| FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup (2020) |
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The FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup was a team competition held from May 5-10, 2020, featuring Russia, USA, Europe, China, India, and a team representing the "Rest of the World". The games were played on the Chess.com live server. The first stage consisted of a double round-robin, with each team playing each other team twice. The top two teams after 10 rounds qualified for a "Superfinal" match - the winner of this match to be declared the winner of the FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup. If the Superfinal ended in a tie, the team that finished first in the group stage would be declared the winner. All matches were played on four boards: three with male players and one with female players. The time control for all games was 25 minutes + 10 seconds increment per move, starting from move one. The games started 15:00 CEST / 9 a.m. Eastern / 6 a.m. Pacific. The prize fund was $180,000, sponsored by Chess.com. Each participating team received US $24,000. The winner of the tournament received an extra $24,000, and the runner-up received an extra $12,000. Each player received the prize money as follows: his or her team's total prize divided by the number of games played by the player's team multiplied by the number of games played by the player. The players were observed via a video conference call by FIDE-affiliated international arbiters. Chief arbiter: Sabrina de San Vicente. The group stage (May 5-9) was won by China with 17 match points (MP). USA was 2nd on tiebreak (board points (BP)): 01 02 03 04 05 06 MP BP
1 China ** 20 22 12 22 22 17 25½
2 USA 02 ** 00 22 12 22 13 22
3 Europe 00 22 ** 12 21 21 13 21½
4 Russia 10 00 10 ** 12 21 8 19
5 India 00 10 01 10 ** 02 5 17½
6 World 00 00 01 01 20 ** 4 14½
The Superfinal (May 10) saw China and USA tie 2-2, with the title going to China (Ding Liren, Wei Yi, Yu Yangyi, Yifan Hou) because they had won the group stage.
Official site: https://www.chess.com/article/view/...
Regulations: https://www.fide.com/docs/regulatio...
ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/natio...
chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t...
TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew...
FIDE: https://www.fide.com/news/520
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| May-08-20 | | Pedro Fernandez: And my dear <749770>, I forgot this: The part of your phone number it was a simple joke. |
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| May-08-20 | | Sokrates: <Pedro Fernandez>: <...It is quite ironic that the two most powerful countries around the world ha been the most affected, whatr a shame!> Ironic, yes, surprising, no. The leaders of both countries build their power on ignorance of facts, distrust in science, xenophobic nationalism, shameless populism and they both have a one mile long Pinocchio's nose. Yet, they are not to blame. They were legally elected by those who suffer the most from this Coronar crisis, but still take a stance of denial. Meanwhile, due to our very low degree of infection (and death casualties), caused by the quick and radical shutdown, the Danish government has decided to cautiously open most areas of business and public service. All in agreement and consensus with all political parties from left to right. |
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May-08-20
 | | AylerKupp: <<Pedro Fernandez> BTW, Dominguez is an accidental countryman of our <AylerKupp>> My dear friend, we may be more than accidental countrymen since my mother's maiden name was Dominguez. Could we be related? I doubt it, Dominguez is as common a name in Cuba as Fernandez is in Venezuela and Smith is in the US. |
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| May-08-20 | | Pedro Fernandez: My great <AK>, I'm surprised as I thought you were descendant of Anglo-Saxon and German families. About the surname Fernández is not so common here like in Argentina and Mexico. Indeed I thought your parents are American but you were born in Cuba accidentally. Don't forget give my greetings to <Ms. AylerKupp>. |
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May-08-20
| | AylerKupp: <<Pedro Fernandez> I don't know much about my ancestry. I know that my maternal grandparents were from Andalucia, Spain and emigrated to Cuba where my mother was born. According to my mother my father was British and might have some German ancestry but I don't know. My mother supposedly married my father (with my mother you could never be sure) but left him while she was pregnant with me to return to Cuba where I was born. I never met my father. But you're right, I might have been an "accident". :-) |
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| May-08-20 | | Sokrates: The queen of chess is back. Hou Yifan beating Goryachkina, Krush and M. Muzychuck. Only Koneru got a draw. Quite impressive and hopefully a promise of Hou returning to our game. It would be great to see her in a double robin with Ju, Koneru, and Goryachkina. Perhaps adding Dzagnidze and with young Yip on a wild card. What a tournament that would be. |
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| May-08-20 | | SirChrislov: <Sokrates>
Nice!
