| World Cup (2017) |
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The 2017 FIDE World Cup, held 3-27 September in Tbilisi, Georgia, featured 127 players (Yaroslav Zherebukh withdrawn) in a series of knockout matches. The early rounds had two games each, plus tiebreak games when necessary. The final was a match of four games, plus tiebreak games. The two finalists would advance to the Candidates tournament next year. The prize fund was $1,600,000, with the winner taking home $120,000. Players received 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 more minutes for the rest of the game, with the addition of 30 seconds per move from move one. The tiebreaks consisted of two 25 min + 10-sec increment Rapid games, then if needed two 10+10 games, two 5+3 Blitz games, and finally an Armageddon game where White had 5 minutes to Black's 4, but a draw counted as a win for Black. Chief arbiter: Tomasz Delega. Deputy chief arbiters: Faig Gasanov and Ashot Vardapetyan. On way to the final, Levon Aronian knocked out Daniel J Cawdery in Round 1, Yifan Hou in Round 2, Maxim Matlakov in Round 3, Daniil Dubov in Round 4, Vassily Ivanchuk in the quarterfinal and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the semifinal. Ding Liren beat Mohamed Amine Haddouche in Round 1, Martyn Kravtsiv in Round 2, Vidit Santosh Gujrathi in Round 3, Wang Hao in Round 4, Richard Rapport in the quarterfinal, and Wesley So in the semifinal. The final match started on 23 September. After 2-2 in the Classical games, Aronian won both Rapid games. Aronian and Ding Liren both qualified for the World Championship Candidates (2018) tournament. Elo 1 2 3 4 1 2
Levon Aronian 2799 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 4
Ding Liren 2777 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 2
World Champion Magnus Carlsen also participated, and it was asked if this was to try to eliminate future challengers. Carlsen was knocked out anyway in Round 3 by Bu Xiangzhi. Else, there was a dress code controversy after Round 2 involving Anton Kovalyov (who beat Viswanathan Anand in Round 2) and Zurab Alekseyevich Azmaiparashvili, the Chairman of the Appeals Committee. A take on the event by User: Sally Simpson can be found at https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-bl...Official site: https://web.archive.org/web/2017100...
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Wikipedia article: Chess World Cup 2017 Previous: World Cup (2015). Next: World Cup (2019)
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| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 26. Kuzubov vs S Zhigalko |
| ½-½ | 54 | 2017 | World Cup | D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch |
| 27. L Lenic vs Fressinet |
| ½-½ | 44 | 2017 | World Cup | D52 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 28. A Pourramezanali vs Y Yu |
| ½-½ | 71 | 2017 | World Cup | A45 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 29. C Li vs L Krysa |
| ½-½ | 113 | 2017 | World Cup | D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted |
| 30. M Palac vs Nepomniachtchi |
| ½-½ | 9 | 2017 | World Cup | B90 Sicilian, Najdorf |
| 31. I Salgado Lopez vs Jobava |
| ½-½ | 24 | 2017 | World Cup | C47 Four Knights |
| 32. Karjakin vs A Smirnov |
| ½-½ | 21 | 2017 | World Cup | A07 King's Indian Attack |
| 33. F de Cresce El Debs vs Wojtaszek |
| ½-½ | 24 | 2017 | World Cup | E20 Nimzo-Indian |
| 34. T Batchuluun vs Adams |
| ½-½ | 22 | 2017 | World Cup | D37 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 35. Kazhgaleyev vs Ivanchuk |
| ½-½ | 21 | 2017 | World Cup | D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav |
| 36. Bacrot vs A Fier |
 | ½-½ | 17 | 2017 | World Cup | B18 Caro-Kann, Classical |
| 37. A Goganov vs D Andreikin |
| ½-½ | 19 | 2017 | World Cup | E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical |
| 38. M Haddouche vs Ding Liren |
| ½-½ | 29 | 2017 | World Cup | C77 Ruy Lopez |
| 39. N Dzagnidze vs Giri |
| ½-½ | 22 | 2017 | World Cup | A13 English |
| 40. So vs J D Ruiz Castillo |
| ½-½ | 31 | 2017 | World Cup | E01 Catalan, Closed |
| 41. Y Yu vs A Pourramezanali |
| ½-½ | 23 | 2017 | World Cup | E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3 |
| 42. K Stupak vs Gelfand |
| ½-½ | 36 | 2017 | World Cup | D02 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 43. M Matlakov vs J C Sadorra |
| ½-½ | 33 | 2017 | World Cup | E10 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 44. A Aleksandrov vs E Najer |
| ½-½ | 38 | 2017 | World Cup | D02 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 45. M Mchedlishvili vs E Inarkiev |
| ½-½ | 26 | 2017 | World Cup | E46 Nimzo-Indian |
| 46. D Howell vs A Tari |
| ½-½ | 27 | 2017 | World Cup | A28 English |
| 47. B Adhiban vs T S Nguyen |
| ½-½ | 34 | 2017 | World Cup | E01 Catalan, Closed |
| 48. Fridman vs Dubov |
| ½-½ | 34 | 2017 | World Cup | D74 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O |
| 49. M Kravtsiv vs Kovalenko |
| ½-½ | 50 | 2017 | World Cup | A88 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with c6 |
| 50. A Kovalyov vs V Akobian |
| ½-½ | 56 | 2017 | World Cup | A20 English |
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| Sep-28-17 | | jphamlore: That wasn't mere "sportswear" Ding Liren was wearing, especially the sport jackets. I suspect those were the jackets worn when China won two of its biggest events with Ding Liren on the open team: The 2014 Olympiad and the 2017 FIDE World Team Championship. Ding Liren was representing China with pride. |
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| Sep-28-17 | | sonia91: <jphamlore: [...] China won two of its biggest events with Ding Liren on the open team: The 2014 Olympiad and the 2017 FIDE World Team Championship.> China first won the World Team Championship in 2015. |
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| Sep-28-17 | | k009ris: Just to clarify:I don't blame the players for poor quality chess games, It's the organizers who impose short time controls, as they want to wrap up their events on time.
