The Chess World Cup 2013 was a 128-player

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tournament, played between 11 August and 2 September 2013, in the hotel Scandic Tromsø in

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, Norway. It was won by

Vladimir Kramnik Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (russian: Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Cha ...

, who defeated

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2½–1½ in the final match. The finalists qualified for the

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. The winner of the

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, was defeated by

in the quarter-finals.

Format

Matches consisted of two games (except for the final, which consisted of four). Players had 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an

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of 30 seconds per move from the start of the game. If a match was tied after the regular games, tie breaks were played on the next day. The format for the tie breaks was as follows: * Two

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games (25 minutes plus 10 seconds

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) were to be played. * If the score was tied after two rapid games, two rapid games (10 minutes plus 10 seconds increment) were to be played. * If the score was tied after four rapid games, the opponents were to play two

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games (five minutes plus three seconds increment). * If the score was tied after a pair of blitz games, an

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game (in which a draw counts as a win for Black) was played. White would have five minutes and Black would have four minutes, and both players would have a three seconds per move increment beginning with move 61.

Prize money

Participants

The participating players were seeded by their July 2013

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s: , 2813 (R) , 2796 (R) , 2784 (R) , 2780 (WC) , 2776 (R) , 2775 (R) , 2773 (R) , 2763 (R) , 2761 (R) , 2757 (R) , 2756 (WC) , 2752 (R) , 2746 (WC) , 2740 (R) , 2737 (R) , 2736 (R) , 2734 (E12) , 2734 (R) , 2733 (WC) , 2733 (R) , 2727 (E12) , 2720 (E13) , 2719 (PN) , 2717 (R) , 2715 (PN) , 2714 (E12) , 2714 (E13) , 2713 (E12) , 2712 (AS13) , 2709 (E13) , 2709 (E12) , 2709 (R) , 2708 (Z3.3) , 2708 (E12) , 2708 (E12) , 2706 (E12) , 2702 (E13) , 2701 (R) , 2699 (E13) , 2699 (E13) , 2696 (R) , 2696 (PN) , 2693 (E12) , 2691 (E12) , 2689 (Z2.3) , 2688 (E12) , 2686 (AS13) , 2680 (E13) , 2680 (E12) , 2679 (AM12) , 2678 (E12) , 2672 (E12) , 2668 (E12) , 2667 (E13) , 2667 (Z2.1) , 2665 (E12) , 2664 (E13) , 2662 (E13) , 2660 (E13) , 2660 (AS13) , 2659 (E13) , 2658 (E12) , 2657 (AS12) , 2656 (E13) , 2651 (E13) , 2651 (E13) , 2651 (E12) , 2650 (J11) , 2650 (E13) , 2650 (AF) , 2643 (Z3.4) , 2643 (E12) , 2643 (E12) , 2642 (Z2.3) , 2638 (E13) , 2636 (E12) , 2635 (E13) , 2634 (AS12) , 2632 (E13) , 2632 (Z2.4) , 2632 (E13) , 2631 (E13) , 2628 (Z2.1) , 2628 (E12) , 2625 (Z3.3) , 2620 (E13) , 2612 (AM13) , 2600 (PN) , 2599 (ON) , 2596 (AF) , 2595 (Z2.4) , 2593 (E13) , 2592 (AM13) , 2586 (Z2.5) , 2584 (Z2.1) , 2583 (J12) , 2583 (Z2.1) , 2581 (AM12) , 2577 (AM12) , 2572 (AS12) , 2569 (AS13) , 2567 (AS13) , 2567 (ON) , 2562 (Z2.5) , 2557 (PN) , 2553 (AM12) , 2549 (E12) , 2548 (Z3.1) , 2543 (AM13) , 2536, IM (PN) , 2531 (AS12) , 2530 (Z2.1) , 2530 (Z2.2) , 2520 (ON) , 2509, IM (Z3.5) , 2500 (WWC) , 2500, IM (AS12) , 2492, IM (ON) , 2490 (AF) , 2487, IM (Z4.2) , 2483, IM (Z3.5) , 2470 (Z3.2) , 2434, WGM (AM13) , 2371, untitled (Z4.1) , 2341, FM (Z3.6) , 2341, FM (Z4.3) , 2332, IM (Z3.7) , 2305, untitled (Z3.4) All players are grandmasters unless indicated otherwise.

Qualification paths

*WC: Semi-finalists of the

*WWC: Women's World Champion *J11 and J12: World Junior Champions 2011 and 2012 *R: Rating (average of all published ratings from March 2012 to January 2013 is used) *E12 and E13: European Individual Championships 2012 and 2013 *AM12 and AM13: American Continental Championship 2012 and 2013 *AS12 and AS13:

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2012 and 2013 *AF:

African Chess Championship The first African Chess Championship was played in 1998. Ibrahim Hasan Labib and Mohamed Tissir both shared first place with 7/10, but the former took the title. The 2007 championship was the FIDE Zone 4 qualifier for the Chess World Cup 2007, th ...

2013 * Z2.1, Z2.2, Z2.3, Z2.4, Z2.5, Z3.1, Z3.2, Z3.3, Z3.4, Z3.5, Z3.6, Z3.7, Z4.1, Z4.2, Z4.3: Zonal tournaments *PN: FIDE president nominee *ON: Organizer nominee

Prominent non-participants

Magnus Carlsen Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster who is the reigning five-time World Chess Champion. He is also a three-time World Rapid Chess Champion and five-time World Blitz Chess Champion. Carlsen has h ...

Viswanathan Anand Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former five-time World Chess Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and is one of the few players to have surpassed an Elo rating of ...

, and

Veselin Topalov Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov (pronounced ; bg, Весели́н Александров Топа́лов; born 15 March 1975) is a Bulgarian chess International Grandmaster, grandmaster and former FIDE World Chess Championship, World Chess Champ ...

qualified for the event, but they declined to participate. The only other player from the world's top 30 who did not participate is

Ding Liren Ding Liren (; born 24 October 1992) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. He is the highest rated Chinese chess player in history and is also a three-time Chinese Chess Champion. He was the winner of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour, beating Maxime Vachi ...

Levon Aronian Levon Grigori Aronian ( hy, Լևոն Գրիգորի Արոնյան, Levon Grigori Aronyan; born 6 October 1982) is an Armenians, Armenian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster, who currently plays for the United States Chess Federation. A ches ...

(who declined to play in 2009 and 2011) and

(who had never played in a Chess World Cup) chose to participate because FIDE made participation in either the

Chess World Cup The FIDE World Cup refers to three different events over the years. Since 2000, it has been a major chess event organized by FIDE, the International Chess Federation. Since 2005, it has been a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, formi ...

or the

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series mandatory for qualification to the 2014 Candidates Tournament through rating.

Post-tournament opinions

In particular,

Alexander Grischuk Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Grischuk was the Russian champion in 2009. He is also a three-time world blitz chess champion (in 2006, 2012 and 2015). He has competed in five Candidates T ...

was decidedly negative about the organization, as was noted coach

Vladimir Chuchelov Vladimir Chuchelov (russian: Владимир Чучелов; born 28 September 1969 in Moscow) is a Belgian chess grandmaster and professional trainer. He won the Belgian Chess Championship in 2000. He appeared four times in the FIDE top 100, ...

."These Were the Worst Conditions I Have Experienced In Last Ten Years"
(Chuchelov, Chess-News)

Calendar

Results, rounds 1–4

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Results, rounds 5–7

Final, 30 August – 2 September

References

External links

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Chess World Cup 2013 games

Chess World Cup 2013 at Chessdom
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