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The Chessable Masters was a 12-player online super-tournament taking place on chess24 from 20 June to 4 July 2020, with a rest day on 24 June. The 3rd event in the $1 million Magnus Carlsen Tour, it had a $150,000 prize fund with $45,000 for 1st place. The winner would qualify for the $300,000 Grand Final in August. The event featured the world’s top six players, eight of the top 10 players, six of the World Championship candidates (plus Radjabov), Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge (2020) finalists Dubov and Nakamura, and Tour debutants Harikrishna and Artemiev. In the preliminary round robin stage (20-23 June) the Group A and Group B players played each other twice in Rapid chess, with the Top 4 in each group going forward to the knockout stage. Tie break: 1) direct encounter, 2) number of wins, 3) Sonneborn-Berger score, 4) Koya coefficient. Time control: 15 minutes for all moves, with 10 seconds added per move from move 1. No draw offers allowed before move 40. The tournament was sponsored by chessable.com. Chief arbiter: Panagiotis Nikolopoulos. After four days, Dubov, Harikrishna, Radjabov and Vachier-Lagrave were eliminated from the competition: Group A (20 & 22 June) Group B (21 & 23 June)
01 02 03 04 05 06 Pts 01 02 03 04 05 06 Pts
1 Carlsen ** ½½ ½1 ½½ 01 1½ 6 Giri ** ½1 ½½ 1½ ½½ ½½ 6
2 Artemiev ½½ ** ½½ ½½ 10 11 6 Ding Liren ½0 ** ½1 ½½ ½½ ½1 5½
3 Nakamura ½0 ½½ ** ½½ ½1 ½½ 5 Nepomniachtchi ½½ ½0 ** 01 1½ ½1 5½
4 Grischuk ½½ ½½ ½½ ** ½½ 01 5 Caruana 0½ ½½ 10 ** 1½ 01 5
5 Dubov 10 01 ½0 ½½ ** 1½ 5 Radjabov ½½ ½½ 0½ 0½ ** ½1 4½
6 Harikrishna 0½ 00 ½½ 10 0½ ** 3 Vachier-Lagrave ½½ ½0 ½0 10 ½0 ** 3½
In the knockout stage each match consisted of up to three mini-matches, and the winner of two such would advance. The mini-matches consisted of four 15 + 10 Rapid games, and if necessary two 5 + 3 Blitz tiebreak games, and if still necessary an Armageddon game where White had 5 minutes to Black's 4 but a draw counted as a win for Black. Magnus Carlsen won the event by beating Giri in the two first mini-matches of the final: Quarterfinals 25-29 June Semifinals 30 June - 2 July Final 3-4 July
Carlsen 11½- -- - / ½11- -- - / ---- -- - 2
Caruana 00½- -- - / ½00- -- - / ---- -- - 0
Carlsen 10½½ ½1 - / 1½1- -- - / ---- -- - 2
Ding Liren 01½½ ½0 - / 0½0- -- - / ---- -- - 0
Ding Liren ½1½½ -- - / ½0½1 10 0 / ½11- -- - 2
Nakamura ½0½½ -- - / ½1½0 01 1 / ½00- -- - 1
Carlsen ½1½0 ½1 - / 1½½½ -- - 2
Giri ½0½1 ½0 - / 0½½½ -- - 0
Giri ½½½½ ½½ 1 / ½1½1 -- - / ---- -- - 2
Grischuk ½½½½ ½½ 0 / ½0½0 -- - / ---- -- - 0
Giri ½1½1 -- - / ½0½½ -- - / 01½½ ½1 - 2
Nepomniachtchi ½0½0 -- - / ½1½½ -- - / 10½½ ½0 - 1
Nepomniachtchi 1½1- -- - / ½11- -- - / ---- -- - 2
Artemiev 0½0- -- - / ½00- -- - / ---- -- - 0
Official site: https://explore.chess24.com/tour/ch...
Regulations: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/...
Chess-Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr529081....
Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/car...
ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/magnu...
chess24: https://chess24.com/en/read/news/wo...
Chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t...
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chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t...
TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew...
