Both tournaments are 12-player single round robins. The match days are October 9-14 and October 16-20.
The time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move from the first move.
The total guaranteed prize fund is 11 million rubles: 7 million rubles in the open section and 4 million rubles in the women’s tournament.
Commentary by GMs Aleksandr Shimanov and Evgenij Miroshnichenko