played in the Grand Swiss. 100 qualified by rating, 18 qualified by continental championships, and 36 wildcards were chosen by the organizers.
The participants, their FIDE ratings as of October 2019 and the results are listed here. The "Rank" column takes account of tie breaks.

Rank	Name	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1		2726												8.0
2		2812												8.0
3		2674												7.5
4		2758												7.5
5		2674												7.5
6		2876												7.5
7		2745												7.5
8		2732												7.5
9		2759												7.0
10		2602												7.0
11		2694												7.0
12		2718												7.0
13		2708												7.0
14		2664												6.5
15		2632												6.5
16		2661												6.5
17		2664												6.5
18		2621												6.5
19		2669												6.5
20		2643												6.5
21		2650												6.5
22		2716												6.5
23		2760												6.5
24		2763												6.5
25		2636												6.5
26		2765												6.5
27		2767												6.5
28		2748												6.5
29		2729												6.5
30		2638												6.5
31		2654												6.5
32		2708												6.5
33		2748												6.5
34		2670												6.5
35		2654												6.5
36		2624												6.5
37		2639												6.5
38		2694												6.5
39		2691												6.5
40		2662												6.5
41		2675												6.5
42		2670												6.5
43		2655												6.0
44		2635												6.0
45		2613												6.0
46		2608												6.0
47		2611												6.0
48		2520												6.0
49		2630												6.0
50		2638												6.0
51		2686												6.0
52		2670												6.0
53		2636												6.0
54		2690												6.0
55		2679												6.0
56		2624												6.0
57		2634												6.0
58		2685												6.0
59		2693												6.0
60		2645												6.0
61		2635												6.0
62		2662												6.0
63		2667												6.0
64		2663												6.0
65		2639												5.5
66		2664												5.5
67		2621												5.5
68		2630												5.5
69		2645												5.5
70		2627												5.5
71		2479												5.5
72		2657												5.5
73		2682												5.5
74		2581												5.5
75		2619												5.5
76		2506												5.5
77		2593												5.5
78		2595												5.5
79		2604												5.5
80		2602												5.5
81		2643												5.5
82		2625												5.5
83		2495												5.5
84		2645												5.5
85		2481												5.5
86		2721												5.5
87		2617												5.5
88		2746												5.5
89		2658												5.5
90		2531												5.5
91		2699												5.5
92		2655												5.5
93		2684												5.5
94		2629												5.5
95		2671												5.5
96		2629												5.5
97		2604												5.5
98		2651												5.5
99		2667												5.5
100		2644												5.5
101		2699												5.5
102		2644												5.5
103		2643												5.5
104		2654												5.5
105		2571												5.0
106		2620												5.0
107		2421												5.0
108		2469												5.0
109		2558												5.0
110		2648												5.0
111		2463												5.0
112		2611												5.0
113		2617												5.0
114		2705												5.0
115		2658												5.0
116		2481												5.0
117		2629												5.0
118		2688												5.0
119		2506												4.5
120		2624												4.5
121		2610												4.5
122		2618												4.5
123		2675												4.5
124		2428												4.5
125		2494												4.5
126		2365												4.5
127		2479												4.5
128		2636												4.5
129		2684												4.5
130		2475												4.5
131		2447												4.5
132		2422												4.5
133		2629												4.5
134		2462												4.5
135		2431												4.0
136		2451												4.0
137		2533												4.0
138		2445												4.0
139		2552												4.0
140		2385												4.0
141		2445												4.0
142		2452												4.0
143		2430												3.5
144		2464												3.5
145		2442												3.5
146		2422												3.0
147		2493												3.0
148		2300												3.0
149		2067												3.0
150		2332												3.0
151		2252												3.0
152		2161												3.0
153		2382												2.5
154		2489												1.5

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FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2019

Format

Tie breaks

Schedule

Prize money

Participants and results