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Legends of Chess 2020
July 13, 2020
Chess24 Legends of Chess
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/che...e82d-161154725
World Champion Magnus Carlsen will be joined by his great predecessors Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik for the chess24 Legends of Chess, the 4th and final event before the Grand Final of the $1 million Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour. Boris Gelfand, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Peter Leko and Peter Svidler are the other legends invited to take part alongside qualifiers Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren.
The event runs from Tuesday July 21st to Wednesday August 5th.
The chess24 Legends of Chess is a 10-player super-tournament with a twist. The four semi-finalists of the Chessable Masters — Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Anish Giri — received an automatic invite, making the tournament’s top seeds four hungry Top 10 players in the prime of their chess careers, aged 26-30.
Up against them are six legends aged 40-52, who have been at the top of world chess for two and in some cases well over three decades (the age here is when the event begins — Nepo's birthday is tomorrow!).
The Field
Magnus Carlsen
Ding Liren
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Anish Giri
Vishy Anand
Vladimir Kramnik
Peter Svidler
Vasyl Ivanchuk
Boris Gelfand
Peter Leko
Format
The chess24 Legends of Chess will begin with a 10-player round-robin preliminary stage played over the first 9 days, with each match best of four 15+10 rapid games. If tied 2:2 we’ll get an Armageddon game, where White has 5 minutes to Black’s 4, but a draw means Black wins the match. There are 3 points for a win without Armageddon, while if the match goes to Armageddon the winner gets 2 points and the loser 1.
The top 4 then go forward to a knockout, with the semi-finals and final played as best of 3 sets, and each set a 4-game rapid match. The only difference to the preliminary stage clashes is that if a match finishes 2:2 there will also be two 5+3 blitz games before Armageddon.
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The longer preliminary stage in the Legends ensures that we’ll get to see matches between all the participants, including the World Championship rematches Carlsen-Anand and Kramnik-Anand as well as matches we’d have loved to have seen such as Carlsen-Kramnik and Kramnik-Ivanchuk.
The total prize fund is $150,000, with $45,000 for the winner.
July 13, 2020
Chess24 Legends of Chess
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/che...e82d-161154725
World Champion Magnus Carlsen will be joined by his great predecessors Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik for the chess24 Legends of Chess, the 4th and final event before the Grand Final of the $1 million Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour. Boris Gelfand, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Peter Leko and Peter Svidler are the other legends invited to take part alongside qualifiers Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren.
The event runs from Tuesday July 21st to Wednesday August 5th.
The chess24 Legends of Chess is a 10-player super-tournament with a twist. The four semi-finalists of the Chessable Masters — Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Anish Giri — received an automatic invite, making the tournament’s top seeds four hungry Top 10 players in the prime of their chess careers, aged 26-30.
Up against them are six legends aged 40-52, who have been at the top of world chess for two and in some cases well over three decades (the age here is when the event begins — Nepo's birthday is tomorrow!).
The Field
Magnus Carlsen
Ding Liren
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Anish Giri
Vishy Anand
Vladimir Kramnik
Peter Svidler
Vasyl Ivanchuk
Boris Gelfand
Peter Leko
Format
The chess24 Legends of Chess will begin with a 10-player round-robin preliminary stage played over the first 9 days, with each match best of four 15+10 rapid games. If tied 2:2 we’ll get an Armageddon game, where White has 5 minutes to Black’s 4, but a draw means Black wins the match. There are 3 points for a win without Armageddon, while if the match goes to Armageddon the winner gets 2 points and the loser 1.
The top 4 then go forward to a knockout, with the semi-finals and final played as best of 3 sets, and each set a 4-game rapid match. The only difference to the preliminary stage clashes is that if a match finishes 2:2 there will also be two 5+3 blitz games before Armageddon.
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The longer preliminary stage in the Legends ensures that we’ll get to see matches between all the participants, including the World Championship rematches Carlsen-Anand and Kramnik-Anand as well as matches we’d have loved to have seen such as Carlsen-Kramnik and Kramnik-Ivanchuk.
The total prize fund is $150,000, with $45,000 for the winner.
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