I was just mentioning in her Goryavshkina game how she's been incredibly dominating, winning 3 out of 4, simply impressive. Best of wishes to her. |
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| May-08-20 | | SirChrislov: <P Fernandez>
My Lebanese great grandfather's last name was Natalovich, or Nataloviç and perhaps he was half, or a quarter Bulgarian according to the "non-trustworty" story my uncle Frank tells. And my Mexican grandmother's last name was Moctezuma. I love that as last name. wish I had it. ( even Natalovich too as it sounds like Nimzovitch. lol) |
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| May-08-20 | | SirChrislov: Been watching the aftershow of the Magnus Invite on YT and I heard one of the GM's say this... which I find funny and a bit shocking at the same time: <"Magnus is a born troll. If he wasn't the best chess player in the world I can see him like easily having his own prank channel or something and being really, really good at it.>
-- GM Sam Shankland |
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| May-08-20 | | SirChrislov: https://youtu.be/fLDN0Ot4hVs
@ 29:43 WOW |
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| May-09-20 | | Sokrates: <SirChrislov> Thanks for the link and the quote. Shankland's words on Carlsen don't come as a shock to me, though. I have written before that while I highly admire the chess skills of our world champion, there is not much else to admire. He often acts with the temper of a spoilt, rude kid, and there is no particular wisdom, wit, or profound thoughts in interviews with him. He appears to have a narrow focus on himself - arrogance is no stranger to him either. His own games are solely annoted by Peter Heine - I have not seen any in writings nor works by his hand. Still, and in spite of that, he should be praised for arranging the Invite - a great idea well executed in these dark times. Like any of us his character is complex, subject to differentiation, and should be assessed and addressed correspondingly. |
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| May-09-20 | | waustad: Trash talking is rather common among sportsmen of many kinds. |
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| May-09-20 | | SirChrislov: Standings going into the final round
# Fed Team 1a 1b 2a 2b 3a 3b 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b MP BP TB3 TB4 TB5 1 China 2½ 3 2½ 2 2½ 2½ 3 3½ 15 21,5 0 308,3 50,5 2 USA 1½ 1 3 2½ 2 2½ 2½ 3 11 18 0 252 48,5
3 Europe 1 1½ 3 2 2½ 2½ 2 2½ 10 17 0 264,5 43 4 Russia 2 1½ 1 1½ 2 1½ 2 3 5 14,5 1 240,3 34,5 5 India 1½ 2 1½ 1½ 2 2 1½ 2½ 5 14,5 1 225,8 36,5 6 Rest of the World 1 ½ 1½ 1 1½ 1 2½ 1½ 2 10,5 0 175,3 27 I know, numbers don't make sense to me either. China vs US today, and US vs Europe, two great matches, The Americans lost to both these teams in Rd. 4 and 5 so it's time for sweet vengeance! |
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| May-09-20 | | SirChrislov: *I meant final of the main tournament, before the twoteam final final on mother's day tomorrow |
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| | AylerKupp: <<SirChrislov> @ 29:43 WOW> I'm not surprised either. It may even be that in order to become a WCC your personality must be at times "difficult". Alekhine, Fischer, and Kasparov immediately come to mind. But the opposite can also be true; Tal, Spassky, and Anand also immediately come to mind. |
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| May-09-20 | | Atking: I'm just looking at it. I'm surprised that Magnus Carlsen didn't play on the first board of the European team. Any reason on that? Schedule problem? |
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| May-09-20 | | rogge: https://twitter.com/MagnusCarlsen/s... |
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| May-09-20 | | Pedro Fernandez: <rogge!> Where do were you? I never knew about you more! BTW, <Sharky> has not trying to concert a video-call with you, in order to propose you an arragement about your emblem? For example, I'm really interested for <Sneaky's> avatar, which is (IMO), the best one in CG, but it is not interesed. Nice to see you again! |
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| May-09-20 | | Pedro Fernandez: Why GM Rapport didn't play?
I can't wait a triangular, at double four rounds between Duda, Firousja and Rapport. Sometimes our dreams become true. |
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| May-09-20 | | Pedro Fernandez: Finally we realize that the Caruana performance has not been enough. However our Team USA has fighting hard. Well, China, with those GM's Corps Ladies have been unbeatable. Congratulations! |
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May-09-20
 | | moronovich: it is not over <Pedro> Final on Sunday,between China and USA ! |
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| May-09-20 | | Pedro Fernandez: My great <Monorovich>. Some people think that I'm writing badly the Username of our fiend <Monorovich>, but it turns out I signed with him, a vitalice and exclusive contract with his great alteranative <Username>, which you only may use with the absolute writing permission of <Monoped, Inc. and Associates>. Copyright 2020. |
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| May-09-20 | | Atking: Thanks for the information <rogge>. |
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| May-10-20 | | rogge: <Atking: Thanks for the information <rogge>> You're welcome :) Carlsen apparently would've preferred representing the national team, which is too weak to be invited, of course. He'll play next weekend though, https://www.fide.com/news/517 |
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| May-10-20 | | rogge: <Pedro>! You really are one of the nicest guys around! All is well, not much chess going on these days, that's all :) |
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