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Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2021, 13-24 March
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 8:39 am
by Mick Norris
TWIC
The format has been tweaked for this major, the field has been increased from 12 to 16, in the first major 8 of the 12 players made it through to the second phase and this lead to a lot of caution being rewarded. Players: Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Wesley So, Teimour Radjabov, Alireza Firouzja, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura, Daniil Dubov, Jorden van Foreest, David Anton plus two of these four: Nils Grandelius, Max Warmerdam, Alan Pichot and Aryan Tari who play in a qualifier.
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Re: Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2021, 13-24 March
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 5:30 am
by MJMcCready
Looking forwards to it but isn't the candidates supposed to start soon?
Re: Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2021, 13-24 March
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 7:23 am
by Mick Norris
19 April
Re: Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2021, 13-24 March
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 9:13 am
by Mick Norris
Grandelius and Pichot qualified
TWIC
day 1 report
Rounds 6-10 on Sunday 14th March starting at 4pm.
1st Giri 4pts, 2nd-3rd Carlsen, Aronian 3.5pts, 4th-8th Mamedyarov, MVL, Radjabov, Dubov, Nakamura 3pts, 9th-10th So, Firouzja 2.5pts 11th Van Foreest 2pts, 12th-15th Nepomniachtchi, Anton Guijarro, Grandelius, Karjakin 1.5pts, 16th Pichot 1pt
Re: Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2021, 13-24 March
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 1:56 pm
by LawrenceCooper
Re: Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2021, 13-24 March
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 2:02 pm
by Mick Norris
TWIC
day 2 report
The final day should be very exciting with only 8 of the 16 players going through to the KO stage. It looks to me that 7 players are chasing just 4 places if we take it the top 4 in the standings are pretty much there.
Round 10 Standings: 1st Giri 8pts, 2nd Carlsen 7.5pts, 3rd-4th So, Nakamura 6.5pts, 5th-6th Firouzja, MVL 6pts, 7th-9th Aronian, Dubov, Karjakin 5pts, 10th-11th Nepomniachtchi, Radjabov 4.5pts, 12th-13th Mamedyarov, Grandelius 4pts, 14th Van Foreest 3pts, 15th Anton Guijarro 2.5pts, 16th Pichot 2pts.
Final day starts at 4pm GMT Monday 15th March.
Pete Doggers
round 1 and
round 2
Re: Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2021, 13-24 March
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:52 am
by Mick Norris
TWIC
day 3 report
Carlsen, Magnus vs Nakamura, Hikaru
The knockout starts at 4pm on Tuesday 16th March. Round 1: Carlsen-Aronian, Nepomniachtchi-Nakamura, So-Firouzja and MVL-Giri.
Pete Doggers
Re: Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2021, 13-24 March
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:52 am
by LawrenceCooper
Carlsen-Aronian.
MVL-Giri.
So-Firouzja.
Nepomniachtchi-Nakamura.
Re: Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2021, 13-24 March
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:28 am
by Mick Norris
TWIC
day 4 report
Carlsen and So lead their Carlsen Invitational Quarterfinals after day 1
Resumes 4pm GMT
Re: Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2021, 13-24 March
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 7:59 am
by Mick Norris
TWIC
Day 5 report
Nakamura, Hikaru vs Nepomniachtchi, Ian
Semifinal pairings Thursday 18th March 4pm GMT: Magnus Carlsen vs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Wesley So vs Anish Giri.
Re: Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2021, 13-24 March
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:47 am
by Mick Norris
Pete Doggers reports on quarter finals
day 1 and
day 2
Re: Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2021, 13-24 March
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:19 pm
by Mick Norris
Nepo and Giri win on day 1 of the semifinals
Re: Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2021, 13-24 March
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2021 9:47 am
by LawrenceCooper
Mick Norris wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:19 pm
Nepo and Giri win on day 1 of the semifinals
That'll teach me to make a comment about the inevitable Carlsen-So final during game 3
Re: Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2021, 13-24 March
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2021 1:28 pm
by Mick Norris
Re: Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2021, 13-24 March
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2021 6:41 pm
by JustinHorton
Nepo seems to have missed a couple of reasonably straightforward chances to put Carlsen out in game three