| World Cup (2019) |
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The 2019 FIDE World Cup was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from 10 September to 4 October. The 128-player knockout tournament featured most of the world's best players. The total prize fund was $1.6 million, with $110,000 for the winner and $6,000 for first round losers. The two finalists would qualify for the Candidates tournament next year that would determine Magnus Carlsen 's next World Championship challenger. The format was six knockout rounds of 2-game Classical matches before a 4-game final. For the first time since 2011 there was also a 4-game match for 3rd place between the losing semifinalists. The time control was 90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1. If the score was tied the players then played two 25-minute + 10-second increment Rapid games, then if necessary two 10+10 Rapid games, two 5+3 Blitz games, and an Armageddon game where White had 5 minutes to Black's 4 but a draw qualified Black for the next round. Chief arbiter: Ashot Vardapetian. On way to the final, Tejmour Radjabov eliminated Helgi Dam Ziska in Round 1, Sanan Sjugirov in Round 2, Daniil Yuffa in Round 3, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in Round 4, Jeffery Xiong in the quarterfinal and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the semifinal. Ding Liren eliminated Shaun Press in Round 1, Sergei Movsesian in Round 2, Alireza Firouzja in Round 3, Kirill Alekseenko in Round 4, Alexander Grischuk in the quarterfinal, and Yu Yangyi in the semifinal. The final match started on 30 September. After 2-2 in the Classical games and 2-2 in the Rapid, Radjabov won both Blitz games and became the surprise winner. Both players qualified for the World Championship Candidates (2020/21), but Radjabov withdrew from this (on 6 March 2020) and was replaced by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who beat Yu Yangyi in the match for 3rd place. Classic Rapid Blitz
Elo 1 2 3 4 1 2 1 2 1 2
1 Teimour Radjabov 2758 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 6
2 Ding Liren 2811 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 4
3 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2774 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 - - - - 4
4 Yu Yangyi 2763 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 - - - - 2
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Wikipedia article: Chess World Cup 2019
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Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. S Press vs Ding Liren |
  | 0-1 | 34 | 2019 | World Cup | A07 King's Indian Attack |
| 2. Giri vs R Mohammad Fahad |
| 1-0 | 47 | 2019 | World Cup | B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack |
| 3. D Anwuli vs Vachier-Lagrave |
| 0-1 | 51 | 2019 | World Cup | A29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto |
| 4. So vs S Duran Vega |
| 1-0 | 45 | 2019 | World Cup | A20 English |
| 5. Sugar Gan-Erdene vs Nepomniachtchi |
| 0-1 | 37 | 2019 | World Cup | B90 Sicilian, Najdorf |
| 6. Aronian vs E El Gindy |
| ½-½ | 61 | 2019 | World Cup | A36 English |
| 7. F Rakotomaharo vs Mamedyarov |
| 0-1 | 40 | 2019 | World Cup | B15 Caro-Kann |
| 8. Dominguez Perez vs A Escobar Forero |
| 1-0 | 54 | 2019 | World Cup | B45 Sicilian, Taimanov |
| 9. P Pultinevicius vs Grischuk |
| 0-1 | 36 | 2019 | World Cup | D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav |
| 10. Radjabov vs H Ziska |
| 1-0 | 31 | 2019 | World Cup | E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto |
| 11. I Iljiushenok vs V Artemiev |
