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Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals
August 8, 2020
About The Tour:
https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...hess-tour-2020
From chess24 by Colin McGourty
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/mag...s-set-to-begin
Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals set to begin
Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren, Hikaru Nakamura and Daniil Dubov begin battle this Sunday for the highest ever prize in online chess. The best of five sets semi-finals of the $1 million Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour see Carlsen take on Ding Liren while Nakamura plays Dubov, before the winners compete in a best of seven sets final for the $140,000 top prize. Yasser Seirawan, Peter Leko and Tania Sachdev will commentate in English
How did the players qualify?
The route to the Finals of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour was simple – the winner of any of the four qualifying events was automatically in. That meant Daniil Dubov, who won the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge, and Magnus Carlsen… though here it got more complicated, since Magnus won all the other events! The two remaining places went to the next best performing players on the tour – Hikaru Nakamura, who was runner-up twice (10 * 2 = 20 points) and got to the quarterfinals once (3 points), and Ding Liren, who reached three semi-finals (7 * 3 = 21 points).
What’s at stake?
The players are all guaranteed $40,000 for making it through to the Finals, with the runner-up earning $80,000 and the winner a whopping $140,000.
What’s the format?
The format is one that’s become familiar to viewers of the Tour – and that Magnus proposed in late 2018 as a better way of determining the World Chess Champion than playing one classical game a day. Each day the players play a 4-game 15+10 rapid match, or set, to use the tennis term. There must be a winner. If the rapid games finish 2:2 then two 5+3 blitz games are played, and if the score is still tied then an Armageddon game is played where White has 5 minutes to Black’s 4 but a draw means that Black wins the set.
In the previous tournaments we saw best-of-3 matches, while this time the semi-finals will be best-of-5 (i.e. the first player to win 3 sets wins) and the final best-of-7 (first to 4 wins).
Where and when can I watch?
The matches are being played on chess24 and start tomorrow, at 16:00 CEST on Sunday 9th August. There will be 12 days of non-stop action until Thursday 20th August, unless players win their matches early.
Chess24 English commentary team will feature Yasser Seirawan, Peter Leko and Tania Sachdev, and it isl also be streaming live in another 9 languages. For instance, Jan Gustafsson and Rustam Kasimdzhanov will be commentating in German.
The live show will start half an hour before the games, at 15:30 CEST.
Who are Kiva?
Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 in San Francisco, with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive.
Comments
How come Rustam knows German also? This guy is good.
Kasimdzhanov lives in Germany - "since many years" according to Chessbase.
On another note, Dubov's memorable rapid win against Nakamura at Tal Memorial 2018 might be worthwhile mentioning. He had sacrificed three (3) pawns by move 14 - objectively it was "just a draw" but the onus was on black to prove it.
Good to have a creative player like him in the final - Carlsen (while using/benefitting from Dubov's creativity) and since many years Nakamura are mainly pragmatic players, focus on playing fast and avoiding mistakes.
See also:
Legends of Chess
https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...-of-chess-2020
August 8, 2020
About The Tour:
https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...hess-tour-2020
From chess24 by Colin McGourty
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/mag...s-set-to-begin
Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals set to begin
Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren, Hikaru Nakamura and Daniil Dubov begin battle this Sunday for the highest ever prize in online chess. The best of five sets semi-finals of the $1 million Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour see Carlsen take on Ding Liren while Nakamura plays Dubov, before the winners compete in a best of seven sets final for the $140,000 top prize. Yasser Seirawan, Peter Leko and Tania Sachdev will commentate in English
How did the players qualify?
The route to the Finals of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour was simple – the winner of any of the four qualifying events was automatically in. That meant Daniil Dubov, who won the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge, and Magnus Carlsen… though here it got more complicated, since Magnus won all the other events! The two remaining places went to the next best performing players on the tour – Hikaru Nakamura, who was runner-up twice (10 * 2 = 20 points) and got to the quarterfinals once (3 points), and Ding Liren, who reached three semi-finals (7 * 3 = 21 points).
What’s at stake?
The players are all guaranteed $40,000 for making it through to the Finals, with the runner-up earning $80,000 and the winner a whopping $140,000.
What’s the format?
The format is one that’s become familiar to viewers of the Tour – and that Magnus proposed in late 2018 as a better way of determining the World Chess Champion than playing one classical game a day. Each day the players play a 4-game 15+10 rapid match, or set, to use the tennis term. There must be a winner. If the rapid games finish 2:2 then two 5+3 blitz games are played, and if the score is still tied then an Armageddon game is played where White has 5 minutes to Black’s 4 but a draw means that Black wins the set.
In the previous tournaments we saw best-of-3 matches, while this time the semi-finals will be best-of-5 (i.e. the first player to win 3 sets wins) and the final best-of-7 (first to 4 wins).
Where and when can I watch?
The matches are being played on chess24 and start tomorrow, at 16:00 CEST on Sunday 9th August. There will be 12 days of non-stop action until Thursday 20th August, unless players win their matches early.
Chess24 English commentary team will feature Yasser Seirawan, Peter Leko and Tania Sachdev, and it isl also be streaming live in another 9 languages. For instance, Jan Gustafsson and Rustam Kasimdzhanov will be commentating in German.
The live show will start half an hour before the games, at 15:30 CEST.
Who are Kiva?
Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 in San Francisco, with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive.
Comments
How come Rustam knows German also? This guy is good.
Kasimdzhanov lives in Germany - "since many years" according to Chessbase.
On another note, Dubov's memorable rapid win against Nakamura at Tal Memorial 2018 might be worthwhile mentioning. He had sacrificed three (3) pawns by move 14 - objectively it was "just a draw" but the onus was on black to prove it.
Good to have a creative player like him in the final - Carlsen (while using/benefitting from Dubov's creativity) and since many years Nakamura are mainly pragmatic players, focus on playing fast and avoiding mistakes.
See also:
Legends of Chess
https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...-of-chess-2020
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