Wikipedia article: Chessable Masters
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| Jul-10-20 | | Pedro Fernandez: My dear <Aylerkupp>, of course I'm very content with Nana. Indeed she does not know all of my personal decisions, even Andreína. But look at this: Incompetence, corruption including the military high command, support for drug trafficking and terrorism, crime, communism, the presence of the Cuban, Russian and Iranian military and immense Russian military aircrafts, at the cost of the great difficulties our people are going through, being this country one of the richest countries in the world: oil, gold (5 grams per ton of rock!), diamonds, bauxite, iron, uranium and an immense tourist future. Our natural resources are for our countries in America (excluding Cuba and Nicaragua), not for communist or terrorist countries, Mr. Churchill was a wise man. |
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| Jul-10-20 | | Sokrates: <AylerKupp>
You seem to have a different interpretation of "domination" than the one I used. My observation and statement is contextual with the OP's suggestion that Carlsen might be as dominating today as Kasparov was in his time (cf. quote below). He was talking about a world champion's domination over his contemporaries, and so was I. Karpov was indeed dominating his contemporaries - right up to the point in the first match with Kasparov, where his ressourses were emptied and the match had to be cancelled, since Karpov's health was at stake. As Timman writes in his book, Kasparov took lessons from Karpov in this painfull first half of their first match and improved his game immensely before meeting Karpov again in their second match. This kind of domination is very rare in the history of chess, since a clear gap between the champ and ALL the other players rarely occurs. One could argue that it has never happened, since all world champions had opponents they couldn't dominate at all times. But if we bend the strict demands a bit there were champions who seemed invincible in some periods during their reign. The famous trio, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, all had such periods. In recent times such supremacy is much more difficult to obtain, partly because there are many more competitors in the game, partly because the upper 20 has a much higher general level than those in the time and age of the trio. You could argue (as you do) that Karpov and Kasparov were equally strong for a long mutual period, so if one wants to claim that Kasparov dominated his contemporaries, one should perhaps make a note that at least in the first half of his reign, he was not dominating according to the strict definition - Karpov was on par with him. A couple of years ago Carlsen was in a weak period and it was interesting to observe that his challengers sensed that weakness and began to play him with more self-confidence. When he raised his game and had a half year's streak of victories, he sort of came back to the former glory, the halo of which he has polished successfully in the recent online tournaments. Which, I assume, made the OP write this:
<Keyser Soze: ... Personally I think Magnus is probably more dominant than Kasparov already. Or almost there..> |
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Jul-10-20
 | | Diademas: Quiz of the day.
Excluding exhibitions, training and simuls; Who was the latest born player Fischer ever faced? |
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Jul-10-20
 | | MissScarlett: Mecking. |
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Jul-10-20
| | Diademas: I believe that to be correct.
Let's up the ante. Who was the latest born player Fischer lost to? |
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Jul-10-20
| | MissScarlett: Kovacevic. |
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Jul-10-20
| | MissScarlett: The answer to the next question is Acevedo. |
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Jul-10-20
| | Diademas: <MissScarlett: Kovacevic>
I think that's incorrect. |
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Jul-10-20
| | MissScarlett: Is it Acevedo? |
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Jul-10-20
| | Diademas: Gheorghiu vs Fischer, 1966 |
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Jul-10-20
| | MissScarlett: Gheorghiu |
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Jul-10-20
 | | alexmagnus: <beatgiant> So that makes it five. In twelve years.
