Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour
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The Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour is a series of online rapid chess tournaments that run from April to August 2020. In addition to the reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen , who organizes the tour in cooperation with the chess platform Chess24.com and other sponsors, many other top players will take part. The tour received media attention as one of the few sporting events during the COVID-19 pandemic .
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. Then Magnus Carlsen first organized the Magnus Carlsen Invitational with the Chess24.com platform, in which he has a financial stake. This tournament was a huge success, so when it was over it served as the prelude to a full tour.
transmission
The tournaments are broadcast free of charge on the Internet at Chess24.com, among other places, and commented by grandmasters in many different languages. For Chess24.com u. a. Jan Gustafsson , Peter Svidler and Lawrence Trent in English. The Norwegian TV channel TV 2 and the Russian channel Match TV showed the Magnus Carlsen Invitational live, as did the streaming service DAZN .
Tournaments
The tour consists of four different tournaments and ends with a final tournament in August.
| competition | Period | Doping | Number of participants | winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magnus Carlsen Invitational | April 10th to May 3rd, 2020 | 250,000 dollars | 8th | Magnus Carlsen |
| Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge | May 19 to June 3, 2020 | $ 150,000 | 12 | Daniil Dubov |
| Chessable Masters | June 20 to July 5, 2020 | $ 150,000 | 12 | Magnus Carlsen |
| Legends of Chess | July 21 to August 5, 2020 | $ 150,000 | 10 | Magnus Carlsen |
| Grand Final | August 9th to August 20th, 2020 | $ 300,000 | 4th | Magnus Carlsen |
mode
The four best players in a tournament are entitled to a place in the next tournament. The field is then filled with eight more players.
The winners of the tournaments qualify for the Grand Final in August. If a player wins two or more tournaments, the free places are awarded according to a point system: 10 points for second place, 7 for reaching the semi-finals and 3 for the quarter-finals.
Tour rating
| Surname | MC Invitational | Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge | Chessable Masters | Legends of Chess | total score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magnus Carlsen | winner | 7th | winner | winner | 7th |
| Hikaru Nakamura | 10 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 23 |
| Fabiano Caruana | 7th | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Ding Liren | 7th | 7th | 7th | 0 | 21st |
| Daniil Dubov | 0 | winner | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Levon Aronjan | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Wesley So | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Yu Yangyi | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Vladislav Artemyev | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Alexander Grishchuk | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Anish Giri | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7th | 17th |
| Jan Nepomnyashchi | 0 | 0 | 7th | 10 | 17th |
| Sergei Karjakin | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Vishy Anand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vladimir Kramnik | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Peter Svidler | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7th | 7th |
| Vasyl Ivanchuk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Boris Gelfand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Peter Leko | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The players with a green background are qualified for the Grand Final .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Magnus Carlsen revolutionized the chess world in the Corona crisis. In: Welt Online . April 20, 2020, accessed April 22, 2020.
- ↑ Stefan Löffler: The world of Doctor Nykterstein breaks boundaries. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 15, 2020, accessed April 22, 2020.