| Airthings Masters (2022) |
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Airthings Masters is the first event of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, hosted by Chess24.
The event begins with a preliminary 16-player round-robin, using 3 points for a win, and 1 for a draw. Type: Round-robin followed by Knockout
Site tag: Chess24
Time control:
15 minutes, plus a 10-second increment starting from move 1.
Tiebreak are 5+3 games and then, if needed, a single Armageddon game, where White has 5 minutes to Black's 4, but a draw counts as a win for Black.
No draw offers are allowed before move 40
Schedule:
Prelims Feb 19-22 17:00 GMT
Quarterfinals Feb 23 17:00 GMT
Semifinals Feb 24 17:00 GMT
Finals Feb 25-26 17:00 GMT
<Preliminaries:>Number of players: 16
Number of rounds: 15
Number of games: 120
Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pts
1 Nepomniachtchi, Ian 2773 • 3 1 3 0 1 1 1 0 3 3 3 1 3 3 3 29
2 Carlsen, Magnus 2865 0 • 3 0 0 1 3 3 1 1 1 0 3 3 3 3 25
3 Artemiev, Vladislav 2700 1 0 • 3 1 0 3 3 3 1 1 0 1 1 3 3 24
4 Esipenko, Andrey 2714 0 3 0 • 1 3 0 3 3 1 1 0 0 3 3 3 24
5 Hansen, Eric 2606 3 3 1 1 • 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 3 3 3 0 23
6 Ding, Liren 2799 1 1 3 0 1 • 3 3 0 0 1 3 1 1 1 3 22
7 Le, Quang Liem 2709 1 0 0 3 3 0 • 3 1 0 0 1 3 3 1 3 22
8 Keymer, Vincent 2664 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 • 1 3 3 1 3 3 3 3 22
9 Aronian, Levon 2772 3 1 0 0 1 3 1 1 • 1 3 0 3 1 0 3 21
10 Giri, Anish 2772 0 1 1 1 3 3 3 0 1 • 1 1 0 0 3 3 21
11 Abdusattorov, Nodirbek 2641 0 1 1 1 3 1 3 0 0 1 • 1 1 0 3 3 19
12 Praggnanandhaa, R 2612 0 3 3 3 0 0 1 1 3 1 1 • 0 0 0 3 19
13 Duda, Jan-Krzysztof 2760 1 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 3 • 1 0 3 17
14 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2767 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 3 3 1 • 1 3 17
15 Niemann, Hans Moke 2645 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 3 3 1 • 3 15
16 Kosteniuk, Alexandra 2516 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 3
<Knockout:>Number of players: 8
Participants: Ian Nepomniachtchi, Magnus Carlsen, Vladislav Artemiev, Andrey Esipenko, Eric Hansen, Ding Liren, Le Quang Liem, Vincent Keymer
Quarterfinals 1 2 3 4 Pts Semifinals 1 2 3 4 Pts Finals (M1) 1 2 3 4 Pts (M2) 1 2 3 4 Pts
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Keymer ½ ½ 0 ½ 1.5
Nepomniachtchi ½ ½ 1 ½ 2.5
Nepomniachtchi ½ 1 1 - 2.5
Esipenko ½ 0 0 - 0.5
Carlsen 1 ½ 1 ½ 3.0
Le Quang Liem 0 ½ 0 ½ 1.0
Carlsen ½ ½ ½ ½ 2.0 ½ 1 1 - 2.5
Nepomniachtchi ½ ½ ½ ½ 2.0 ½ 0 0 - 0.5
Artemiev 0 ½ 1 1 2.5
Ding 1 ½ 0 0 1.5
Carlsen 1 1 ½ - 2.5
Artemiev 0 0 ½ - 0.5
Esipenko ½ ½ ½ 1 2.5
Hansen ½ ½ ½ 0 1.5
Chess24(Official site): https://chess24.com/tour/
Lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/airth...
Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/events/2022-c...
TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew...Previous event: Meltwater Tour Final (2021)
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| Feb-26-22 | | Everett: Carlsen again winning when it matters most (and when it doesn’t matter, too) |
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| Feb-26-22 | | Atterdag: Congrats to Carlsen. In the end Nepo cracked again and we saw two beautiful winning games by the champ. Btw. <blunders> are what they are. They are made by a player who couldn't fully concentrate and make the right decision in the right moment. Does that make the opponent's victory lesser? Of course not. No game can be won against a player who makes no mistakes. It's only a matter of the degree of the mistakes and assessing that is highly subjective. I know FIDE won't react to the Russian assault on Ukraine, but how can the western chessplayers keep playing with the Russians as if nothing has changed? Sure, it's not Nepo, Esipenko and Artemiev who got the idea of attacking their neighbor country, but still, they represent this rogue, reckless nation. What about the Muzychuk sisters? And good old Ivanchuk? |
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Feb-26-22
 | | Check It Out: The result of the final is deja vu all over again. |
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Feb-26-22
 | | 0ZeR0: A good tournament overall and an especially exciting final match. Seeing Carlsen and Nepo having a street brawl over the board never gets old. Congratulations to Magnus for coming out on top! |
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Feb-27-22
 | | beenthere240: In the last game Carlsen (a game up) could have gone with a Berlin but instead gave Nepo a fighting chance with a Sicilian. Those who denigrate MC are just ignoring his record and his style. |
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| Feb-27-22 | | Albertan: Magnus Carlsen convincingly wins Airthings Masters: https://en.chessbase.com/post/airth... Airthings Masters Day 8:Carlsen wins first leg of Champions Tour: https://www.chess.com/news/view/air... Magnus Carlsen wins Airthings Masters:
https://www.fide.com/news/1602 |
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Feb-27-22
 | | moronovich: <Check It Out: The result of the final is deja vu all over again.> Haven´t you said that before ? |
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Feb-27-22
| | moronovich: <MissScarlett: Have they asked Nepo why he keeps wearing the same shirt?> For a S.B it is groundhog day, every day. |
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| Feb-27-22 | | Absentee: The result of the final is deja vu all over again. |
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Feb-27-22
 | | perfidious: Class will tell. |
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| Feb-28-22 | | Atterdag: FIDE bans all players from Russia and Belarus:
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/fi... |
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| Feb-28-22 | | Z4all: <Atterdag> I think FIDE has banned any *events* being held in Russia or Belarus, which isn't the same as an outright ban on the players. I think banning events is the right move.
The official announcement I quote below concerns only the <Olympiad> <44th Chess Olympiad and FIDE Congress will not take place in RussiaFIDE Council has decided that the 44th Chess Olympiad, including the competition for players with disabilities, as well as the FIDE Congress, will not take place in Russia. We will do our utmost to find another organizer for the Olympiad and, in due time, provide information on the location and dates of FIDE Congress 2022.> https://www.fide.com/news/1598
I believe Nigel Short introduced (or in British-speak tabled) the motion. |
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| Feb-28-22 | | Atterdag: <Z4all> I stand corrected. The essense is, according to Chess24: The key measures FIDE agreed were:
Russia and Belarus banned from holding official FIDE chess competitions and events
Russian and Belarusian players banned from displaying national flags at FIDE-rated events and nationals anthem will not be played
FIDE will terminate all sponsorship agreements with Russian or Belarusian sanctioned and/or state-controlled companies |
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| Feb-28-22 | | cuendillar: The recent EU-wide closing of their airspace against all Russian airplanes (including private ones) would make it logistically difficult for Russians to play in many events, whether they're explicitly banned to or not. Russia retaliated by closing their airspace against European flights, essentially forcing huge detours for any flights heading towards northeast Asia. |
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Feb-28-22
 | | offramp: I know that Russians were supposedly banned from summer and winter Olympics. |
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| Feb-28-22 | | Atterdag: Likewise, Russian soccer teams are banned by FIFA and UEFA. But it seems to be an avalance of exclusions in all kinds of sports. Also cultural events like classical music are likely to follow suit. |
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| Feb-28-22 | | macer75: <cuendillar: The recent EU-wide closing of their airspace against all Russian airplanes (including private ones) would make it logistically difficult for Russians to play in many events, whether they're explicitly banned to or not. Russia retaliated by closing their airspace against European flights, essentially forcing huge detours for any flights heading towards northeast Asia.> So a third party flight (say, an Indian plane) would have to take players from Russia to the EU (or vice versa)? |
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| Mar-01-22 | | Atterdag: <macer75´: So a third party flight (say, an Indian plane) would have to take players from Russia to the EU (or vice versa)?> I hope there would be no <vice versa>, i.e. EU players travelling to Russian venues. That would seriously damage the already not brilliant ethic reputation of chessplayers. Frankly and btw, I hope Putin's lap dog Karjakin will be banned from chess in the west for the rest of his sorry life. |
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Mar-02-22
 | | Troller: <I hope there would be no <vice versa>, i.e. EU players travelling to Russian venues. That would seriously damage the already not brilliant ethic reputation of chessplayers.> I suppose if they could arrange transportation non-Russian chess players <could> participate in Russian events. But they might suffer exclusions elsewhere as a result, not to mention sponsors etc. <Frankly and btw, I hope Putin's lap dog Karjakin will be banned from chess in the west for the rest of his sorry life.> I certainly hope not. It is fair for organizers to choose not to invite Karjakin but to actually <ban> a player for expressing his political views is a dangerous road to travel down. |
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| Mar-02-22 | | Atterdag: <Troller: ... I certainly hope not. It is fair for organizers to choose not to invite Karjakin but to actually <ban> a player for expressing his political views is a dangerous road to travel down.> In general you're right, of course. This, however, is not a general situation. Karjakin's wholehearted support of a man who commits assault on an innocent people, lies to his own people, invents fake reasons etc. etc. is not just "political views". We're not talking about harmless views on educational politics, tax regulations or health services. We are talking about giving uncritical support to a dictator, who's willing to kill and oppress civilians to reach his political goals. By supporting Putin and his regime, Karjakin endorses all the atrocities that now take place in Ukraine, while we comfortably write these words. |
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Mar-02-22
| | perfidious: To ban a player as a representative of his/her federation is one thing, but to swing the axe based on that person's political views is travelling down a pernicious road indeed. |
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| Mar-02-22 | | kappertjes: <We're not talking about harmless views on educational politics, tax regulations or health services.> I find the concept that views have to be harmless to be worthy of free speech disturbing. Who is going to be trusted to determine the 'harmlessness' of opinions? This is a common sentiment also when sources of 'dangerous misinformation' are banned. This happened in the context of vaccination and now is used by the EU to ban Russian news outlets. In my opinion banning news and views is not the lesson we should be taking from China and Russia. |
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Mar-02-22
 | | Diademas: Love you to bits <Atterdag>, but have to side with <Troller> here. |
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| Mar-03-22 | | Atterdag: Okay, I hear your objections, gentlemen, in particular since I treasure your opinions and assessments in general. Of course, I don't want to echo "China and Russia"s way of dealing with opposite opinions, and for my sake Karjakin may continue supporting Putin all he wants. But don't you think, words have consequences? The hoardes storming the Congress after hearing encouraging words? The Russians soldiers willingly destroying a country, thereby killing innocent civilians after being told they are nazis? I say: Words have consequences! |
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Feb-02-23
| | offramp: This year's version of this tournament might begin tomorrow. |
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