Let's compare it to now. The latest born Candidate so far is Alekseenko (born in 1997), so let's take the years 1985-1997. The players of this patch of birth years who played in the Candidates: 1. Carlsen (born 1990, played in the Candidates in 2007 and 2013, became world champion) 2. Mamedyarov (born 1985, Candidate 2011)
3. Radjabov (born 1987, Candidate 2011 and 2013) 4. Andreikin (born 1990, Candidate 2014 and 2020) 5. Karjakin (born 1990, Candidate 2014, 2016, 2018, challenger 2016) 6. Giri (born 1994, Candidate 2016 and 2020)
7. Caruana (born 1992, Candidate 2016, 2018, 2020, challenger 2018) 8. Nakamura (born 1987, Candidate 2016)
9. Ding (born 1992, Candidate 2018 and 2020)
10. So (born 1993, Candidate 2018)
11. Nepomniachtchi (born 1990, Candidate 2020)
12. Vachier-Lagrave (born 1990, Candidate 2020)
13. Wang (born 1989, Candidate 2020)
14. Alekseenko (born 1997, Candiadate 2020)
And this generation's time is not yet over, expect one or another name to be added to that list later. The <Candidates 2020> alone have more players born in 1985-1997 that the <entire history> produced for players born in 1938-1950. |
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Jul-10-20
 | | beatgiant: <alexmagnus>
It's hard to compare a period of time today with a period half a century ago, because there are major differences in the number of people playing chess and the available qualification paths into the Candidates. |
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Jul-10-20
| | beatgiant: <alexmagnus>
Also the frequency of the Candidates. |
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Jul-11-20
| | MissScarlett: <#ChessableMasters is sadly over, but there is a lot more to come soon with #Legends4ever starting July 21st with Carlsen, Giri, Ding, Nepomniachtchi and Svidler currently confirmed. And with the Grand Final on August 9th there will be some nice surprises :)> https://twitter.com/TarjeiJS/status... Same old....by legends I thought they meant old-old. |
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Jul-11-20
 | | AylerKupp: <<Sokrates> You seem to have a different interpretation of "domination" than the one I used.> Perhaps.
How's that for a short post for a change. :-) |
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| Jul-11-20 | | Sokrates: <AylerKupp>. That may be your post of the year! Be proud! :-) Do you know the story about the shortest known correspondance in the world? French author Émile Zola had published a book and was anxious to hear from the publisher about the reception and the sales. So he sent him a letter with only this: ? Shortly after, he received a response from the publisher with this: ! |
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| Jul-11-20 | | Clemens Scheitz: I wonder if Monsieur Zola would have been happier receiving this: $
instead of just :
! ...anyhow, my dear Cuban and my dear Dane, you never fail to enlighten and entertain. Thank you guys. |
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| Jul-11-20 | | Sokrates: Thanks, dear Clemens,
You know, a hedonistic American would probably prefer the "$", but a French gentilhomme of the artistic class would feel sufficiently rewarded by a "!". Just ask a Frenchman! :-) How are you these days, btw? |
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Jul-11-20
 | | OhioChessFan: That legend is usually attributed to Victor Hugo, regarding Les Miserables. |
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| Jul-12-20 | | Sokrates: <OhioChessFan: That legend is usually attributed to Victor Hugo, regarding Les Miserables.> I stand corrected. You are absolutely right. Erosion in my old memory hard disc :-) Thanks, <OCF>!! |
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Jul-12-20
| | OhioChessFan: No worries. I read one version attributed to Dumas/The Count of Monte Cristo, and Oscar Wilde is also often cited. I'd guess it's apocryphal. |
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Jul-12-20
| | alexmagnus: <Also the frequency of the Candidates.> As I said, Candidates 2020 alone has more payers from the 12 years. So, we don't even need to compare more than one tournament. As for different qualification path. It is different, but the result is the same - 8 players. |
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Jul-12-20
| | beatgiant: <alexmagnus>
But we do not know who those 8 players would have been in, say, the 1970s if we had the current conditions in place then. Another example of different conditions today is the relatively higher importance of speed chess, which I think favors younger players.That is why I stand by my original point. It's a lot more convincing to compare nearby historical periods with each other, than those that are separated by a big gap. |
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| Jul-12-20 | | Clemens Scheitz: Hej Sven,
I'm doing fine in general, but since you asked I should tell you that my main problem is with women - in particular my wife and her two beautiful sisters. There are some feminine characteristics of them that I love (much more than I should) and at the same time there are aspects of their way of thinking and their view of reality that I profoundly dislike, so there is this awful tension and unrest in my heart... I flirt, compliment and flatter them when I text them, but on the other hand I avoid at all cost any family parties in order not to see them...silly and immature I know, but a problem for me nonetheless. Any advice ? I've heard that the best counselors in the world come from Copenhagen...Now you are probably sorry you asked...Now, to keep this related to our beloved game I would add that they do not play chess. Thanks, and I hope you are doing okay as well. |
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