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TOURNAMENT STANDINGS
GRENKE Chess Classic Tournament

Magnus Carlsen8.5/12(+6 -1 =5)[games]
Vincent Keymer8/17(+3 -4 =10)[games]
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave7.5/14(+2 -1 =11)[games]
Ding Liren7/16(+2 -4 =10)[games]
Richard Rapport6.5/12(+4 -3 =5)[games]
Daniel Fridman5.5/15(+2 -6 =7)[games]

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
GRENKE Chess Classic (2024)

Name: Grenke Chess Classic
Event Date: March 26 - April 1, 2024
Site: Karlsruhe GER
Format: 10 Rounds, 6-player DRR & Play-off; TC: 45m+10spm

Official site: https://www.grenkechessopen.de/en/

Results/standings: https://chess-results.com/tnr917509...

 page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 43  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Rapport vs Carlsen 1-0412024GRENKE Chess ClassicB12 Caro-Kann Defense
2. Keymer vs Fridman  ½-½352024GRENKE Chess ClassicD05 Queen's Pawn Game
3. Keymer vs Vachier-Lagrave ½-½712024GRENKE Chess ClassicD20 Queen's Gambit Accepted
4. Fridman vs Carlsen 0-1682024GRENKE Chess ClassicA47 Queen's Indian
5. Vachier-Lagrave vs Ding Liren  ½-½382024GRENKE Chess ClassicD02 Queen's Pawn Game
6. Ding Liren vs Rapport ½-½182024GRENKE Chess ClassicA62 Benoni, Fianchetto Variation
7. Vachier-Lagrave vs Fridman 0-1542024GRENKE Chess ClassicC02 French, Advance
8. Carlsen vs Ding Liren ½-½482024GRENKE Chess ClassicD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
9. Rapport vs Keymer  ½-½642024GRENKE Chess ClassicC53 Giuoco Piano
10. Rapport vs Fridman 1-0252024GRENKE Chess ClassicA07 King's Indian Attack
11. Carlsen vs Vachier-Lagrave ½-½712024GRENKE Chess ClassicB50 Sicilian
12. Ding Liren vs Keymer ½-½592024GRENKE Chess ClassicE21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights
13. Vachier-Lagrave vs Rapport 1-0702024GRENKE Chess ClassicC18 French, Winawer
14. Fridman vs Keymer ½-½632024GRENKE Chess ClassicA05 Reti Opening
15. Ding Liren vs Vachier-Lagrave ½-½382024GRENKE Chess ClassicE60 King's Indian Defense
16. Carlsen vs Rapport 1-0322024GRENKE Chess ClassicA70 Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3
17. Fridman vs Ding Liren  ½-½472024GRENKE Chess ClassicA04 Reti Opening
18. Keymer vs Carlsen 0-1662024GRENKE Chess ClassicA60 Benoni Defense
19. Keymer vs Rapport 0-1362024GRENKE Chess ClassicA67 Benoni, Taimanov Variation
20. Ding Liren vs Carlsen  ½-½362024GRENKE Chess ClassicE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
21. Fridman vs Vachier-Lagrave  ½-½312024GRENKE Chess ClassicD79 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O, Main line
22. Carlsen vs Fridman  1-0422024GRENKE Chess ClassicC07 French, Tarrasch
23. Rapport vs Ding Liren 1-0542024GRENKE Chess ClassicC26 Vienna
24. Vachier-Lagrave vs Keymer  ½-½522024GRENKE Chess ClassicE46 Nimzo-Indian
25. Ding Liren vs Fridman 1-0542024GRENKE Chess ClassicD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
 page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 43  PGN Download
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Mar-28-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: hey, real chess!
Mar-28-24  Messiah: The live transmission does not work. 😎
Mar-28-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  Check It Out: <HeMateMe: hey, real chess>

Almost. It's 45m + 10sec

Mar-28-24  Messiah: C'mon Annoyingface! DISMANTLE him in the Modern Benoni!
Mar-28-24  EvanTheTerrible: More interesting than this rapid tournament is the classical Open event that runs in parallel in the same venue. The Open is headlined by Erigaisi, Sarana, Fedoseev, Sjugirov, Niemann, Anton Guijarro, Saric, Schevchenko, Kamsky, and Mishra among others.
Mar-28-24  greed and death: Will CG be having a page for the open?
Mar-28-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: See chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #41482).
Mar-28-24  csmath: How many times I watched Magnus brilliant chess? Yet another brilliant game against Rapport today. His book of the best games will be an encyclopedia in volume.
Mar-28-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: Bottom rail's on top.

