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The Grand Chess Tour 2021 was a series of chess tournaments, which was sixth edition of Grand Chess Tour. It consisted five tournaments, including two tournaments with classical time control and three tournaments with faster time controls. [1] It was won by American grandmaster Wesley So. [2]
The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 was a chess tournament that formed part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2022. It was an 11-round Swiss-system tournament , with 108 players competing, running from 25 October to 8 November 2021 in Riga , Latvia , in parallel with the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 .
In February, he played in the Winter Chess Festival "Paraćin 2021" event in Paraćin, Serbia, winning both the classical and blitz sections with scores of 7/10 and 10½/11 respectively. [ 64 ] [ 65 ] [ 66 ] Then in April, Niemann was featured on the front cover of Chess Life magazine, with a cover story documenting his journey to becoming a ...
Chess World Cup 2021: Single-elimination tournament 12 Jul – 6 Aug 206 (25) Jan-Krzysztof Duda: Sergey Karjakin: Magnus Carlsen: Women's Chess World Cup 2021: Single-elimination tournament 12 Jul – 3 Aug 103 (-) Alexandra Kosteniuk: Aleksandra Goryachkina: Tan Zhongyi: World Chess Championship 2021: Best-of-14 match, with tie breaks 24 Nov ...
The 2020 Grand Chess Tour was to feature 5 tournaments, with 10 full participants and 10 wild card participants. 3 tournaments were to be rapid/blitz tournaments and 2 were to have been classical tournaments. The 10 full participants would have played in the classical events and in 2 of the 3 rapid/blitz tournaments.
The first edition in 2014 was won by Nigel Short, who finished a full point ahead of the field, scoring 7.5/9. [5] [6] In 2015, Pentala Harikrishna won on tiebreaks ahead of Laurent Fressinet and Gabriel Sargissian, all on 7/9. [7] [8] The 2016 edition featured a very strong field including Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura and ...
The tournament was structured as a series of mini-matches, consisting of four games of rapid chess, if needed followed by two rounds of blitz chess (semi-finals and final only), if needed followed by an Armageddon tie-break. The winner after rapid games received 3 points, the loser 0 points; if a tie-break was necessary, the winner received 2 ...
Mishra played in the 2021 Chess World Cup, losing 1½-½ to Baadur Jobava in the first round. [22] Mishra won the St. Louis 2022 Spring Chess Classic B with a score of 7/9 and a tournament performance rating of 2739. [23] Mishra placed second in the 2023 TePe Sigeman & Co with a score of 4.5/7 and a tournament performance rating of 2742. [24]