But I think we all lose when the artistic element in chess becomes the least important.And take a look at the games from the last world championship:boring as hell, then a mistakes in rapid games ...
But the worst idea I think is deciding top chess events by "armageddon" blitz, stupidest think I've ever heard of.Maybe they should try mixing classical chess and Fischerrandom in tie breaks.. |
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Sep-28-17
 | | WannaBe: I don't understand how short(er) time controls (which it really is not) affects finishing the event 'on time'. One game a day, third day for tie-break.
How would (longer/shorter) time control affect the finish of the event? Would a game require 26 hours to finish? Time control was 90 minutes for 40-moves and 30 minutes (each move +30s) 40 moves + 30s per move would give you 90 minutes + 20 minutes = 110 minutes, it's only 10 minutes less than 2 hours per side. Longest game was 130 moves which works out to be 3 hours and 5 minutes, I doubt both players sat there for 6 hours and 10 minutes. Probably plenty of time left on the clock when the game ended. One of the shorter game was 7 moves. (Maybe you can blame the organizers for this game, too.) |
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Sep-28-17
 | | perfidious: <sirgormless: I'd love to see the guys screaming "blunderfest" give live commentary on a GM game with no engine help for a 2600+ GM audience. I'd pay to watch the GMs struggle to keep gfrom laughing at the poor fool who thought he could tell them what's going on without deep and mostly concrete justification.> This once, we are in complete agreement--that would doubtless prove highly amusing. |
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| Sep-28-17 | | The Kings Domain: Imagine if Kovalyov made it to the finals and won. The tournament was a farce. |
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| Sep-28-17 | | qkxwsm: funny how all aronian lost rating in all three categories despite winning the tournament |
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| Sep-29-17 | | MadFaqirOfSwat: Better than losing points and not winning |
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Sep-30-17
 | | Sally Simpson: My take on the event.
https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-bl... |
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| Sep-30-17 | | WorstPlayerEver: <Of course White did not play 1. Qxb6 stalemate but 1.Qa6+ 1-0.> <Sally> It's Qxb3 |
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Sep-30-17
| | Sally Simpson: I was wondering when someone would notice that. (OOPS!)
Thanks W.P.E. corrected. |
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| Sep-30-17 | | john barleycorn: <Sally Simpson: I was wondering when someone would notice that....> at least 1 (one) reader ... |
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Oct-01-17
| | Sally Simpson: Hi J.B.
:) My one reader. I love him. It's taken him over 700 reads since Thursday to spot my...ahem... deliberate mistake. He's slacking. I've been told some scan it quickly to make sure I have not panned one of their games or exposed their opening trap. One guy there has pulled off the Blackburne Shilling trap Muhlock vs B Kostic, 1911 over 100 times! You can imagine the message I got when I warned everyone. I also advise falling for the trap with this line. F Adeyemi vs Z Ahmadov, 2008 That was my 257th one. (I get paid...so is it a blog or column?) It's meant to keep me out of mischief on here and the other handful of other sites I haunt....but somehow it has not. I always seem to be to in S*** with someone, the only thing that varies is the depth. |
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| Oct-01-17 | | john barleycorn: <Sally Simpson: Hi J.B.
:) My one reader. I love him. ...
I always seem to be to in S*** with someone, the only thing that varies is the depth.> My piece of advice: Adopt the fellow and share. Sharing is caring |
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| Oct-02-17 | | JustAnotherMaster: the GREATEST just one his 29th SUPER Tournament.......he has done more by the age of 26!!!! Yes Twety Six then SO will EVER accomplish, or Kramnik,Anand,Cuaruano, Karpov, Notvinnik, Tal, Fischer....So lmao that loser will never amount to the garbage that the phillipines accept from the USA every year for a few hundred dollars!,, hahahaha |
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| Oct-02-17 | | WorstPlayerEver: It's a sad sad world. |
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| Oct-02-17 | | Absentee: How do you pronounce "Cuaruano"? |
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| Oct-02-17 | | WorstPlayerEver: I praise the day when Fabi will introduce his correct name to Yasser. |
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| Oct-02-17 | | Absentee: And why is he congratulating Carlsen on the World Cup page? Is he mocking the world champion? |
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| Oct-02-17 | | WorstPlayerEver: https://tbilisi2017.fide.com/2017/0... The prize to pay when you are surrounded by crookz. |
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Oct-03-17
 | | MissScarlett: Nobody can say Azmai looks like a gypsy. That's a nice whistle. |
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| Oct-03-17 | | Chessinfinite: From the Guardian news -
"Theresa May said the UK could not understand US gun laws."...as has every other leader in puzzlement. |
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| Oct-04-17 | | Petrosianic: <JustAnotherMaster: the GREATEST just one [sic] his 29th SUPER Tournament.......> Isle of Man was not a Super Tournament.
And Karpov won over 150 International Tournaments, so Carlsen still has a way to go. |
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| Oct-04-17 | | beenthere240: Why are people puzzled about a US citizen exercising his second amendment rights? |
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| Oct-04-17 | | beenthere240: And Aronian came close to losing to Hou in their first classical game. |
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