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Scheduled for May 9-21, the field of participants so far announced had GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Ding Liren, Levon Aronian, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Wesley So, Alireza Firouzja, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Aryan Tari.

"We were prepared to organize the tournament in May as we managed to organize the tournament in October 2020 in the middle of the pandemic," said project manager Benedicte Westre Skog. "However, with closed borders in Norway and several other countries, it becomes impossible to plan and go through with the event in May."

The field might look a little different, but several have already confirmed plans to participate in September, including Carlsen.

As in the last edition an Armageddon game will be played if the main classical game is drawn. Players: Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Richard Rapport, Sergey Karjakin, Alireza Firouzja and Aryan Tari. The event is a 6 player 10 round event. It gets off to a rather untidy start as the round 1 game Nepomniachtchi vs Karjakin is postponed until the first rest day on Saturday 11th.

Paolo Casaschi wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 09, 2021 5:10 pm

Does anyone understand the standings numbers, particularly in the scores, the second number.

• Karjakin (3.5 total) - 3 points if he'd won the Round 2 Classical game plus 0.5 points if he'd won the Round 2 Armageddon game; nothing for Round 1 as not yet played; nothing for Round 3 as not yet finished
• Rapport (9.5 total) - 3 points from the Round 1 Classical game, 0 points from the Round 1 Armageddon game because it wasn't played; 3.5 points from the Round 2 Classical and Armageddon games combined; 3 points from the Round 3 Classical game, 0 points from the Round 3 Armageddon game because it hasn't been played yet