Paris is the third stop on the 2019 Grand Chess Tour and will see the participants competing over 9 rounds of rapid chess and 18 rounds of blitz chess for a total prize fund of $150,000.
The rapid event is a 10-player single round-robin and features 3 rounds each day on the first 3 days, with a time control of 25 minutes for all moves and a 10-second delay from move 1.
The final 2 days are a blitz double round-robin, with 18 rounds of 5 minutes + 3-second delay blitz.
Rapid games count double, with 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw.
GM Anand, Viswanathan (2764) 
GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian (2775) 
GM Caruana, Fabiano (2819) 
GM Duda, Jan-Krzysztof (2729) 
