The 2023 Pro Chess League is a $150,000 team tournament taking place on chess.com. The event features 16 teams with participation of Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri and other world top players. The teams will compete in an elimination Swiss played over five weeks, followed by an eight-team single-elimination playoff. At the end of the third week, the top two teams will advance to the playoffs and the bottom two teams will be eliminated. The remaining teams will play another round with the top three teams from each week advancing to the playoffs while the bottom teams get eliminated.

Teams & Compositions:

Berlin Bears

• GM Anton Korobov
• GM Rasmus Svane
• GM Dmitrij Kollars
• GM Niclas Huschenbeth
• GM Arik Braun
• GM Frederik Svane
• WGM Josefine Heinemann
• WGM Sarah Papp

Blitz

• GM Alexander Grischuk
• GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
• GM Etienne Bacrot
• GM Matthieu Cornette
• GM Maxime Lagarde
• FM Mahel Boyer
• IM Deimante Daulyte-Cornette

Brazil Capybaras

• GM Sandro Mareco
• GM Luis Paulo Supi
• GM Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara
• GM Alexandr Fier
• GM Krikor Mekhitarian
• WGM Irina Bulmaga
• FM Julia Alboredo

California Unicorns

• GM Gukesh D
• GM Sam Shankland
• GM Ray Robson
• GM Illya Nyzhnyk
• GM Dariusz Swiercz
• GM Georg Meier
• GM Christopher Yoo
• GM Andrew Hong
• WGM Sabina-Francesca Foisor

Charlotte Cobras

• GM Grigoriy Oparin
• GM Awonder Liang
• GM Daniel Naroditsky
• GM Brandon Jacobson
• GM Elshan Moradiabadi
• GM Irina Krush
• IM Nazi Paikidze
• FM Gabriela Antova

Canada Chessbrahs

• GM Magnus Carlsen
• GM Anish Giri
• GM Jorden van Foreest
• GM Ivan Saric
• GM Aryan Tari
• GM Eric Hansen
• GM Razvan Preotu
• IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux
• WGM Jennifer Yu
• WGM Maili-Jade Ouellet

Croatia Bulldogs

• GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac
• GM Leon Livaic
• GM Sasa Martinovic
• GM Ante Saric
• IM Bardiya Daneshvar
• IM Polina Shuvalova
• IM Eline Roebers

Garden State Passers

• GM Samuel Sevian
• GM Gadir Guseinov
• GM Aleksandr Lenderman
• GM Abhimanyu Mishra
• GM Bela Khotenashvili
• IM Carissa Yip
• WIM Meruert Kamalidenova
• FM James Canty

Gotham Knights

• GM Hikaru Nakamura
• GM Quang Liem Le
• GM Vladimir Fedoseev
• IM Mykola Bortnyk
• IM Andy Woodward
• IM Nataliya Buksa
• IM Nurgyul Salimova

Indian Yogis

• GM Vidit Gujrathi
• GM Praggnanandhaa R
• GM Nihal Sarin
• GM Raunak Sadhwani
• GM Chithambaram VR Aravindh
• GM Abdulla Gadimbayli
• IM Aronyak Ghosh
• IM Elisabeth Paehtz
• WGM Vaishali R
• IM Pranesh M

Levitov Chess Wizards

• GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
• GM Daniil Dubov
• GM Alexey Sarana
• GM Rauf Mamedov
• GM David Paravyan
• GM Aleksandr Shimanov
• GM Denis Lazavik
• GM Alexandra Kosteniuk
• GM Valentina Gunina

Norway Gnomes

• GM A R  Saleh Salem
• GM David Howell
• GM Gawain Jones
• GM Pranav V
• IM Elham Abdrlauf
• GM Sankalp Gupta
• GM Nino Batsiashvili
• WGM Laura Unuk

Shanghai Tigers

• GM Yi Wei
• GM Ni Hua
• GM Zhang Zhong
• GM Wenjun Ju
• GM Yi Xu
• IM Yiping Lou
• Renjie Huang
• WGM Shiqun Ni
• Mao Yingzhou

Saint Louis Archbishops

• GM Fabiano Caruana
• GM Leinier Dominguez Perez
• GM Jeffery Xiong
• GM Benjamin Bok
• GM Nikolas Theodorou
• GM Alejandro Ramirez
• WGM Rochelle Wu
• WIM Alice Lee
• NM Julian Proleiko
• WFM Sophie Morris-Suzuki

Team MGD1

• GM Arjun Erigaisi
• GM Narayanan S L
• GM Adhiban B
• GM Diptayan Shosh
• GM Harika Dronavalli
• GM Mitrabha Guha
• WFM Savitha Shri B

Spanish Maniac Shrimps

• GM Jaime Santos Latasa
• GM Alan Pichot
• GM Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli
• GM Miguel Santos Ruiz
• GM Jose Carlos Ibarra Jerez
• GM Jose Fernando Cuenca Jimenez
• GM Lance Henderson de La Fuente
• IM Karina Ambartsumova
• IM Sabrina Vega Gutierrez