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World Rapid Championship Tournament

Magnus Carlsen11.5/15(+8 -0 =7)[games]
Alireza Firouzja10.5/15(+8 -2 =5)[games]
Hikaru Nakamura10.5/15(+7 -1 =7)[games]
Vladislav Artemiev10.5/15(+6 -0 =9)[games]
Levon Aronian10/15(+6 -1 =8)[games]
Leinier Dominguez Perez10/15(+5 -0 =10)[games]
Jan-Krzysztof Duda10/15(+7 -2 =6)[games]
Daniil Dubov10/15(+5 -0 =10)[games]
Anton Korobov10/15(+7 -2 =6)[games]
David Anton Guijarro10/15(+7 -2 =6)[games]
Yangyi Yu10/15(+7 -2 =6)[games]
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov9.5/15(+7 -3 =5)[games]
Le Quang Liem9.5/15(+7 -3 =5)[games]
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave9.5/15(+5 -1 =9)[games]
Ilia Smirin9.5/15(+7 -3 =5)[games]
Anish Giri9.5/15(+5 -1 =9)[games]
Hrant Melkumyan9.5/15(+7 -3 =5)[games]
Peter Svidler9.5/15(+5 -1 =9)[games]
Pavel Ponkratov9.5/15(+8 -4 =3)[games]
Alexander Motylev9.5/15(+6 -2 =7)[games]
Alexander Grischuk9.5/15(+5 -1 =9)[games]
Evgeny Alekseev9.5/15(+6 -2 =7)[games]
Vladimir Fedoseev9.5/15(+7 -3 =5)[games]
Dmitry Andreikin9.5/15(+5 -1 =9)[games]
Boris Gelfand9.5/15(+6 -2 =7)[games]
Ivan Cheparinov9.5/15(+6 -2 =7)[games]
Timur Gareyev9.5/15(+9 -5 =1)[games]
Hao Wang9/15(+5 -2 =8)[games]
Ian Nepomniachtchi9/15(+4 -1 =10)[games]
Boris Grachev9/15(+3 -0 =12)[games]
Sergey Karjakin9/15(+5 -2 =8)[games]
Gadir Guseinov9/15(+6 -3 =6)[games]
* (204 players total; 172 players not shown. Click here for longer list.)

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
World Rapid Championship (2019)

The 2019 King Salman FIDE World Rapid Championship was a 15-round Swiss open held at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia, 26-28 December, with the participation of 158 GM's, including defending champion Daniil Dubov. The prize fund was $350,000, with $60,000 to the winner. Time control: 15 minutes per player for all moves, with 10 seconds added per move from move one. If there was a tie for 1st place, the top two players according to the first eligible tie-break criterion would compete in a play-off match consisting of two 3+2 blitz games. If the score was still level, the players would play a sudden death or Armageddon game (in which the player with the white pieces would get 5 minutes to Black's 4, with a 2-second increment after move 60, while a draw counted as a win for Black). No players with baseball caps, t-shirts, jeans, shorts, sneakers or inappropriate dress were allowed in the playing area. No penalty was imposed on a player if he was late for any of his games. Chief arbiter: Panagiotis Nikolopoulos.

Magnus Carlsen took his 3rd title with 11.5/15.

Official site: https://wrbc2019.com/
Regulations: https://handbook.fide.com/files/han...
Chess-Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr499127....
Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/car...
ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/rapid...
Chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t...
TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew...
FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament...

Previous: World Rapid Championship (2018). Next: World Rapid Championship (2021). See also World Rapid Championship (Women) (2019), World Blitz Championship (2019) and World Blitz Championship (Women) (2019)

 page 3 of 24; games 51-75 of 597  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
51. V Laznicka vs M Atabayev  1-0542019World Rapid ChampionshipE12 Queen's Indian
52. D Bocharov vs R Makarian  1-0672019World Rapid ChampionshipA10 English
53. M Antipov vs N Sarin  1-0502019World Rapid ChampionshipB40 Sicilian
54. F Vallejo Pons vs V Mikhailovsky  1-0302019World Rapid ChampionshipB05 Alekhine's Defense, Modern
55. Vachier-Lagrave vs T Tengis  1-0552019World Rapid ChampionshipC67 Ruy Lopez
56. A Korobov vs R Castellanos Rodriguez  1-0552019World Rapid ChampionshipD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
57. V Artemiev vs A Tari  1-0632019World Rapid ChampionshipA36 English
58. Svidler vs S P Sethuraman  1-0522019World Rapid ChampionshipB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
59. A R Saleh Salem vs A Triapishko  1-0372019World Rapid ChampionshipE48 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5
60. E Inarkiev vs A Reshetnikov  1-0332019World Rapid ChampionshipB43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3
61. S Zhigalko vs T M Tran  1-0222019World Rapid ChampionshipB53 Sicilian
62. V S Gujrathi vs N Afanasiev  1-0402019World Rapid ChampionshipE15 Queen's Indian
63. X Xu vs N Guliyev  1-0392019World Rapid ChampionshipB25 Sicilian, Closed
64. E Najer vs O Vastrukhin  1-0582019World Rapid ChampionshipC17 French, Winawer, Advance
65. B Grachev vs Abdusattorov  1-0502019World Rapid ChampionshipA15 English
66. S Grigoriants vs M Petrosyan  1-0762019World Rapid ChampionshipC65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense
67. Dreev vs M Tissir  1-0332019World Rapid ChampionshipA40 Queen's Pawn Game
68. A Rakhmanov vs R Faizrakhmanov  1-0812019World Rapid ChampionshipA28 English
69. J Christiansen vs S Golubov  1-0562019World Rapid ChampionshipB06 Robatsch
70. I Ivanisevic vs S Lobanov  1-0442019World Rapid ChampionshipA29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto
71. B Adhiban vs P Potapov  1-0262019World Rapid ChampionshipE46 Nimzo-Indian
72. Glek vs T Gareyev  1-0492019World Rapid ChampionshipA07 King's Indian Attack
73. R Yanchenko vs Zvjaginsev  1-0612019World Rapid ChampionshipD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
74. M Perunovic vs I Iljiushenok  1-0502019World Rapid ChampionshipC18 French, Winawer
75. Iturrizaga Bonelli vs T Baron  1-0362019World Rapid ChampionshipA34 English, Symmetrical
 page 3 of 24; games 51-75 of 597  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jan-06-20  fabelhaft: Winning an event like this with a full point is quite impressive, and that after a couple of ”safe” draws in the last rounds, before which he had +8-0=5. The opponent that stands out as a ”weakie” is untitled Utegaliev. But he went undefeated against the five strongest opponents he faced apart from Carlsen (including Candidate Alekseenko, who he finished ahead of), which shows how difficult it is to just beat the ”weak” players in these events.
Jan-06-20  fabelhaft: It’s as if the participants play totally unrelated events in some cases. Gareyev finished 27th, but with three rounds left he had only faced opponents in the 2300s and 2400s. Smirin scored 9.5/15 just like Gareyev but the average rating of his opponents over the fifteen rounds was more than 250 Elo higher.

Firouzja had an amazing result after playing very strong opposition, beating Karjakin, Mamedyarov and Wang Hao.

More than 80 participants were rated 2600+, 35 were 2700+.

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