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New in Chess Classic
April 16, 2021
From Colin McGourty at chess24
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/car...-chess-classic
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen will exchange commentating on the Candidates Tournament for playing as he returns to action in the New in Chess Classic, the 5th event on the $1.5 million Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. He’ll be joined on Saturday April 24th by 15 players who include tour leader Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja and 15-year-old Polgar Challenge winner Praggnanandhaa. The tour days will kick off at 19:00 CEST, when the action in Yekaterinburg should be winding down.
The chess world’s leading print magazine New in Chess is the name sponsor of the $100,000 5th event on the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. The New in Chess Classic will be focussing on “great moments in chess history”, and the stellar line-up gives us every chance of getting some new moments that will live long in the memory.
Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave are playing in the Candidates Tournament and therefore couldn’t accept their automatic qualifying spots for those in the top 8 of the tour standings, but Wesley So, Magnus Carlsen, Teimour Radjabov, Levon Aronian and Hikaru Nakamura all play.
17-year-old superstar Alireza Firouzja was voted back in by chess24 premium members, who also voted for Daniil Dubov, but the Russian was unable to play as he’s commentating on the Candidates from Yekaterinburg.
This time there were as many as nine wildcards, with returning stars Mamedyarov, Dominguez, Karjakin, Duda, Vidit and Liem Quang Le, while there are tour debuts for England’s Gawain Jones and Norway’s young talents Aryan Tari and Johan-Sebastian Christiansen. Aryan narrowly missed out in the qualifier for the Magnus Carlsen Invitational, while Johan-Sebastian had to pull out at the last moment after being forced to go to hospital.
The New in Chess Classic runs non-stop for 9 days from April 24 to May 2 and retains the same cut-throat formula of a 3-day round-robin after which the field will be reduced to 8 players before the knockout begins. Days 1, 2 and 4 will overlap with Rounds 12, 13 and 14 of the Candidates Tournament in Yekaterinburg, but while games start at 13:00 CEST there, the Tour events will start at 19:00 CEST.
The players will once again be playing rapid chess in the chess24 Playzone, with 15 minutes per game and a 10-second increment per move. The knockout stages will feature two days of 4-game rapid matches, and if the match score is 1:1 after the second match they’ll play two 5+3 blitz games followed, if needed, by an Armageddon game, where White has 5 minutes to Black’s 4 but a draw counts as a win for Black.
The Field
1 Magnus Carlsen
2 Levon Aronian
3 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
4 Wesley So
5 Teimour Radjabov
6 Alireza Firouzja
7 Leinier Dominguez
8 Sergey Karjakin
9 Hikaru Nakamura
10 Jan-Krzysztof Duda
11 Vidit Gujrathi
12 Liem Quang Le
13 Gawain Jones
14 Aryan Tari
15 Johan-Sebastian Christiansen
16 Praggnanandhaa, R.
Tournament Schedule
April 24 Day 1, Preliminaries
April 25 Day 2, Preliminaries
April 26 Day 3, Preliminaries
April 27 Day 1, Quarterfinals
April 28 Day 2, Quarterfinals
April 29 Day 1, Semifinals
April 30 Day 2, Semifinals
May 1 Day 1, Finals
May 2 Day 2, Finals
All rounds begin at 1:00 PM ET
April 16, 2021
From Colin McGourty at chess24
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/car...-chess-classic
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen will exchange commentating on the Candidates Tournament for playing as he returns to action in the New in Chess Classic, the 5th event on the $1.5 million Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. He’ll be joined on Saturday April 24th by 15 players who include tour leader Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja and 15-year-old Polgar Challenge winner Praggnanandhaa. The tour days will kick off at 19:00 CEST, when the action in Yekaterinburg should be winding down.
The chess world’s leading print magazine New in Chess is the name sponsor of the $100,000 5th event on the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. The New in Chess Classic will be focussing on “great moments in chess history”, and the stellar line-up gives us every chance of getting some new moments that will live long in the memory.
Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave are playing in the Candidates Tournament and therefore couldn’t accept their automatic qualifying spots for those in the top 8 of the tour standings, but Wesley So, Magnus Carlsen, Teimour Radjabov, Levon Aronian and Hikaru Nakamura all play.
17-year-old superstar Alireza Firouzja was voted back in by chess24 premium members, who also voted for Daniil Dubov, but the Russian was unable to play as he’s commentating on the Candidates from Yekaterinburg.
This time there were as many as nine wildcards, with returning stars Mamedyarov, Dominguez, Karjakin, Duda, Vidit and Liem Quang Le, while there are tour debuts for England’s Gawain Jones and Norway’s young talents Aryan Tari and Johan-Sebastian Christiansen. Aryan narrowly missed out in the qualifier for the Magnus Carlsen Invitational, while Johan-Sebastian had to pull out at the last moment after being forced to go to hospital.
The New in Chess Classic runs non-stop for 9 days from April 24 to May 2 and retains the same cut-throat formula of a 3-day round-robin after which the field will be reduced to 8 players before the knockout begins. Days 1, 2 and 4 will overlap with Rounds 12, 13 and 14 of the Candidates Tournament in Yekaterinburg, but while games start at 13:00 CEST there, the Tour events will start at 19:00 CEST.
The players will once again be playing rapid chess in the chess24 Playzone, with 15 minutes per game and a 10-second increment per move. The knockout stages will feature two days of 4-game rapid matches, and if the match score is 1:1 after the second match they’ll play two 5+3 blitz games followed, if needed, by an Armageddon game, where White has 5 minutes to Black’s 4 but a draw counts as a win for Black.
The Field
1 Magnus Carlsen
2 Levon Aronian
3 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
4 Wesley So
5 Teimour Radjabov
6 Alireza Firouzja
7 Leinier Dominguez
8 Sergey Karjakin
9 Hikaru Nakamura
10 Jan-Krzysztof Duda
11 Vidit Gujrathi
12 Liem Quang Le
13 Gawain Jones
14 Aryan Tari
15 Johan-Sebastian Christiansen
16 Praggnanandhaa, R.
Tournament Schedule
April 24 Day 1, Preliminaries
April 25 Day 2, Preliminaries
April 26 Day 3, Preliminaries
April 27 Day 1, Quarterfinals
April 28 Day 2, Quarterfinals
April 29 Day 1, Semifinals
April 30 Day 2, Semifinals
May 1 Day 1, Finals
May 2 Day 2, Finals
All rounds begin at 1:00 PM ET
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