FIDE publishes the Player’s Contract for Participation in the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss 2019. The tournament will be held in the Isle of Man from 10 to 21 October, and is expected to be the strongest Swiss-system tournament in the history of chess. The prize fund will be US$432,500, with a first prize of $70,000.
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List of players qualified for the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss
| Name | Avg July 18 – June 19 | Total Games |
| Carlsen, Magnus | 2844.8333 | 76 |
| Caruana, Fabiano | 2825.0000 | 66 |
| Ding, Liren | 2807.2500 | 71 |
| Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | 2801.7500 | 68 |
| Giri, Anish | 2785.4167 | 71 |
| Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | 2778.6667 | 92 |
| Anand, Viswanathan | 2772.5000 | 69 |
| Grischuk, Alexander | 2770.2500 | 46 |
| Kramnik, Vladimir | 2768.7500 | 37 |
| Nepomniachtchi, Ian | 2767.0000 | 64 |
| So, Wesley | 2767.0000 | 62 |
| Aronian, Levon | 2766.3333 | 64 |
| Yu, Yangyi | 2758.0833 | 90 |
| Nakamura, Hikaru | 2756.4167 | 67 |
| Karjakin, Sergey | 2756.1667 | 53 |
| Radjabov, Teimour | 2755.0833 | 34 |
| Svidler, Peter | 2742.7500 | 41 |
| Topalov, Veselin | 2741.1667 | 13 |
| Navara, David | 2736.7500 | 108 |
| Duda, Jan-Krzysztof | 2734.6667 | 59 |
| Wei, Yi | 2734.0000 | 68 |
| Harikrishna, Pentala | 2731.3333 | 87 |
| Jakovenko, Dmitry | 2729.5000 | 78 |
| Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | 2728.8333 | 72 |
| Rapport, Richard | 2728.7500 | 68 |
| Shankland, Sam | 2724.3333 | 72 |
| Vitiugov, Nikita | 2724.0000 | 85 |
| Bu, Xiangzhi | 2722.8333 | 51 |
| Wang, Hao | 2721.8333 | 105 |
| Artemiev, Vladislav | 2721.1667 | 81 |
| Andreikin, Dmitry | 2719.1667 | 64 |
| Le, Quang Liem | 2713.4167 | 102 |
| Naiditsch, Arkadij | 2713.0833 | 134 |
| Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi | 2708.8333 | 89 |
| Fedoseev, Vladimir | 2707.5833 | 94 |
| Li, Chao b | 2703.6667 | 48 |
| Tomashevsky, Evgeny | 2703.5000 | 36 |
| Adams, Michael | 2703.3333 | 70 |
| Ivanchuk, Vassily | 2703.3333 | 59 |
| Amin, Bassem | 2700.3333 | 89 |
| Vallejo Pons, Francisco | 2699.2500 | 58 |
| Dubov, Daniil | 2699.0833 | 44 |
| Cheparinov, Ivan | 2696.4167 | 100 |
| Matlakov, Maxim | 2693.4167 | 63 |
| Kryvoruchko, Yuriy | 2692.6667 | 63 |
| Howell, David W L | 2691.9167 | 83 |
| Sadler, Matthew D | 2691.5000 | 7 |
| Saric, Ivan | 2690.8333 | 124 |
| Inarkiev, Ernesto | 2690.1667 | 90 |
| Mamedov, Rauf | 2689.7500 | 62 |
| Almasi, Zoltan | 2689.6667 | 39 |
| Ragger, Markus | 2687.8333 | 98 |
| Sargissian, Gabriel | 2686.5000 | 28 |
