chess
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tournament that formed part of the qualification cycle for the
World Chess Championship 2021
The World Chess Championship 2021 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi to determine the World Chess Champion. It was held under the auspices of FIDE and played during Expo 202 ...
. It was played on October 10 to 21 2019, on the
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.FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss Tournament
FIDE
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national c ...
, April 19, 2019 This was the first time that a tournament of this type was used as a qualifying tournament for the Candidates Tournament.
Wang Hao and
Fabiano Caruana
Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an American chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, Caruana became a grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, and 20 days—the youngest grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United Sta ...
shared first place, with Wang Hao winning on tie breaks and thereby qualifying for the 2020–21 Candidates Tournament. Of the players who shared third place,
Kirill Alekseenko
Kirill Alexeyevich Alekseenko (russian: Кирилл Алексеевич Алексеенко; born 22 June 1997) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
Personal life
Alekseenko was born in Vyborg, and moved to Saint Petersburg as a child. His fathe ...
had the best tie break and became eligible for the Candidates wild card as the next-highest placed non-qualifier, as Caruana had already qualified for the Candidates by virtue of being the runner-up in the previous World Championship. Alekseenko was later selected as the Candidates wild card.Ruchess - Statement of the CFR President: Andrey Filatov: Kirill Alekseenko to Get Wild Card from Organizer of FIDE Candidates Tournament (23 December, 2019) /ref>
The highest-placed female players were
Harika Dronavalli
Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Dronavalli was honored with the ...
Swiss-system tournament
A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other ...
, with 154 players invited, including 100 qualifying by rating.FIDE updates and the World Championship cycle Chessbase, April 26, 2019Rules for the FIDE Grand Swiss 2019
FIDE
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national c ...
The qualification by rating was based on the average of the 12 rating lists from July 2018 to June 2019. The list of qualifiers (except for those qualifying by continental championships) was published on 10 June 2019.
The time control for the games was:
* Time limit of 100 minutes, + 50 minutes added after move 40, + 15 minutes added after move 60, + 30 second per move increment from move 1.
Tie breaks
In the event of a tie for first, the following tie breaks were applied, in order:
* Average rating of opponents, Cut 1 (that is, after excluding the lowest rated opponent);
* Buchholz Cut 1 method: Average score of opponents, excluding the lowest scoring opponent;
* Buchholz method: Average score of opponents;
* Individual games between tied players;
* Drawing of lots.
Schedule
The first six rounds were played from 10th to 15th of October, and the last five rounds from 17th to 21st of October.
* Round 1: October 10 — 3:00 p.m. (
CEST CEST or cest may refer to:
* Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), daylight saving time observed in the central European time zone
* Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory
* Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer, a subset of Magnetization transfer in ...
)
* Round 2: October 11 — 3:00 p.m. (
CEST CEST or cest may refer to:
* Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), daylight saving time observed in the central European time zone
* Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory
* Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer, a subset of Magnetization transfer in ...
)
* Round 3: October 12 — 3:00 p.m. (
CEST CEST or cest may refer to:
* Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), daylight saving time observed in the central European time zone
* Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory
* Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer, a subset of Magnetization transfer in ...
)
* Round 4: October 13 — 3:00 p.m. (
CEST CEST or cest may refer to:
* Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), daylight saving time observed in the central European time zone
* Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory
* Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer, a subset of Magnetization transfer in ...
)
* Round 5: October 14 — 3:00 p.m. (
CEST CEST or cest may refer to:
* Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), daylight saving time observed in the central European time zone
* Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory
* Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer, a subset of Magnetization transfer in ...
)
* Round 6: October 15 — 3:00 p.m. (
CEST CEST or cest may refer to:
* Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), daylight saving time observed in the central European time zone
* Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory
* Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer, a subset of Magnetization transfer in ...
)
* Rest day: October 16
* Round 7: October 17 — 3:00 p.m. (
CEST CEST or cest may refer to:
* Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), daylight saving time observed in the central European time zone
* Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory
* Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer, a subset of Magnetization transfer in ...
)
* Round 8: October 18 — 3:00 p.m. (
CEST CEST or cest may refer to:
* Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), daylight saving time observed in the central European time zone
* Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory
* Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer, a subset of Magnetization transfer in ...
)
* Round 9: October 19 — 3:00 p.m. (
CEST CEST or cest may refer to:
* Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), daylight saving time observed in the central European time zone
* Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory
* Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer, a subset of Magnetization transfer in ...
)
* Round 10: October 20 — 3:00 p.m. (
CEST CEST or cest may refer to:
* Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), daylight saving time observed in the central European time zone
* Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory
* Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer, a subset of Magnetization transfer in ...
)
* Round 11: October 21 — 1:30 p.m. (
CEST CEST or cest may refer to:
* Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), daylight saving time observed in the central European time zone
* Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory
* Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer, a subset of Magnetization transfer in ...
)
Prize money
The prize money was $70,000 for the winner and $10,000 for the best woman.
Participants and results
154 players played in the Grand Swiss. 100 qualified by rating (according to the average of the 12 monthly rating lists from July 2018 to June 2019), 18 qualified by continental championships, and 36 wildcards were chosen by the organizers.
The participants, their FIDE ratings as of October 2019 and the results are listed here (hover over results to see opponents). The "Rank" column takes account of tie breaks.FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss 2019 Results chess-results.com