All that slagging after the loss to Rapport, yet Carlsen has reeled off 4/5 since.

Mar-29-24  Voice without Words: Former champion leading by 1
Mar-29-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: Ding has six draws so far.
Mar-29-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: For those unable to count.
Mar-30-24  Messiah: Justin's in trouble! :-)
Mar-30-24  Messiah: Justin won. :-(
Mar-30-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: Ding broke his draw streak. Rapport and Magnus playing lots of decisive games!
Mar-30-24  Rdb: Arjun erigaisi playing in Grenke open - so far in 5 rounds ,he has 4 wins and one draw . 4 wins earned him 3.6 rating points and one draw cost him 4.2 rating points .

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Mar-30-24  Rdb: This is the draw that cost Arjun erigaisi 4.2 rating points in grenke open

<GM Arjun Erigaisi was held to a draw by promising Romanian talent - 12-year-old FM Henry Edward Tudor. The game reached at a queen vs rook and knight endgame after 34 moves. The boy defended for 102 moves and built a fortress to claim an important half point>

https://www.chessbase.in/news/GRENK...

Mar-30-24  fabelhaft: It has looked better for Ding Liren here than in previous events, but still unusual results for a World Champion against the top players. The highest ranked opponent he has won against as title holder is #25 in Tata, but in OTB games in all formats (classical, rapid, blitz and 960) against players ranked higher than 25th, Ding has at the moment scored +0-18=22.
Mar-30-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <fabelhaft....The highest ranked opponent he has won against as title holder is #25 in Tata, but in OTB games in all formats (classical, rapid, blitz and 960) against players ranked higher than 25th, Ding has at the moment scored +0-18=22.>

This makes Flohr finishing as bottom marker at AVRO look downright respectable, for all the negative press.

Will Ding book a similar result to Leningrad-Moscow 1939 and return to form?

Mar-31-24  metatron2: <Check It Out: <HeMateMe: hey, real chess> Almost. It's 45m + 10sec>

It seems like someone up there was reading <Atterdag>'s comments after all.. Since he is been talking forever, about getting those intermediate time controls into the top level (and more specifically about getting them into WC matches).

Mar-31-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: Well, it's kind of looking like Ding will be 'world champion' like Ponomariov and Khalifman...But, let's wait and see. Ding may yet surprise the chess world.
Mar-31-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  Atterdag: Hi, <mt2>, I just saw your post. LOL - I don't think anyone outside these forums read my suggestions, but that's also of no matter as long as they implement the core of the idea: A hybrid between classical chess and rapid.

Perhaps, if they introduced 45-60 minutes INSTEAD of the classics, both in the Candidates and in the WC matches, Carlsen would give it a go again. Messiah would be thrilled!

I know, it's never going to happen, but one is allowed to make wishes, right? :-)

Mar-31-24  paavoh: <<GM Arjun Erigaisi was held to a draw by promising Romanian talent - 12-year-old FM Henry Edward Tudor. The game reached at a queen vs rook and knight endgame after 34 moves. The boy defended for 102 moves and built a fortress to claim an important half point>> <Henry Edward Tudor> That is a royal name for sure.
Mar-31-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: I've been treating this tournament all along as if the 'fast classical' time control meant the games were still rated as classical. How mistaken I was!

<A ‘Rapid chess’ game is one where either all the moves must be completed in a fixed time of more than 10 minutes but less than 60 minutes for each player; or the time allotted plus 60 times any increment is of more than 10 minutes but less than 60 minutes for each player.>

https://rcc.fide.com/appendixa/

Mar-31-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  PawnSac: well it looks like Fridman, the lowest rated player has a better overall performance than Ding. hmm. so what do we expect in the wcc?
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