Challengers - players
Nijat Abasov
Title: GM
Age: 24
Rating: 2670
Jorden van Foreest
Title: GM
Age: 20
Rating: 2667
Andrey Esipenko
Title: GM
Age: 17
Rating: 2654
Mateusz Bartel
Title: GM
Age: 35
Rating: 2639
Kacper Piorun
Title: GM
Age: 28
Rating: 2611
Thai Dai Van Nguyen
Title: GM
Age: 18
Rating: 2560
Thai Dai Van Nguyen is the youngest Czech Grandmaster, 2013 European Youth bronze medalist and winner of 2017 First Saturday Grandmaster tournament.
Jan Krejčí
Title: GM
Age: 27
Rating: 2559
Hannes Stefansson
Title: GM
Age: 47
Rating: 2529
Tadeáš Kriebel
Title: IM
Age: 24
Rating: 2524
Lukáš Černoušek
Title: IM
Age: 36
Rating: 2442