the previous edition Chess World Cup 2017. This time, though, Carlsen and Caruana both declined their invitations to the World Cup, so the qualifiers are simply the two finalists. Schedule Each of the first six rounds took three days: one day each for the two regular time limit games and then a third day for tiebreaks, if required. The final round has four days of regular time limit games and then a fifth day for tiebreaks, if required. Round 1: 10 September – 12 September Round 2: 13 September – 15 September Round 3: 16 September – 18 September Rest day: 19 September Round 4: 20 September – 22 September Round 5: 23 September – 25 September Round 6: 26 September – 28 September Rest day: 29 September Final and play-off for third place: 30 September – 4 October Prize money The total prize fund was US$1,600,000, with the first prize of US$110,000. Participants The participants were seeded by their FIDE rating of August 2019. All players are grandmasters unless indicated otherwise. Qualification paths Replacements Players from the list of qualifiers who declined to play: (World champion) (WWC) (decided to instead participate in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019–20) (who decided to instead focus on qualifying for the Candidates via the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2019) (retired from top level chess in January 2019) (R) Their replacements, all from the ratings list, were: (R) Other replacements: (Z2.1) → replaced by (AM19) (the next player in Z2.1 did not attain the required score of 50%, so the position passed on to the AM19) (Z3.6) (retired) → replaced by (Z3.6). This made Press the lowest rated player to play in a Chess World Cup. (PN) → replaced by (PN) Results, rounds 1–4 Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Section 8 Results, rounds 5–7 Third place Finals References External links Pairings tree (PDF). FIDE. 10 August 2019. FIDE World Cup 2019 (Games and Results) at The Week in Chess 2019 World Cup World Cup 2019 in Russian sport International sports competitions hosted by Russia Sport in Khanty-Mansiysk September 2019 sports events in Russia October 2019 sports events in Russia