29 December 2016

Men's Grand Prix Lineup Published

The tournaments will take place in Sharjah (UAE), Moscow (Russia), Geneva (Switzerland) and Palma de Mallorca (Spain).

FIDE website features detailed information on the 2017 Men's Grand Prix, including the list of qualified players, locations, and dates of the tournaments. 

The tournaments will take place in Sharjah (UAE) – Feb 17-28, Moscow (Russia) – May 11-22, Geneva (Switzerland) – July 5-16, and Palma de Mallorca (Spain) – November 15-26.

24 players will take part in each tournament – 15 qualified players and 9 nominees from Agon. 

The preliminary list of participants includes:

Magnus Carlsen
Sergey Karjakin
Peter Svidler
Anish Giri
Pavel Eljanov
Hikaru Nakamura
Fabiano Caruana
Vishy Anand
Veselin Topalov
Vladimir Kramnik
Levon Aronian
Welsey So
Ding Liren
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Evgeny Tomashevsky

The participation of these players must be confirmed not later than January 4.

The tree reserves are Alexander Grischuk, Li Chao, and Pentala Harikrishna.

Each player will take part in three tournaments. 

Details on FIDE site