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This year's Grand Chess Tour starts in Bucharest, where the ten seeded participants of the Grand Chess Tour (see table below) will play a classical tournament from May 3rd to 16th. The other classical event in this year's tour, with the same participants, takes place from August 31st to September 11th in St. Louis.
In addition, each of the ten full tour participants will also play in two of the three rapid and blitz tournaments, as follows:
| Dates | June 24 to 28 | July 4 to 8 | August 25 to 29 |
| Location | Paris, France | Zagreb, Croatia | Saint Louis, USA |
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | Carlsen, Magnus | Ding, Liren |
| 2 | Nakamura, Hikaru | Ding, Liren | Nakamura, Hikaru |
| 3 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | Caruana, Fabiano | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime |
| 4 | Caruana, Fabiano | So, Wesley | Grischuk, Alexander |
| 5 | So, Wesley | Grischuk, Alexander | Aronian, Levon |
| 6 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | Giri, Anish |
| 7 | Aronian, Levon | Giri, Anish | Wildcard (TBC) |
| 8 | Wildcard (TBC) | Wildcard (TBC) | Wildcard (TBC) |
| 9 | Wildcard (TBC) | Wildcard (TBC) | Wildcard (TBC) |
| 10 | Wildcard (TBC) | Wildcard (TBC) | Wildcard (TBC) |
At the tournaments in Paris and Zagreb, three players with wild cards (to be confirmed) take part alongside the seeded players, while four wild cards will compete in St. Louis.
