Sinquefield Cup 2014

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The 2014 Sinquefield Cup was a chess tournament held from August 27 to September 7, 2014 at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center, now the Saint Louis Chess Club, in St. Louis , Missouri . The tournament was named after its patron , the American multimillionaire Rex Sinquefield (* 1944) and his wife Jeanne. A double round-robin tournament was played with a classic time limit (40 moves in 90 minutes, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, plus 30 seconds per move) with a total of ten games for each participant. The prize fund was 315,000 US dollars , of which the winner of the tournament was 100,000.

Participants and skill level

All six participants were among the ten highest chess players of FIDE - Elo 's rating list at the time of the tournament start. According to this FIDE ranking, they occupied places 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 9 on the list. The tournament had an average rating of 2801.7 and thus corresponded to tournament category 23. It is worth mentioning that neither Russian players nor the former world champion Viswanathan Anand took part. The tournament was advertised by the organizer as the strongest tournament in chess history . This statement, which applies to the Elo average, is not without controversy, as Tim Krabbé considers the 1938 AVRO tournament to be stronger.

sensation

Fabiano Caruana , who started for Italy at the time, caused a sensation, winning all the games in this tournament in the first seven rounds, including against world champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway. In the eighth round, Caruana played a draw against Carlsen and thus secured the tournament victory early. With an Elo performance of 3103, Caruana, who was looked after by Vladimir Chuchelov as a second , won 35 Elo points in the tournament.

Results table

player Elo rating 01 02 03 04 05 06 01 02 03 04 05 06 Points direct comparison
1 Fabiano Caruana (Italy) 2801 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 8½
2 Magnus Carlsen (Norway) 2877 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 5½
3 Wesselin Topalow (Bulgaria) 2772 0 ½ 1 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 5
4th Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) 2768 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 4th 1½
5 Levon Aronjan (Armenia) 2804 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 4th ½
6th Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 2787 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 3

In the event of a tie, the direct comparison decided the placement. Had this not brought a decision, the number of winning games would have been used as the next criterion, in the event of another tie the Sonneborn-Berger rating , the last rating criterion would have been the Koya system . Notwithstanding this, in the event of a tie in first place, a rapid chess tie-off would have been played.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rules & Regulations: 2014 Sinquefield Cup. Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, accessed September 4, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b The 2014 Sinquefield Cup. Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Top 100 Players August 2014 - Archives. Fide, accessed September 4, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Tim Krabbé: 395. August 28, 2014: Dear Sinquefield Cup. In: Open Chess Diary. August 28, 2014, accessed September 3, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Johannes Fischer: Sinquefield Cup: Three draws at the end. In: Chess News. chessbase, September 7, 2014, accessed September 8, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Mike Klein: Caruana Completes Unbeaten Sinquefield, Carlsen Second. Chess.com, September 6, 2014, accessed September 8, 2014 .