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Press Release, Saint Louis, MO, January 13, 2021
The 2021 tour schedule consists of five tournaments as follows:
Superbet Chess Classic: June 3 - 15, 2021, Bucharest, Romania
Paris Rapid & Blitz: June 16 - 23, 2021, Paris, France
Croatia Rapid & Blitz: July 5 - 12, 2021, Zagreb, Croatia
St Louis Rapid & Blitz: August 9 - 16, 2021, St. Louis, Missouri USA
Sinquefield Cup: August 16 – 28, 2021, St. Louis, Missouri USA
The full tour participants will play in both classical events as well as in two of the three rapid and blitz tournaments.
Following the cancellation of the 2020 Grand Chess Tour due to the Covid-19 pandemic, invitations for the 2021 edition of the GCT were extended to the ten players who had qualified for the 2020 season. World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura have elected not to take part as full tour participants in 2021 and have been replaced by Grandmasters Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Teimour Radjabov. Gr