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....
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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)
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| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
1451. A Riazantsev vs G Meier |
| 1-0 | 41 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | A10 English |
1452. S Zhigalko vs D Yuffa |
| ½-½ | 95 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | B12 Caro-Kann Defense |
1453. K Alekseenko vs R Jumabayev |
| 1-0 | 60 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | C50 Giuoco Piano |
1454. A Timofeev vs A Utegaliyev |
| 0-1 | 84 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | A37 English, Symmetrical |
1455. A Pashikian vs A Adly |
| 0-1 | 53 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | E11 Bogo-Indian Defense |
1456. M Kobalia vs F Vallejo Pons |
| ½-½ | 36 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | C18 French, Winawer |
1457. Vitiugov vs X Xu |
| ½-½ | 45 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | A45 Queen's Pawn Game |
1458. C Aravindh vs E Najer |
| ½-½ | 57 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights |
1459. A Sarana vs I Salgado Lopez |
| ½-½ | 36 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense |
1460. V Murzin vs I Ivanisevic |
| ½-½ | 40 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | B10 Caro-Kann |
1461. N Sarin vs B Amin |
| ½-½ | 51 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | A99 Dutch, Ilyin-Genevsky Variation with b3 |
1462. D Gukesh vs Sasikiran |
| 1-0 | 27 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | A20 English |
1463. M Perunovic vs Abdusattorov |
| 1-0 | 39 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | B23 Sicilian, Closed |
1464. Jakovenko vs R Sadhwani |
| 1-0 | 27 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | B67 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 8...Bd7 |
1465. B Socko vs E Can |
| 0-1 | 64 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | B06 Robatsch |
1466. N Guliyev vs P V Vishnu |
| 0-1 | 44 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack |
1467. I Popov vs J Christiansen |
| 1-0 | 51 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | C55 Two Knights Defense |
1468. N Petrov vs E Hansen |
| ½-½ | 12 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | A20 English |
1469. I Iljiushenok vs Zvjaginsev |
| 0-1 | 51 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | C45 Scotch Game |
1470. M Petrosyan vs S Khanin |
| 1-0 | 37 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | A20 English |
1471. Indjic vs H Bharathakoti |
| 0-1 | 45 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav |
1472. Sakaev vs R Kezin |
| ½-½ | 14 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | D85 Grunfeld |
1473. Bluebaum vs K Mesropov |
| ½-½ | 63 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | A10 English |
1474. S P Sethuraman vs A Ismagambetov |
| ½-½ | 66 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation |
1475. T M Tran vs A Rosell |
| ½-½ | 34 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation |
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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. |
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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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