Magnus Carlsen Invitational
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The Magnus Carlsen Invitational was an online rapid chess tournament that ran from April 18 to May 3, 2020. In addition to the reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen , who organized the tournament in cooperation with the chess platform Chess24.com , seven other top players took part. The tournament received media attention as one of the few sporting events during the COVID-19 pandemic . Carlsen won the tournament, defeating Hikaru Nakamura in the final . The tournament served as the start of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour .
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. Then Magnus Carlsen organized an invitation tournament with the platform Chess24.com , in which he has a financial stake.
transmission
The tournament was broadcast free of charge on Chess24.com and the grandmasters commented on it in nine different languages. For Chess24.com u. a. Jan Gustafsson , Pjotr Swidler 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 .
mode
For the tournament prize money of 250,000 of Chess24.com was dollars awarded 70,000 dollars of which was the winner. The thinking time was 15 minutes plus 10 seconds per move. Draw offers before move 40 were not allowed. The tournament was initially held in the preliminary round (April 18 to April 30) as a round-robin tournament, each playing four games against each other. The winner of a four-game duel received three points, the loser no point. In the event of a tie, an Armageddon game was played. The winner of this game got two points, the loser one point. Two encounters were held per day, on the last day all four encounters take place in parallel.
After the preliminary round, the best four players qualified for the knockout round. The best player in the preliminary round met the fourth-placed player in the semi-finals (May 1 and May 2), while the second competed against the third. Again four games were played per encounter. If there was a tie, a tie-break in blitz chess followed . Two games were played with five minutes to think about and a three second surcharge per move. In the event of a tie, two more blitz games will be scheduled. If no decision had been made after that, an Armageddon game would have been played. The winners of the semi-finals played the overall winner in the same mode on May 3rd.
Attendees
| No. | Surname |
Rapid chess rating (April 2020) |
World Ranking Rapid Chess (April 2020) |
Elo rating blitz chess (April 2020) |
World ranking blitz chess (April 2020) |
Elo Classic (April 2020) |
World Ranking Classic (April 2020) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magnus Carlsen | 2881 | 1 | 2887 | 2 | 2863 | 1 |
| 2 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2860 | 2 | 2822 | 3 | 2778 | 5 |
| 3 | Ding Liren | 2836 | 3 | 2788 | 8th | 2791 | 3 |
| 4th | Hikaru Nakamura | 2829 | 4th | 2900 | 1 | 2736 | 18th |
| 5 | Jan Nepomnyashchi | 2778 | 9 | 2785 | 9 | 2784 | 4th |
| 6th | Fabiano Caruana | 2773 | 11 | 2711 | 35 | 2835 | 2 |
| 7th | Anish Giri | 2731 | 24 | 2752 | 22nd | 2764 | 10 |
| 8th | Alireza Firouzja | 2703 | 37 | 2750 | 24 | 2728 | 21st |
Results
Preliminary round
| April 18 | |||
| Magnus Carlsen | - | Hikaru Nakamura | 3: 2 |
| Ding Liren | - | Alireza Firouzja | 2.5: 1.5 |
| April 19th | |||
| Fabiano Caruana | - | Jan Nepomnyashchi | 2.5: 1.5 |
| Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | - | Anish Giri | 3: 1 |
| 20th of April | |||
| Magnus Carlsen | - | Alireza Firouzja | 2.5: 1.5 |
| Hikaru Nakamura | - | Anish Giri | 2.5: 1.5 |
| April 21 | |||
| Jan Nepomnyashchi | - | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 3: 2 |
| Fabiano Caruana | - | Ding Liren | 3: 2 |
| April 22 | |||
| Magnus Carlsen | - | Fabiano Caruana | 3: 1 |
| Hikaru Nakamura | - | Alireza Firouzja | 3.5: 0.5 |
| April 23 | |||
| Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | - | Ding Liren | 2: 3 |
| Anish Giri | - | Jan Nepomnyashchi | 1.5: 2.5 |
| April 24th | |||
| Magnus Carlsen | - | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2.5: 1.5 |
| Alireza Firouzja | - | Fabiano Caruana | 1: 3 |
| April 25 | |||
| Hikaru Nakamura | - | Jan Nepomnyashchi | 2.5: 1.5 |
| Ding Liren | - | Anish Giri | 3: 2 |
| 26th of April | |||
| Anish Giri | - | Magnus Carlsen | 2.5: 1.5 |
| Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | - | Alireza Firouzja | 1.5: 2.5 |
| April 27 | |||
| Fabiano Caruana | - | Hikaru Nakamura | 3: 2 |
| Jan Nepomnyashchi | - | Ding Liren | 1.5: 2.5 |
| April 28 | |||
| Magnus Carlsen | - | Jan Nepomnyashchi | 3: 2 |
| Alireza Firouzja | - | Anish Giri | 2.5: 1.5 |
| April 29 | |||
| Hikaru Nakamura | - | Ding Liren | 3: 2 |
| Fabiano Caruana | - | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2.5: 1.5 |
| April, 30th | |||
| Ding Liren | - | Magnus Carlsen | 3: 1 |
| Jan Nepomnyashchi | - | Alireza Firouzja | 3: 2 |
| Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | - | Hikaru Nakamura | 2: 3 |
| Anish Giri | - | Fabiano Caruana | 2.5: 1.5 |
table
| Pl. | player | Sp. | S. | AS | ON | N | Points | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Hikaru Nakamura | 7th | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 15th | 16.5 |
| 2. | Ding Liren | 7th | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 15th | 16 |
| 3. | Magnus Carlsen | 7th | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 14.5 |
| 4th | Fabiano Caruana | 7th | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 14.5 |
| 5. | Jan Nepomnyashchi | 7th | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8th | 13 |
| 6th | Alireza Firouzja | 7th | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4th | 7th | 11.5 |
| 7th | Anish Giri | 7th | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4th | 7th | 12.5 |
| 8th. | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 7th | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6th | 13.5 |
Play-offs
| Semi-finals May 1st and 2nd, 2020 | Final May 3, 2020 | |||||||
| 1 | Hikaru Nakamura | 4th | ||||||
| 4th | Fabiano Caruana | 2 | ||||||
| HF1 | Hikaru Nakamura | 1.5 | ||||||
| HF2 | Magnus Carlsen | 2.5 | ||||||
| 2 | Ding Liren | 1.5 | ||||||
| 3 | Magnus Carlsen | 2.5 | ||||||
Web links
- Tournament website (English)
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.
- ^ André Schulz : Carlsen Invitational: The boss strikes back. In: de.chessbase.com. April 21, 2020, accessed April 22, 2020.
- ^ Website of the Magnus Carlsen Invitational , accessed on April 22, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Magnus Carlsen Invitational: Day 5 LIVE. In: en.chessbase.com . April 22, 2020, April 22, 2020 (English).