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🏆 Nutcracker Match of the Generations (2020)

PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games) Boris Gelfand, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Alexey Shirov, Alexey Sarana, Evgeny Najer, Andrey Esipenko, Daniil Yuffa, Semyon Lomasov

Nutcracker Match of the Generations (2020) The 6th Nutcracker tournament took place in the Botvinnik Central Chess Club in Moscow, Russia from 4-9 March 2020. It saw a team of Kings (Tomashevsky, Gelfand, Shirov, Najer) play Scheveningen matches in classical and rapid chess against a team of Princes (Sarana, Esipenko, Yuffa, Lomasov). Each player first played a Classical game (90 minutes/40 moves + 30 minutes till the end of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1) against each member of the opposing team. They then played two Rapid games (15 minutes + a 10-second increment) against each opposing player. The classical games were worth double, i. e. 2 points for a win and 1 point for a draw. The organizers were the Chess Federation of Russia and the Ladya Foundation. Tournament director: Mark Gluhovsky. Chief arbiter: Dmitry Shakhov. Kings defeated Princes 35-29. Official site: https://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/nutc... Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/nut... 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FIDE 2: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament...  page 2 of 2; games 26-48 of 48  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 26. D Yuffa vs Shirov   ½-½ 85 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 27. A Esipenko vs E Najer   1-0 44 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations A20 English 28. S Lomasov vs Gelfand   ½-½ 40 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation 29. D Yuffa vs Tomashevsky 0-1 51 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 30. Shirov vs A Esipenko   0-1 41 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 31. E Najer vs A Sarana 1-0 51 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 32. Gelfand vs A Sarana   1-0 48 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations A07 King's Indian Attack 33. Gelfand vs S Lomasov   ½-½ 66 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations E00 Queen's Pawn Game 34. Tomashevsky vs D Yuffa 1-0 67 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 35. A Esipenko vs Shirov   0-1 37 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 36. A Sarana vs E Najer   1-0 47 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations A29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto 37. A Sarana vs Gelfand 0-1 130 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 38. S Lomasov vs Tomashevsky   0-1 41 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations B11 Caro-Kann, Two Knights, 3...Bg4 39. Shirov vs D Yuffa   1-0 48 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations B03 Alekhine's Defense 40. E Najer vs A Esipenko   0-1 46 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed 41. Gelfand vs A Esipenko   1-0 35 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 42. Tomashevsky vs A Sarana   0-1 32 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations D73 Neo-Grunfeld, 5.Nf3 43. S Lomasov vs Shirov   ½-½ 80 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations B96 Sicilian, Najdorf 44. D Yuffa vs E Najer   ½-½ 52 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations E01 Catalan, Closed 45. D Yuffa vs Gelfand   0-1 56 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3 46. A Esipenko vs Tomashevsky   ½-½ 46 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations A28 English 47. Shirov vs A Sarana   1-0 31 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 48. E Najer vs S Lomasov   1-0 53 2020 Nutcracker Match of the Generations E11 Bogo-Indian Defense  page 2 of 2; games 26-48 of 48    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   Mar-11-20    jith1207: Tomashevsky is in Senior category now :-) Mar-12-20    Annie K.: Yeah, that surprised me too... ;s Mar-13-20    Dionysius1: It's good they don't use that name for men v women tournaments Mar-13-20    Annie K.: Whoah... now I totally want them to! 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