| ½-½ | 34 | 2019 | World Cup | B12 Caro-Kann Defense |
| 12. Y Yu vs E Ghaem Maghami |
| 1-0 | 37 | 2019 | World Cup | D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted |
| 13. S Megaranto vs Karjakin |
| 0-1 | 70 | 2019 | World Cup | E00 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 14. Nakamura vs B Bellahcene |
| ½-½ | 38 | 2019 | World Cup | E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3 |
| 15. K Mekhitarian vs D Andreikin |
| ½-½ | 56 | 2019 | World Cup | D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav |
| 16. Wojtaszek vs J Christiansen |
| 0-1 | 51 | 2019 | World Cup | E60 King's Indian Defense |
| 17. Y Gonzalez Vidal vs Harikrishna |
| 0-1 | 51 | 2019 | World Cup | C53 Giuoco Piano |
| 18. Duda vs C Henriquez Villagra |
| 1-0 | 34 | 2019 | World Cup | B69 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 11.Bxf6 |
| 19. C Albornoz Cabrera vs Svidler |
| ½-½ | 38 | 2019 | World Cup | A33 English, Symmetrical |
| 20. Vitiugov vs F Urkedal |
| ½-½ | 42 | 2019 | World Cup | E01 Catalan, Closed |
| 21. M Santos Ruiz vs Wei Yi |
| ½-½ | 31 | 2019 | World Cup | B90 Sicilian, Najdorf |
| 22. Le Quang Liem vs A Aleksandrov |
| ½-½ | 41 | 2019 | World Cup | C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense |
| 23. D Yuffa vs Navara |
| ½-½ | 55 | 2019 | World Cup | E12 Queen's Indian |
| 24. Bu Xiangzhi vs X Xu |
| ½-½ | 39 | 2019 | World Cup | A07 King's Indian Attack |
| 25. A Pridorozhni vs H Wang |
| ½-½ | 55 | 2019 | World Cup | B91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation |
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| Oct-09-19 | | Pedro Fernandez: Yeah, my great <KP>! I forgot it, thanks my friend! PS. It will be that "The German" is touching me in my 39? |
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| Oct-09-19 | | Pedro Fernandez: Hey <AK>, did you know about this?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of7... |
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Oct-09-19
 | | AylerKupp: <<Absentee> This whole reasoning rests on about a dozen wild-ass assumptions.> Well, I did say that "I can think of 2 reasons, although maybe neither of them is correct" :-) <If you're lucky. If you're not, you get to choose between the rope and the cyanide pill.> I guess I was lucky most of the time. But I do have some scar marks around my neck for those times when I was not. |
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Oct-09-19
| | AylerKupp: <<alexmagnus> Countries, like city names, often change. So it's sometimes important to not only be born in the right place but at the right time. Which is just a segue to one of my favorite jokes, which I've told before: Robert James Fischer (kibitz #52353). It seems somehow related to this discussion because the name of this tournament, after all, is the "World Cup". |
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Oct-09-19
| | AylerKupp: <Pedro Fernandez> No, I did not! And having guitars in the orchestra is very unusual, I had not seen that before. But I miss the battleship though. |
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| Oct-09-19 | | DirkMcCallahan: According to Wiki it seems as if MVL has already qualified for a potential wildcard slot, so my question here is more theoretical than anything, but what would happen if no player met FIDE's requirements for the wildcard? Is there any provision in the official rules for such a situation? |
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| Oct-09-19 | | nok: <I'm some worried whether our great <Sokrates> is fine as he has long time without posting.> Sokrates is tending to his young, working wife.
