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Speed Chess Championship 2023
Format
Knock-out tournament. Each match consists of 90 minutes of 5+1 blitz games, 60 minutes of 3+1 blitz games and 30 minutes of 1+1 bullet games. In case of a tie, the players play four additional 1+1 games, and if necessary. an Armageddon game where the players bid the time.
Players
(chess.com ratings)
- Hikaru Nakamura 🇺🇸 3286
- Yu Yangyi 🇨🇳 3077
- Alireza Firouzja 🇫🇷 2896
- Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 2887
- Fabiano Caruana 🇺🇸 2813
Ding Liren 🇨🇳 2787Ian Nepomniachtchi 🏳️ 2785- Wesley So 🇺🇸 2765
- Levon Aronian 🇺🇸 2750
- Arjun Erigaisi 🇮🇳 2737
- Dmitry Andreikin 🏳️ 2736
- Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 🇫🇷 2722
- Nodirbek Abdusattorov 🇺🇿 2708
- Alexey Sarana 🇷🇸 2707
- Nihal Sarin 🇮🇳 2689
- Gukesh D 🇮🇳 2659
- Santosh Gujrathi Vidit 🇮🇳 2616
Schedule
Round of 16
- Nakamura vs Yu Yangyi: Sep 4, 13:00 UTC
- So vs Aronian: Sep 5, 18:00 UTC
- Sarin vs Sarana: Sep 6, 16:00 UTC
- Firouzja vs Andreikin: Sep 8, 17:00 UTC
- Liren vs Erigaisi: Sep 10, 13:00 UTC
- MVL vs Gukesh: Sep 11, 12:30 UTC
- Caruana vs Abdusattorov: Sep 11, 17:00 UTC
- Carlsen vs Vidit: Sep 12, 13:00 UTC
Quarterfinals
- QF1: Sep 13, 13:00 UTC
- QF2: Sep 14, 12:00 UTC
- QF3: Sep 15, 12:30 UTC
- QF4: Sep 15, 17:00 UTC
Semifinals
- SF1: Sep 19, 17:00 UTC
- SF2: Sep 20, 16:00 UTC
Final
Sep 22. 18:00 UTC
Links
https://www.chess.com/events/2023-speed-chess-championship-main-eventOpen linkView original on sopuli.xyz
Julius Baer Generation Cup
The Julius Baer Generation Cup is the 5th event on the 2023 Champions Chess Tour.
Format
The Julius Baer Generation Cup features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if one player loses one match he drops down to a Losers bracket and can still win the tournament. In the Grand Final if the player from the Winners bracket loses, there's a rematch.
The total prize fund is $235,000, with a top prize of $30,000 (150 Tour points) in Division I, $10,000 in Division II (50 points) and $5,000 (20 points) in Division III. The top 3 in Division I and the winner of Division II qualify straight to Division I of the next event on the Tour.
The time control for normal games is 15 minutes per player for all moves, with a 3-second increment each move. In Division I and II the Winners bracket matches are played over four games, while in the Losers bracket there are two games. In Division III all matches are over two games except the 4-game Grand Final. A tie in a match is decided by an Armageddon game with no increment, where the players bid for time they are willing to play with. The lowest bidder gets that time and can pick colour, while the opponent gets 15 minutes. Black only needs a draw to win the match.
