Chessable Masters

Magnus Carlsen, initiator of the tournament

The Chessable Masters was an online rapid chess tournament that ran from June 20th to July 5th, 2020. It is the third tournament on the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour . In addition to the world chess champion Magnus Carlsen , who organized the tournament in cooperation with the chess platform Chess24.com , eleven other top players took part.

background

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , sports operations around the world largely came to a standstill; in chess, the Yekaterinburg 2020 candidates' tournament was last interrupted on March 26th. However , chess continues to be played online via chess servers , also by numerous top players. After the successful implementation of the Magnus Carlsen Invitational , the event was expanded to include three more online tournaments and then ends in the Grand Final . The tournament series is endowed with a total of $ 1,000,000 in prize money.

transmission

The tournament was broadcast free of charge on Chess24.com and commented on in 10 languages.

mode

Prize money of $ 150,000 was awarded for the tournament, of which the winner received $ 45,000. The thinking time was 15 minutes plus 10 seconds per move. Draw offers before move 40 were not allowed. The tournament was initially played in the preliminary round (June 20th to June 23rd) as a double round tournament in two groups of six players, with each group playing two games against each other. The two groups played alternately on a daily basis and five rounds were played each day.

After the preliminary round, the best four players in each group qualified for the knockout round. The best player in Group A met in the quarter-finals (June 25th to June 29th) against the fourth-placed player in Group B, the second in Group A against the third in Group B, the third in Group A against the second in Group B and the fourth in group A on the first in group B. There were three mini-matches per encounter. Each mini-match consisted of four rapid games with the same time limit as in the preliminary round. In the event of a tie, two blitz games were played with a time limit of 5 minutes plus three seconds per move. If it was still a tie, an Armageddon game was played in which White had five minutes and Black four minutes. The winners of the quarter-finals played the overall winner in the same mode from June 30th to July 2nd. The winner of the game first group A against fourth group B against the winner from the game third group A against second group B and the winner of the game second group A against third group B against the winner of the game fourth group A against first group B.

Attendees

No.	Surname	Elo rating rapid chess (June 2020)	World Ranking Rapid Chess (June 2020)	Elo rating Blitzschess (June 2020)	World ranking blitz chess (June 2020)	Elo Classic (June 2020)	World Ranking Classic (June 2020)
1	Magnus Carlsen	2881	1	2887	2	2863	1
2	Fabiano Caruana	2773	11	2711	35	2835	2
3	Ding Liren	2836	3	2788	8th	2791	3
4th	Jan Nepomnyashchi	2778	9	2785	10	2784	4th
5	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2860	2	2822	3	2778	5
6th	Alexander Grishchuk	2774	7th	2799	14th	2777	6th
7th	Teymur Rəcəbov	2758	15th	2757	18th	2765	9
8th	Anish Giri	2731	24	2752	22nd	2764	10
9	Hikaru Nakamura	2829	4th	2900	1	2736	18th
10	P. Harikrishna	2690	51	2663	65	2719	26th
11	Vladislav Artemyev	2769	13	2783	12	2716	29
12	Daniil Dubov	2770	12	2720	32	2699	38

Results

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round, each player played twice against each other player in his group. The first four of each group made it to the quarter-finals.

Group A

game	Surname	Game 1	Game 2
1	Artemyev	1	1
	Harikrishna	0	0
2	Dubow	½	½
	Grishchuk	½	½
3	Nakamura	½	0
	Carlsen	½	1
4th	Harikrishna	0	½
	Carlsen	1	½
5	Grishchuk	½	½
	Nakamura	½	½
6th	Artemyev	1	0
	Dubow	0	1
7th	Dubow	1	½
	Harikrishna	0	½
8th	Nakamura	½	½
	Artemyev	½	½
9	Carlsen	½	½
	Grishchuk	½	½
10	Nakamura	½	½
	Harikrishna	½	½
11	Carlsen	0	1
	Dubow	1	0
12	Grishchuk	½	½
	Artemyev	½	½
13	Harikrishna	1	0
	Grishchuk	0	1
14th	Artemyev	½	½
	Carlsen	½	½
15th	Dubow	½	0
	Nakamura	½	1
Group graduation
space	Surname	Total points
1	Carlsen	6/10
2	Artemyev	6/10
3	Nakamura	5/10
4th	Grishchuk	5/10
5	Dubow	5/10
6th	Harikrishna	3/10

Group B

game	Surname	Game 1	Game 2
1	Caruana	½	½
	thing	½	½
2	Nepomnyashchi	1	½
	Rəcəbov	0	½
3	Vachier-Lagrave	½	½
	Giri	½	½
4th	thing	½	0
	Giri	½	1
5	Rəcəbov	½	1
	Vachier-Lagrave	½	0
6th	Caruana	1	0
	Nepomnyashchi	0	1
7th	Nepomnyashchi	½	0
	thing	½	1
8th	Vachier-Lagrave	1	0
	Caruana	0	1
9	Giri	½	½
	Rəcəbov	½	½
10	Vachier-Lagrave	½	0
	thing	½	1
11	Giri	½	½
	Nepomnyashchi	½	½
12	Rəcəbov	0	½
	Caruana	1	½
13	thing	½	½
	Rəcəbov	½	½
14th	Caruana	0	½
	Giri	1	½
15th	Nepomnyashchi	½	1
	Vachier-Lagrave	½	0
Group graduation
space	Surname	Total points
1	Giri	6/10
2	thing	5½ / 10
3	Nepomnyashchi	5½ / 10
4th	Caruana	5/10
5	Rəcəbov	4½ / 10
6th	Vachier-Lagrave	3½ / 10

Play-offs

Quarter-finals June 25-29, 2020

Semi-finals June 30th to July 2nd, 2020

Final July 3rd to 5th, 2020

A1

Carlsen

2

B4

Caruana

0

VF1

Carlsen

2

VF2

thing

0

A3

Nakamura

1

B2

thing

2

HF1

Carlsen

2

HF2

Giri

0

A2

Artemyev

0

B3

Nepomnyashchi

2

VF3

Nepomnyashchi

1

VF4

Giri

2

A4

Grishchuk

0

B1

Giri

2

Web links

• Tournament website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chess24-Live Tournaments accessed on June 18, 2020.
2. ↑ The world's best 6 in the Chessable Masters accessed on June 16, 2020.
3. ↑ Chess24 schedule accessed on June 18, 2020 (English).