Gashimov Memorial (2019) (kibitz #485) |
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| Oct-09-19 | | parmetd: <DirkMcCallahan.> That's literally impossible. Since being in the top ten qualifies you... If we assume Carlsen + 7 qualified candidates occupy the top ten... By definition there must be two eligible wild card nominations from this method alone before we look at the 2x runner up method. |
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| Oct-09-19 | | Absentee: <AylerKupp: I guess I was lucky most of the time. But I do have some scar marks around my neck for those times when I was not.> I doubt it. You can be lucky for a lifetime, but you can only be unlucky once. |
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| Oct-09-19 | | LameJokes: CG has created a new game page for Grand Swiss IoM (2019). Surprisingly, no one is kibitzing over there. May be, we love World Cup more than anything else. |
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Oct-09-19
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CG has created a new game page for Grand Swiss IoM (2019). Surprisingly, no one is kibitzing over there. May be, we love World Cup more than anything else.> I'm 100% certain off-topic posts will begin soon enough. |
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| Oct-09-19 | | LameJokes: <diceman: I'm 100% certain off-topic posts will begin soon enough.> What do you do when the event hasn’t even begun? CG should allow 100% off-topic posts before and after the event. In that case, we won’t mind 50% ceiling during the tournament. BTW, I am ‘Le premier.’ I hope the post is somehow on-topic. |
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| Oct-09-19 | | devere: <parmetd: <DirkMcCallahan.> That's literally impossible. Since being in the top ten qualifies you...> That was my initial thought, but then I realized that the requirement is top ten by average rating plus participation in two world championship qualification events. For example, Anand is top ten, but is not eligible to be chosen as the wild card due to lack of participation. Grischuk is eligible, because while he is 12th in live rating he is 9th in average rating. I'm confident they will find someone to play! |
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Oct-09-19
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Correct me if I'm wrong (the rules are a bit confusing), but... The rules allow the wildcard to go to the <highest non-qualifier> in the World Cup, Grand Swiss or Grand Prix. For one not to exist, it would have to mean that each of those events had at most 7 participants, all of whom qualified as non-wildcards. |
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| Oct-09-19 | | fabelhaft: There is a possible outcome where for example MVL and Grischuk are the only eligible wild cards. For example Anand is in the top ten but not eligible due to lack of participation in qualifying events. |
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Oct-09-19
| | beatgiant: <DirkMcCallahan>
Oh, there is one other condition, to qualify as a World Cup, Grand Swiss or Grand Prix runner-up, a person must play in at least two of these events. So it could happen that all of the runners-up played in only one of them, and all of the non-qualifying top 10 rated players also played in only one of them. If that did happen, would they simply have only 7 players in the Candidates Tournament? That's what it seems from the rules. But in real life, I think enough players have played in two or more of the events to make that scenario impossible. |
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Oct-09-19
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I don't understand your scenario. Are you assuming that Grischuk is the runner-up from the Grand Prix and also the runner-up in the Grand Swiss?If anyone else but Grischuk is the runner-up in the Grand Swiss, that person will be the third eligible wild card. Am I wrong? |
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Oct-09-19
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I suppose there could be only two eligible wildcards in case Grischuk is the runner-up in the Grand Prix and wins the Grand Swiss, and so Vachier-Lagrave and the runner-up in the Grand Swiss can be wildcards? |
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| Oct-09-19 | | fabelhaft: <beatgiant>
It ought to be possible for MVL and Grischuk to occupy the ”closest to qualify” spots in all events, while Mamedyarov and Nepomniachtchi qualify from Grand Prix, and So from the Grand Swiss. But it won’t be easy to end up with such a situation. |
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| Oct-09-19 | | WorstPlayerEver: In real sports you kinda know who's playing who. |
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Oct-09-19
| | diceman: <WorstPlayerEver:
In real sports you kinda know who's playing who.> About an hour into round 1, we should be 95% sure who is in the Candidates. |
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| Oct-10-19 | | WorstPlayerEver: <diceman>
I was talking about an easy-to-follow schedule, sorry for not being specific. |
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| Oct-10-19 | | WorstPlayerEver: A knock-out tournament with 128 players is not preferable, because the playing field in chess is very limited in comparison to other sports. In other words: 2 players end up in a hall which was, by intention, economically meant for 128 players in advance. For instance: Wimbledon is a given venue; it does not matter if two players end up at court 1. The other courts are still there. In chess, however, the courts will eventually be reduced from 64 to 2. A matter of managing logistics. |
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| Oct-10-19 | | WorstPlayerEver: Correction: 4 players end up in a large hall. |
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| Mar-26-20 | | Petrosianic: <What do you notice about first eight Fide World Champions?> I notice that you left out 1958 and 1961, throwing your whole list off. |
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