Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Final 2021

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Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Final 2021

Post by Mick Norris » Mon Sep 27, 2021 8:30 am

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The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Final takes place on Chess24 24th September to 4th October 2021.
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Ten players are participating in a round-robin that's a modified version of the regular tour events. Each round is a four-game rapid (15'+10") match, with the winner getting 3 points and the loser 0. If it's tied 2-2, then there are two 5'+3" games, and if it's still tied after that there's a 5'+0" vs. 4'+0" Armageddon game. The player who wins the playoff (if one is needed) gets 2 points for match victory, the loser 1. Thus the maximum possible score for the tournament is 27 points.

Simple enough, but recall that the results in the earlier tour events have some carryover. For every 20 points' difference in the tour standings, a player receives an extra point. So there are pre-tournament standings, which look like this:

1. Magnus Carlsen 16.5
2. Wesley So 12.5
3. Levon Aronian 8
4. Teimour Radjabov 6
5. Anish Giri 5.5
6. Hikaru Nakamura 4
7. Vladislav Artemiev 3.5
8. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2.5
9. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov .5
10. Jan-Krzysztof Duda 0

The maximum possible score is therefore not 27 (except for Duda), but as high as 43.5 points (if Carlsen runs the table).
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Re: Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Final 2021

Post by LawrenceCooper » Tue Sep 28, 2021 7:25 pm

I wonder what the Meltwater organisers think of Nakamura playing Titled Tuesday games as well as facing Wesley So today.

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Re: Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Final 2021

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Wed Sep 29, 2021 3:11 pm

Artemiev beat Carlsen yesterday, and quite handily too.
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Re: Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Final 2021

Post by LawrenceCooper » Fri Oct 01, 2021 8:25 pm

I did enjoy the randomness of Giri-Carlsen, the first game of the blitz play-off: https://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2021-ch ... sen_Magnus