2018 Grand Chess Tour: Events, (Some) Dates, and Participants are Set

All the details are here. Magnus Carlsen declined his invitation this year, and Vladimir Kramnik did too (as usual). Six of the Candidates did sign up, however: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian, Wesley So, Alexander Grischuk, and Sergey Karjakin; additionally, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Viswanathan Anand, and Hikaru Nakamura are joining the party. Kramnik will be a wildcard in Paris, and Anish Giri will participate as a wildcard in Leuven. As for the two St. Louis events, the wildcard remains open. Maybe someone with the initials G.K. will perform an encore?