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🏆 Corsica Masters (2017)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Gata Kamsky, Aleksey Dreev, Volodymyr Onyshchuk, Pavel Tregubov, Rinat Jumabayev, Alexandr Fier, Abhimanyu Puranik, Vadim Malakhatko, Jules Moussard, Alexander Zubov, Niclas Huschenbeth, Mikhail Antipov, Radoslav Dimitrov, Gabriel Flom (Battaglini), M Chakravarthi Reddy, Rakesh Kulkarni

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Corsica Masters (2017)

The 21st Corsica Masters was a knockout tournament with Rapid time control played in Bastia, Corsica, France, 26-29 October 2017 (the final was played in Ajaccio). The field consisted of the top 16 finishers of the Corsica Masters Open (2017) (= Oscaro Open, Bastia 21-26 October, 9 rounds, time control 90 min + 30 sec). The four rounds had two games each, plus tiebreak games (if necessary). Time control: 15 minutes for the whole game, with 3 seconds added per move from move 1. If 1-1, then two Blitz games (5 min + 3 sec), and if still tied, an Armageddon game (this happened twice). Chief organizer: Léo Battesti and the Corsica Chess Club. Chief arbiter: Akkhavahn Vilaisarn. Number of games played: probably 42 (five eighthfinal games are missing).

Aleksey Dreev beat Kamsky 1.5-0.5 in the final.

Eighthfinals (26 Oct) Quarterfinals (27 Oct) Semifinals (27 Oct) Final (29 October)

Dreev 11 -- - 2 Chakravarthi 00 -- - 0 Dreev 11 -- - 2 Moussard 00 -- - 0 Moussard ½½ 11 - 3 Tregubov ½½ 00 - 1 Dreev 10 11 - 3 Huschenbeth 01 00 - 1 Huschenbeth 11 -- - 2 Malakhatko 00 -- - 0 Huschenbeth 11 -- - 2 Onischuk 00 -- - 0 Onischuk 11 -- - 2 Battaglini 00 -- - 0 Dreev 1½ -- - 1½ Kamsky 0½ -- - ½ Kamsky ½1 -- - 1½ Kulkarni ½0 -- - ½ Kamsky 1½ -- - 1½ Antipov 0½ -- - ½ Antipov ?? 10 1 3 Fier ?? 01 0 2 Kamsky 1½ -- - 1½ Jumabayev 0½ -- - ½ Jumabayev ?? ?? 1 3 Puranik ?? ?? 0 2 Jumabayev ½½ ½1 - 2½ Zubov ½½ ½0 - 1½ Zubov 11 -- - 2 Dimitrov 00 -- - 0

Official site: https://web.archive.org/web/2017110...
Regulations: https://web.archive.org/web/2017103...
ruchess: https://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/alex...
TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...
FFE (Open): https://web.archive.org/web/2017102...
Corsica Masters Open (Oscaro Open) results: https://web.archive.org/web/2017102...
Coca-Cola Blitz results: https://web.archive.org/web/2017110...

Previous: Corsica Masters (2016)

 page 2 of 2; games 26-37 of 37  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
26. Dreev vs N Huschenbeth  1-0812017Corsica MastersD25 Queen's Gambit Accepted
27. A Zubov vs R Jumabayev  0-1782017Corsica MastersD12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
28. R Jumabayev vs A Zubov  ½-½632017Corsica MastersD78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6
29. J Moussard vs Dreev  0-1682017Corsica MastersA01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack
30. R Jumabayev vs A Zubov  ½-½372017Corsica MastersA07 King's Indian Attack
31. M Antipov vs Kamsky  ½-½512017Corsica MastersA05 Reti Opening
32. V Onyshchuk vs N Huschenbeth  0-1422017Corsica MastersA07 King's Indian Attack
33. Kamsky vs M Antipov  1-0332017Corsica MastersA00 Uncommon Opening
34. Dreev vs J Moussard  1-0482017Corsica MastersE32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
35. A Zubov vs R Jumabayev  ½-½582017Corsica MastersA48 King's Indian
36. Kamsky vs Dreev 0-1462017Corsica MastersA03 Bird's Opening
37. Dreev vs Kamsky  ½-½552017Corsica MastersD73 Neo-Grunfeld, 5.Nf3
 page 2 of 2; games 26-37 of 37  PGN Download
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