| 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. S 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. X Bu 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-08-19
 | | AylerKupp: <<keypusher> I think everybody from Stalin to the lowliest muzhik would have told you Bronstein was a Jew> Sorry. I didn't mean to imply that just because the average person in the street might not have known that Bronstein was Ukranian that they didn't know that he was Jewish. |
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Oct-08-19
| | AylerKupp: <<paavoh> Why on earth did the Soviets then allow these players of "undesirable" nationalities even rise to the top tier, become a challenge to their "own" top players and only then try to slow them down?> I can think of 2 reasons, although maybe neither of them is correct: 1. There were probably a lot of promising players of "undesirable" (although I would prefer to refer to them as "less desirable", but that just me nitpicking). And it does take some effort to prevent any one of them from rising to the top, particularly if you don't want to seem that's what you're doing. Since a relatively few of these players would actually rise to the top, it would be much efficient to wait until they had actually reached the top or near-top before any effort was spent in slowing them down or even preventing them from reaching the very top. 2. Chess players improve when they have the opportunity to play better players. Slowing down or preventing some of these "less desirable" players from reaching the top or near-top would reduce the opportunities for the "more desirable" players to improve and slow down their progress to reach the top or near-top. <I am inclined to think the USSR was happy to have a WCC title holder regardless of his nationality.> I would certainly agree with that if the alternative was to have a non-Soviet player be the WCC title holder. But they would have been happier if the WCC title holder was a Russian (preferably with the proper ideology, like Botvinnik and Karpov) rather than a non-Russian. If their choices were between a Russian that did not have the proper ideology and a non-Russian who did, then I'm not sure. |
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Oct-08-19
| | AylerKupp: <<WorstPlayerEver> PS FIDE only cares about how many Roosians are competing. Let's see who gets the wildcard..> The selection of the wildcard is not up to FIDE (although they do set minimum criteria that the wildcard must meet in order to qualify for the Candidates Tournament), it's entirely up to the Candidates Tournament organizer. See https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/..., Section 2.1F. |
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| Oct-08-19 | | diceman: <Sally Simpson: ***
Carlsen's place in Chess History is already secure.> Most rapid WCC titles?
(Am I the only one who notices he's been ducking Shaun Press?) <Everyone seems to think Ding Liren will win the candidates and give Carlsen a run.> Id say more hoping he wins.
Liren's recent defeat of Magnus at rapid/blitz would at least change the
metric of running to speed chess. |
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| Oct-08-19 | | diceman: <<paavoh> Why on earth did the Soviets then allow these players of "undesirable" nationalities even rise to the top tier> So they could "fix" chess.
Even though they are, "undesirable" you still need bunches of them. |
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Oct-08-19
| | AylerKupp: <<keypusher> There is another complication with Keres ...> You're right, I had forgotten that fact about Keres, a similar situation that Alekhine found himself in. Likely a more serious circumstance than being unfortunately born in the wrong place. If indeed that was the case then the Soviets apparently officially "forgave" him, since he was allowed to be a member of the Soviet chess Olympic team in 7 consecutive Olympics starting in 1952. But at that time the Soviets were very eager to establish an international chess reputation, and Keres was undoubtedly one of their strongest players. Any nation's behavior towards their citizens is partly dependent on that nation's interests at the time. As I used to say when I was designing missiles, "If the missile hits the target, all sins will be forgiven". Still, this circumstance certainly would not have helped ameliorate any conspiracy that might have taken place against him. |
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| Oct-08-19 | | WorstPlayerEver: <Absentee: <starry2013: When was the last non-Russian player a wildcard?>
2016 (Aronian). Before that 2013 (Radjabov).> Relative; both were born in the U of SSR. So.. really.. |
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Oct-09-19
 | | Troller: <Wild card will go to a Russian. At the moment only one (Grischuk) looks like getting there on qualification. Nepo has been mentioned but maybe, just maybe they might give it to Vladislav Artemiev for the experince with an eye on the 2022 W.C. match.> Artemiev is not eligible; currently only Nepo fulfils the prerequisites for a wildcard. The wildcard can be given to a top-10 player over 2019 or a runner-up in one of the qualifying events (meaning MVL is now eligible as 3rd place in World Cup, but then he will also be eligible through rating). Hence Nepo is the obvious choice unless Gris ends up 3rd in the GP or a Russian places second in Isle of Man behind a qualifier. |
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Oct-09-19
