Grand Final
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The Grand Final is an online rapid chess tournament that ran from August 9th to August 20th, 2020. It was the final tournament of 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 , Daniil Dubov , who won the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge , as well as Ding Liren and Hikaru Nakamura qualified for the tournament as the best on points. In an extremely even final against Nakamura, Carlsen won the decisive seventh set in Armageddon .
background
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , sports operations worldwide 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 will be broadcast free of charge on the internet at Chess24.com and commented on in 10 languages.
mode
Prize money of $ 300,000 is awarded for the tournament, of which the winner receives $ 140,000. Draw offers before move 40 are not permitted, this does not apply to any Armageddon games . The tournament begins with the semi-finals (August 9th to August 13th) and then ends with the final of the two semi-final winners (August 14th to August 20th). An encounter consists of several sets of four rapid games each. If the score is 2: 2 after four games, two blitz games with a time limit of 5 minutes plus 3 seconds per move are played. If it is still the same after the blitz games, there is an Armageddon game in which White has 5 minutes and Black has 4 minutes to think about it and a draw counts as a victory for Black.
The semi-finals are won by whoever wins three sets ( best-of-five ) first, in the final four sets (best-of-seven) must be won to win the tournament. The time to think about is 15 minutes plus 10 seconds per move from the first move.
Attendees
The field consists of the winners of the qualifying tournaments and the players with the highest points.
| No. | Surname |
Rapid chess rating (August 2020) |
World Ranking Rapid Chess (August 2020) |
Elo rating Blitz (August 2020) |
World Ranking Blitz (August 2020) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Magnus Carlsen
|
2881 | 1 | 2886 | 2 |
| 2 |
 Ding Liren
|
2836 | 3 | 2788 | 8th |
| 3 |
 Hikaru Nakamura
|
2829 | 4th | 2900 | 1 |
| 4th |
 Daniil Dubov
|
2770 | 12 | 2722 | 34 |
Results
| Semi-finals August 9 to August 13, 2020 | Final August 14th to August 20th, 2020 | |||||||
| 1 | Carlsen | 3 | ||||||
| 2 | thing | 1 | ||||||
| HF1 | Carlsen | 4th | ||||||
| HF2 | Nakamura | 3 | ||||||
| 3 | Dubov | 0 | ||||||
| 4th | Nakamura | 3 | ||||||
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chess24 Live Tournaments. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
- ↑ Magnus Carlsen Tour Finals - Regulations. In: Chess24.com. Retrieved August 7, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Tour. In: Chess24.com. Retrieved August 7, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Rapid Chess Ratings. In: 2700chess.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Blitz Chess Ratings. In: 2700chess.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .