Grand Chess Tour - Sinquefield Cup 2019
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Grand Chess Tour - Sinquefield Cup 2019
The Sinquefield Cup 2019 takes place in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, from Saturday 17th August until Thursday 29th August.
Round 1 17th August; Rest Day 22nd August; Round 11 28th August; Tiebreaks if required 29th August.
Play starts each day (except 22nd August) at 1900 BST.
Time Limit: All moves in 130 minutes with 30 seconds delay throughout.
Players: Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren, Anish Giri, Sergey Karjakin, Shakriyar Mamedyarov, Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.
The pairings are attached.
Round 1 17th August; Rest Day 22nd August; Round 11 28th August; Tiebreaks if required 29th August.
Play starts each day (except 22nd August) at 1900 BST.
Time Limit: All moves in 130 minutes with 30 seconds delay throughout.
Players: Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren, Anish Giri, Sergey Karjakin, Shakriyar Mamedyarov, Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.
The pairings are attached.
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Grand Chess Tour - 2019 Sinquefield Cup
First round starts tonight, coverage on Chess24 as per.
This year it's an 11 round, 12 player round Robin, with a $325,000 prize fund. Rd 1 Pairings:
Carlsen 2882 - Giri 2779
Nakamura 2743 - Caruana 2818
Ding 2805 - So 2776
Aronian 2765 - Vachier-Lagr. 2778
Nepomniachtc. 2774 - Anand 2756
Karjakin 2750 - Mamedyarov 2764
This year it's an 11 round, 12 player round Robin, with a $325,000 prize fund. Rd 1 Pairings:
Carlsen 2882 - Giri 2779
Nakamura 2743 - Caruana 2818
Ding 2805 - So 2776
Aronian 2765 - Vachier-Lagr. 2778
Nepomniachtc. 2774 - Anand 2756
Karjakin 2750 - Mamedyarov 2764
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Re: Grand Chess Tour - Sinquefield Cup 2019
All games look like they were going to be drawn then suddenly it was tragedy for Nepo on move 77, when he mistakenly thought an en passant would save him.
Nepomniachtchi, Ian - Anand, Viswanathan, Grand Chess Tour Sinquefield Cup 2019 round 01
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Sort of thing you often see the moment you take your hand off the piece.
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True, but maybe not on this occasion. The video suggests to me that Nepomniachtchi only realised when Anand played 77 … b5.JustinHorton wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 9:05 amSort of thing you often see the moment you take your hand off the piece.
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There's a suggestion on Twitter that he'd seen 77... b5, but overlooked that 78. axb6 Nxb6 was check.David Sedgwick wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 12:33 pmTrue, but maybe not on this occasion. The video suggests to me that Nepomniachtchi only realised when Anand played 77 … b5.JustinHorton wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 9:05 amSort of thing you often see the moment you take your hand off the piece.
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Had he played Kc5 then b6 could safely be met with axb6 as there is no knight check.Ian Thompson wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 1:00 pmThere's a suggestion on Twitter that he'd seen 77... b5, but overlooked that 78. axb6 Nxb6 was check.David Sedgwick wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 12:33 pmTrue, but maybe not on this occasion. The video suggests to me that Nepomniachtchi only realised when Anand played 77 … b5.JustinHorton wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 9:05 amSort of thing you often see the moment you take your hand off the piece.
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Round 2 pairings kicking off at 7pm UK time:
Karjakin (½) 2750 - Ding (½) 2805
Mamedyarov (½) 2764 - Nakamura (½) 2743
Caruana (½) 2818 - Nepomniachtc. (0) 2774
Anand (1) 2756 - Carlsen, M. (½) 2882
Giri (½) 2779 - Aronian (½) 2765
Vachier-Lagr. (½) 2778 - So (½) 2776
Karjakin (½) 2750 - Ding (½) 2805
Mamedyarov (½) 2764 - Nakamura (½) 2743
Caruana (½) 2818 - Nepomniachtc. (0) 2774
Anand (1) 2756 - Carlsen, M. (½) 2882
Giri (½) 2779 - Aronian (½) 2765
Vachier-Lagr. (½) 2778 - So (½) 2776
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Re: Grand Chess Tour - Sinquefield Cup 2019
What's the time limit? People seem to have a lot of time on their clocks.
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Re: Grand Chess Tour - Sinquefield Cup 2019
I found it in the Event Regs. All moves in 130 mins with a 30 second delay from move 1.JustinHorton wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:35 pmWhat's the time limit? People seem to have a lot of time on their clocks.
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All moves in 130 minutes with 30 seconds delay throughout.
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Thanks. 130 minutes feels like a clumsy figure for some reason.
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Re: Grand Chess Tour - Sinquefield Cup 2019
If you treat delay as increment it adds up to 2 1/2 hours for forty moves, just like the old days.JustinHorton wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:52 pmThanks. 130 minutes feels like a clumsy figure for some reason.
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David Sedgwick wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:49 pmAll moves in 130 minutes with 30 seconds delay throughout.
JustinHorton wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:52 pmThanks. 130 minutes feels like a clumsy figure for some reason.
So it does, but that wasn't the reason.NickFaulks wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 8:16 pmIf you treat delay as increment it adds up to 2 1/2 hours for forty moves, just like the old days.
The players were consulted about reducing the session length a little. They said that they would be comfortable with the Olympiad time limit, 40/90 + G/30 + 30 secs increment throughout, or something akin to it.
When the GCT Advisory Board decided that they would like to do away with the intermediate time control, I said that G/120 plus 30 secs increment would be fine, but that if they wanted delay, I would like an additional 10 minutes to compensate for the difference between delay and increment.
My view prevailed on this occasion.
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Re: Grand Chess Tour - Sinquefield Cup 2019
All draws today.Chris Rice wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 5:50 pmRound 2 pairings kicking off at 7pm UK time:
Karjakin (½) 2750 - Ding (½) 2805
Mamedyarov (½) 2764 - Nakamura (½) 2743
Caruana (½) 2818 - Nepomniachtc. (0) 2774
Anand (1) 2756 - Carlsen, M. (½) 2882
Giri (½) 2779 - Aronian (½) 2765
Vachier-Lagr. (½) 2778 - So (½) 2776