 | | alexmagnus: <a Russian (preferably with the proper ideology, like Botvinnik and Karpov)> Botvinnik had a "proper ideology" but was actually Jewish. There is a joke about it. Botvinnik and young Kasparov meet. Botvinnik scolds Kasparov for changing his name to (a Russified version of) his mother's name: "See, I didn't do it, I showed character!". Kasparov: "Mikhail Moiseevich, and what was your mother's name?" And here Botvinnik smiled: "Rabinovich". |
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| Oct-09-19 | | Thief: I thought the USSR sent Russians with "improper" ideology to re-education camps and applied lots of "corrections". Can't have people thinking for themselves and coming to the "wrong" conclusions. |
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| Oct-09-19 | | Absentee: <AylerKupp: <<paavoh> Why on earth did the Soviets then allow these players of "undesirable" nationalities even rise to the top tier, become a challenge to their "own" top players and only then try to slow them down?> I can think of 2 reasons, although maybe neither of them is correct: 1. There were probably a lot of promising players of "undesirable" (although I would prefer to refer to them as "less desirable", but that just me nitpicking). And it does take some effort to prevent any one of them from rising to the top, particularly if you don't want to seem that's what you're doing. Since a relatively few of these players would actually rise to the top, it would be much efficient to wait until they had actually reached the top or near-top before any effort was spent in slowing them down or even preventing them from reaching the very top. 2. Chess players improve when they have the opportunity to play better players. Slowing down or preventing some of these "less desirable" players from reaching the top or near-top would reduce the opportunities for the "more desirable" players to improve and slow down their progress to reach the top or near-top. <I am inclined to think the USSR was happy to have a WCC title holder regardless of his nationality.> I would certainly agree with that if the alternative was to have a non-Soviet player be the WCC title holder. But they would have been happier if the WCC title holder was a Russian (preferably with the proper ideology, like Botvinnik and Karpov) rather than a non-Russian. If their choices were between a Russian that did not have the proper ideology and a non-Russian who did, then I'm not sure.> This whole reasoning rests on about a dozen wild-ass assumptions.
Especially considering that the Soviet champions have been, in order: - a Finnish Jew
- a Russian
- a Latvian Jew
- an Armenian
- two Russians
- an Armenian-Russian Jew
<AylerKupp: As I used to say when I was designing missiles, "If the missile hits the target, all sins will be forgiven".> If you're lucky. If you're not, you get to choose between the rope and the cyanide pill. |
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Oct-09-19
| | alexmagnus: <- a Finnish Jew> Botvinnik's birthplace belonged to the Russian Empire when he was born (as Finland was not yet independent), then to Finland, then to the Soviet Union (and within it, to Russia) - it is on that small piece of land that the USSR gained in the Winter War (I always wondered it is usually said that the Soviets lost the Winter War, by the way. Sure, they failed to conquer Finland - but they did gain some territory!) |
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Oct-09-19
 | | keypusher: <alexmagnus: <- a Finnish Jew>
Botvinnik's birthplace belonged to the Russian Empire when he was born (as Finland was not yet independent), then to Finland, then to the Soviet Union (and within it, to Russia) - it is on that small piece of land that the USSR gained in the Winter War> Yes, but Finland was recognized as a distinct region/ethny within the Russian Empire, as Poland was. Botvinnik was born in the "Vyborg Governate, Grand Duchy of Finland" according to Wikipedia. To be fair, Botvinnik's parents were Russian Jews. His self-description: <"I am a Jew by blood, Russian by culture, Soviet by upbringing."> <(I always wondered it is usually said that the Soviets lost the Winter War, by the way. Sure, they failed to conquer Finland - but they did gain some territory!)> I've never heard that the Soviets lost the Winter War. To me the Winter War is like one of those American college football games where Behemoth State is matched up against Tiny Teachers College, and TTC puts up a terrific fight and is leading for a while, but in the second half B.S. gets it together and winds up winning by 10. |
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| Oct-09-19 | | Pedro Fernandez: I'm some worried whether our great <Sokrates> is fine as he has long time without posting. Perhaps his great friend, <perfidious> could know something about him. |
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Oct-09-19
| | keypusher: <Pedro Fernandez> He posted this on September 12. He is missed!
< Sokrates: I have come to realise that I should take a long break from posting here. Meanwhile, take care, gentlemen, I wish you well.> |
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Oct-09-19
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi Troller,
I'm aware there are a few if's and buts to get Vladislav Artemiev in, hence my added maybe, just maybe, I think it's more wishful thinking on my part. A lot will become clearer after the I.O.M. which start tomorrow. (just logged on - not looked yet, hopefully they have set up a page for it here.) *** |
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Oct-09-19
| | Sally Simpson: ....not yet (see above) we do have this:
Isle of Man Masters (2018) |
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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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