Grand Chess Tour Final 2019 Ding Liren Winner of the 2019 GCT Finals London Finals : Ding Liren – Maxime Vachier-Lagrave [Classical Play] G/2 Ding – Vachier-Lagrave 1. c4 c5 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. Nf3 e5 6. O-O Nge7 7. d3 d6 8. a3… Continue reading
GCT London Chess Classic/Rd1 The 2019 GCT Finals London: Olympia Conference Centre Fri 29th Nov to Sun 8th Dec 2019. First Classical Game started December 2. The Semi-finals feature the 4 top players from the seven regular season tour events with each match consisting of classical, rapid and blitz games. … Continue reading
GCT Tata Steel Chess India /Rapids Final: Last Day of Rapid play in The 2019 Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz Round 9 ends with Magnus Carslen in the lead. Four points behind in Second is Hikaru Nakamura. The next two days will be 18 rounds of Blitz (shorter… Continue reading
The 2019 Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz the first Grand Chess Tour event ever to be held in Asia. November 22 – 26, 2019 at the National Library of India, Kolkata, India. 10 Player Round Robin with a prize fund of 150,000.. Magnus Carlsen on top of the… Continue reading
Grand Chess Tour Romania 2019/Blitz Final: Superbet Rapid & Blitz GM Levon Aronian Blitzed his way to his 2nd 2019 GCT Title defeating Sergey Karjakin in a 2 game playoff (1.5-.5) After 3 days of Rapid play there was 2 days/18 rounds of Blitz play.. G/2 TB Aronian, Levon … Continue reading
Grand Chess Tour Romania 2019/Rapids UNDER DOG : GM Anton Korobov of Ukraine leads after three days of Rapid ..Saturday starts the Blitz Section of the tournament. Rd9 Korobov – Caruana 1/2 -1/2 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bf4 O-O… Continue reading
Grand Chess Tour Romania 2019 Superbet Rapid & Blitz November 6-10 2019 Bucharest Romania. 7 full tour participants and 3 wildcards compete over 9 rounds of rapid and 18 rounds of blitz chess for a prize fund of $150,000. Anish Giri leads the pack after Day 1 (3 Rounds) Rd… Continue reading
The Grand Chess Tour’s next event will be the 2019 Sinquefield Cup. August 15-30 Stl Mo. [Stl Chess Club] Round 1 August 17 13:00 central Start time.. Who will win? In 2018 there was a 3 Way- Tie ..Now that the tournament expanded to 11 rounds and has a larger… Continue reading
The 2019 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz will be the fourth event in the 2019 GCT schedule. August 10 – 14, 2019 Saint Louis Chess Club World Champion Magnus Carslen set to play.. Hikaru Nakamura last year’s winner will not , but will return for the Sinquefield Cup. … Continue reading
Paris Grand Chess Tour 2019 .. Third stop on the 2019 Grand Chess Tour . Date: July 27 – August 1, 2019 Location: 6 Rue de Tilsitt, 75008, Paris, France Format: 10-player Round Robin July 27-29 Rapid Play : Game in twenty-five (25) minutes, with a ten (10) second delay from move 1.… Continue reading