| Korobov, Anton | 2685.7500 | 100 |
| Jones, Gawain C B | 2685.4167 | 103 |
| Bacrot, Etienne | 2684.0833 | 94 |
| Wang, Yue | 2683.5000 | 28 |
| Nabaty, Tamir | 2683.4167 | 54 |
| Adhiban, B. | 2682.8333 | 77 |
| Eljanov, Pavel | 2682.7500 | 84 |
| Gelfand, Boris | 2681.4167 | 61 |
| Cori, Jorge | 2679.4167 | 34 |
| Rodshtein, Maxim | 2678.5833 | 94 |
| Ni, Hua | 2677.5833 | 35 |
| Kovalev, Vladislav | 2677.1667 | 98 |
| Grandelius, Nils | 2676.0833 | 97 |
| Leko, Peter | 2676.0833 | 47 |
| Demchenko, Anton | 2673.7500 | 73 |
| Ponomariov, Ruslan | 2673.2500 | 48 |
| Sasikiran, Krishnan | 2673.1667 | 64 |
| McShane, Luke J | 2671.2500 | 50 |
| Berkes, Ferenc | 2670.8333 | 68 |
| Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | 2670.5833 | 95 |
| Kamsky, Gata | 2668.7500 | 43 |
| Robson, Ray | 2668.5000 | 51 |
| Maghsoodloo, Parham | 2667.1667 | 132 |
| Xiong, Jeffery | 2667.0000 | 125 |
| Laznicka, Viktor | 2666.6667 | 71 |
| Najer, Evgeniy | 2666.6667 | 31 |
| Malakhov, Vladimir | 2665.1667 | 80 |
| Sjugirov, Sanan | 2663.1667 | 67 |
| Salem, A.R. Saleh | 2662.5000 | 37 |
| Melkumyan, Hrant | 2661.9167 | 82 |
| Guseinov, Gadir | 2661.2500 | 59 |
| Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | 2660.0833 | 62 |
| Hou, Yifan | 2660.0833 | 7 |
| Safarli, Eltaj | 2659.7500 | 121 |
| Areshchenko, Alexander | 2659.3333 | 13 |
| Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | 2659.1667 | 29 |
| Dreev, Aleksey | 2658.7500 | 63 |
| Swiercz, Dariusz | 2658.5000 | 88 |
| Kuzubov, Yuriy | 2655.1667 | 129 |
| Rausis, Igors | 2654.5833 | 78 |
| Motylev, Alexander | 2653.2500 | 34 |
| Mareco, Sandro | 2652.3333 | 118 |
| Hammer, Jon Ludvig | 2651.8333 | 47 |
| Anton Guijarro, David | 2651.1667 | 83 |
| Akopian, Vladimir | 2650.8333 | 9 |
| Kovalenko, Igor | 2650.5833 | 89 |
| Sethuraman, S.P. | 2650.0000 | 105 |
| Reserves | ||
| Lenic, Luka | 2650.0000 | 21 |
| Ipatov, Alexander | 2649.5000 | 15 |
| Riazantsev, Alexander | 2649.3333 | 20 |
| Shirov, Alexei | 2648.3333 | 92 |
| Onischuk, Alexander | 2647.5000 | 7 |
| Fressinet, Laurent | 2646.4167 | 68 |
| Sevian, Samuel | 2646.1667 | 104 |
| Moiseenko, Alexander | 2645.6667 | 50 |
| Short, Nigel D | 2645.1667 | 41 |
| Edouard, Romain | 2644.0833 | 113 |
| L’Ami, Erwin | 2642.3333 | 69 |
| Parligras, Mircea-Emilian | 2642.0000 | 75 |
| Granda Zuniga, Julio E | 2641.3333 | 53 |
| Zvjaginsev, Vadim | 2641.1667 | 64 |
| Bauer, Christian | 2640.8333 | 116 |
| Gustafsson, Jan | 2640.6667 | 18 |
| Kravtsiv, Martyn | 2640.5000 | 83 |
| Papaioannou, Ioannis | 2639.0833 | 20 |
| Bok, Benjamin | 2638.6667 | 49 |
| Alekseenko, Kirill | 2638.0000 | 90 |