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The 2019 Croatia Grand Chess Tour tournament will be the first of two classical events and the second stop on the 2019 Grand Chess Tour. The tournament is hosted in partnership between the Grand Chess Tour and Chess Club e4 from Zagreb and will see all 12 full tour participants compete over 11 rounds of classical chess for a prize fund of $325, 000.
DATES
June 26 – July 8, 2019
VENUES
Mimara Museum (Opening Ceremony) & Novinarski Dom (Tournament Games)
FORMAT
12 Player Round Robin
PRIZE FUND
$325,000
Participants
1 Vishy Anand
2 Levon Aronian
3 Fabiano Caruana
4 Magnus Carlsen
5 Ding Liren
6 Anish Giri
7 Sergey Karjakin
8 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
9 Hikaru Nakamura
10 Ian Nepomniachtchi
11 Wesley So
12 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Schedule
Round 1 June 26
Round 2 June 27
Round 3 June 28
Round 4 June 29
Round 5 June 30
Round 6 July 1
Rest Day
Round 7 July 3
Round 8 July 4
Round 9 July 5
Round 10 July 6
Round 11 July 7
Playoff (if required) July 8
Starting time 16:30 (GMT+1) – 10:30AM Toronto/Montreal
I'll be in Paris on vacation with my family. My kids would be very happy to see some of their chess heroes. Does anyone know where the tournament is going to take place?
Remember the other dates on the Grand Chess Tour 2019:
Paris Rapid & Blitz July 26-August 2
Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz August 8-15
The Sinquefield Cup August 15-30
Superbest Rapid & Blitz Bucharest November 4-11
Tata Steel India Rapid & Blitz November 20-27
The Final Four Face Off in London November 30-December 10
Maurice Ashley promotional video for the Croatia Grand Chess Tour
Maurice: Hello everyone and welcome to Belgrade, Serbia. We are standing in front of the historic Sava Centar. It is an absolutely historic place in the history of chess because, in first place, Garry Kasparov became the first player to ever break the 2800 barrier, right here in this building in 1990 and, two years later, Boris Spassky played against Bobby Fischer in a return match, which saw Fischer return to playing chess twenty years after winning in 1972.
A great place in the history of chess. I’m excited to be here. I couldn’t imagine when growing up watching these historic events unfold that I would one day be standing on this historic spot.
You can also see his breakfast at the Berry Bar on Skadarlija Street in the Bohemian Quarter of Belgrade.
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In November 19-27, 1989, Garry Kasparov played in Belgrade garnering first prize with 9.5 out of 12 ahead of Ehlvest, Timman, Yusupov, Ljubojevic, Hjartarson, Agdestein etc. Garry’s result of three points ahead of the field, put his ELO rating over 2800 and that was awarded in January of 1990.
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I certainly don’t want to argue politics but this stop in the Grand Chess Tour says “Croatia” and the tournament takes place in Serbia. One assumes some form of cooperation between the two.
No competition. Tournament takes place in Zagreb, capital of Croatia.
Maurice probably visited Belgrade, capital of Serbia, while he was there as Zagreb & Belgrade are only about 400km apart.
He also visited Kalemegdan park where people play chess outdoor. It looks like he missed big traditional simultaneous chess game in Belgrade.
Houska, Seirawan and Ramirez and commentating in English
Miroshnichenko and Khachiyan in Russian
Rabiega and Berger in German
Cuenca and Anton in Spanish
16:30 Zagreb time is 10:30 AM Toronto/Montreal (starting time)
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Wednesday, 26th June, 2019, 10:58 AM.
Maurice Ashley: Giri plays 17.Qa4 and immediately bells go off – The Queen’s away and the mice will play – because you don’t put the queen so far from your King – it will cause problems in the long run.
At the post-game interview with Maurice - Vishy Anand - "At one point I thought it was over. He's won harder endgames than this, and I've lost easier ones."
Round 2, June 27
Ding, Liren – Karjakin, Sergey
E00 Queen’s Pawn game
- Looks like Nepo will be on 3 of 3
- Ian is playing crazy chess eery day
- Nepo doesn’t even bother to spend time on thinking
- Mame didn’t make any serious blunder and his position is lost
- Nepo close to getting into the 2800 club
-Nepo has finally broken through. This might be his time to contend for the Candidates
- I would love to see a Nepo-Carlsen WCC match
Round 3, June 28
MVL – Ding, Liren
C50 Giuoco Piano
You mean spending half an hour answering questions from callers and ignoring the actual games? That's what's happening on the live broadcasts right now. Three callers in a row asking questions I don't care about and the actual games completely ignored for close to half an hour. This is "entertainment"?
I appreciate the grandmaster's opinions about the games, I really enjoy that. On other things they are just as stupid as me!
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