Players
Division I
- Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 2835
- Fabiano Caruana 🇺🇸 2782
- Alireza Firouzja 🇫🇷 2777
- Wesley So 🇺🇸 2769
- Nodirbek Abdusattorov 🇺🇿 2725
- M. Amin Tabatabaei 🇮🇷 2696
- Pavel Eljanov 🇺🇦 2695
- Denis Lazavik 🏳️ 2560
Division II
- Ian Nepomniatchtchi 🏳️ 2779
- Levon Aronian 🇺🇸 2742
- Vladislav Artemiev 🏳️ 2698
- Alexey Sarana 🇷🇸 2685
- Nihal Sarin 🇮🇳 2684
- Bassem Amin 🇪🇬 2684
- Andrey Esipenko 🏳️ 2683
- Vladimir Fedoseev 🇸🇮 2676
- Laurent Fressinet 🇫🇷 2652
- Rauf Mamedov 🇦🇿 2633
- Nodirbek Yakubboev 🇺🇿 2630
- Eduardo Iturrizaga 🇪🇸 2617
- Maksim Chigaev 🇪🇸 2616
- Aleksey Dreev 🏳️ 2698
- Aydin Suleymanli 🇦🇿 2586
- Evgeny Alekseev 🇮🇱 2573
Division III
- Anish Giri 🇳🇱 2769
- Vladimir Kramnik 🏳️ 2753
- Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 🇦🇿 2747
- Dmitry Andreikin 🏳️ 2729
- Parham Maghsoodloo 🇮🇷 2702
- Samuel Sevian 🇺🇸 2698
- Igor Kovalenko 🇺🇦 2674
- Matthias Bluebaum 🇩🇪 2670
- Etienne Bacrot 🇫🇷 2662
- Jaime Santos Latasa 🇪🇸 2656
- Alan Pichot 🇪🇸 2642
- Gata Kamsky 🇺🇸 2641
- Shant Sargsyan 🇦🇲 2639
- Benjamin Gledura 🇭🇺 2637
- Georg Meier 🇺🇾 2629
- Yuriy Kuzubov 🇺🇦 2627
- Benjamin Bok 🇳🇱 2617
- Aram Hakobyan 🇦🇲 2612
- Samvel Ter-Sahakyan 🇦🇲 2609
- Olexandr Bortnyk 🇺🇦 2608
- Shamsiddin Vokhidov 🇺🇿 2597
- Nikolas Theodoru 🇬🇷 2586
- Constantin Lupulescu 🇷🇴 2584
- Bardiya Daneshvar 🇮🇷 2570
- Velimir Ivic 🇷🇸 2570
- Tuan Minh Le 🇻🇳 2559
- Vugar Rasulov 🇦🇿 2549
- Rudik Makarian 🏳️ 2546
- Nikita Meshkovs 🇱🇻 2544
- Diego Flores 🇦🇷 2534
- Pablo Salinas Herrera 🇨🇱 2464
- Garg Aradhya 🇮🇳 2395
Schedule
Division I
- Quarterfinals: 30th August
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:20 UTC
- Game 4: 16:55 UTC
- Game 5: 17:40 UTC
- Losers Round 1: 31st August
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:20 UTC
- Semifinals: 31st August
- Game 1: 16:50 UTC
- Game 2: 17:25 UTC
- Game 3: 18:10 UTC
- Game 4: 18:45 UTC
- Game 5: 19:30 UTC
- Losers Quarterfinals: 1st September
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:10 UTC
- Final: 1st September
- Game 1: 16:50 UTC
- Game 2: 17:25 UTC
- Game 3: 18:10 UTC
- Game 4: 18:45 UTC
- Game 5: 19:30 UTC
- Losers Final: 2nd September
- Game 1: 16:50 UTC
- Game 2: 17:25 UTC
- Game 3: 18:05 UTC
- Grand Final: 3rd September
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:20 UTC
- Game 4: 16:55 UTC
- Game 5: 17:40 UTC
- Grand Final Reset: 3rd September
- Game 1: 18:15 UTC
- Game 2: 18:50 UTC
- Game 3: 19:25 UTC
Links
World Rapid Team Championship
Format
The World Rapid Team Championship 2023 is a 12-round Swiss tournament featuring 43 teams. Each team is composed of at least six and not more than nine players, and it must include at least one female and one recreational player, who never achieved FIDE rating of 2000. Each match is played on six boards, with at least one female and one recreational player in every match.
The time control is 15 minutes for the entire game, with an increment of 10 seconds from the first move. Matches are scored by match points, with 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss. The team with the most match points will become the champion.
Participants
More than 300 players are participating, including Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Richard Rapport, Viswanathan Anand, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Praggnanandhaa R, Gukesh D, Arjun Erigaisi, Hou Yifan, and many more. You can check the complete line-up here
Schedule
- 26 August
- Round 1: 11:30 UTC
- Round 2: 13:30 UTC
- Round 3: 15:30 UTC
- Round 4: 17:30 UTC
- 27 August
- Round 5: 11:30 UTC
- Round 6: 13:30 UTC
- Round 7: 15:30 UTC
- Round 8: 17:30 UTC
- 28 August
- Round 9: 11:30 UTC
- Round 10: 13:30 UTC
- Round 11: 15:30 UTC
- Round 12: 17:30 UTC
Links
https://worldrapidteams2023.fide.com/Open linkView original on sopuli.xyz
