7 December 2016

FIDE Announces Venues for 2017 Grand Prix series

One of the tournaments will take place in Moscow.

The events will take place in Sharjah (Feb 17-28), Moscow (May 11-22), Geneva (Jul 5-16) and Palma de Mallorca (Nov 15-26). The prize fund of each tournament is 130,000 Euro. The list of participants will be published later in December. Among them will be the top rated players, Agon and ACP nominees, and players from host countries, 24 participants total. Each tournament will be held in a Swiss format with 18 players. Two winners qualify for the 2018 Candidates tournament. Right now only Sergey Karjakin has qualified for the Candidates. 

Announcement on FIDE website