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The 2019 Cote d’Ivoire Rapid & Blitz is one of four new events that will be joining the Grand Chess Tour roster in 2019. The tournament has been made possible by a partnership between Vivendi SA, Canal+ Group and the Pullman Abidjan Hotel. The tournament will be the first stop on the 2019 Grand Chess Tour and will be the first tournament on the African continent to ever feature the participation of the reigning world chess champion. Participants will compete over 9 rounds of rapid chess and 18 rounds of blitz chess for a total prize fund of $150,000.
DATES
May 8 - 12, 2019
VENUE
Pullman Abidjan Hotel
FORMAT
10 Player Round Robin
PRIZE FUND
$150,000
Participants
Magnus Carlsen
Hikaru Nakamura
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Ding Liren
Wesley So
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Sergey Karjakin
Wei Yi
Veselin Topalov
Bassem Amin
Schedule
Rapid
May 8 Rounds 1-3
May 9 Rounds 4-6
May 10 Rounds 7-9
Blitz
May 11 Rounds 1-9
May 12 Rounds 10-18
First game starts at 15:00 GMT (11 AM Toronto/Montreal)
Magnus Carlsen on Abidjan: "I'm excited. It will probably be my only opportunity to go to Cote d’Ivoire. It’s exotic for sure. It will be the first time I or any sitting world champion plays in Africa. I specifically chose to play there.”
The rapid tournament is a single round-robin with a time control of 25 minutes for all moves and a 10-second delay from move 1. As in earlier editions of the tour, it will be played over three days with three rounds per day.
The blitz section, starting on May 11, is a double round-robin competition over two days, with a time control of five minutes and a three-second delay. The final standings will combine the rapid standings, where games count double, and the blitz standings.
The results of the Côte d’Ivoire Rapid & Blitz, combined with the standings of four more speed chess and two classical tournaments, will decide the four qualifiers for the final phase of the Grand Chess Tour in London for a whopping prize fund of $1.75 million in the whole tour.
The other main players of the tour are Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri and Viswanathan Anand. They will be active in subsequent events.
The first rapid round will start today at 5 p.m. local time (GMT) which is 19:00 CEST, 1 p.m. Eastern and 10 a.m. Pacific.
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I could not recall another such event taking place in Africa but chess24 reminded me of these this morning:
The 2004 FIDE World Chess Championship, won by Rustam Kasimdzhanov, took place in Tripoli, Libya and Bobby Fischer was among the participants in the 1967 Interzonal in Sousse, Tunisia, but there have been very few events of this calibre ever played in Africa, and certainly Sub-Saharan Africa. Magnus Carlsen may be the first reigning World Chess Champion to play an official competitive game on the continent, but some things are the same everywhere!
There is a video taken from yesterday’s game of Nepo vs Carlsen, where they both break into giggles. Funny as hell. It was during the Spanish broadcast. Perhaps someone can tell me what was happening:
Tarjei J. Svensen - The World Blitz Champion's incredible run of 70 games in all formats without a loss comes to an end as he is beaten by Vachier-Lagrave.
Fabiano Caruana dropped in at the studios to help with the commentary.
I should say at this point that the broadcast has been first-class, no glitches at all in transmission, superb camera work and Tania Sachdev and Yannick Pelletier with help from Alejandro Ramirez and Maurice Ashley have done a good job.
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