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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]
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 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 .
The FIDE Grand Swiss was preceded by the Isle of Man International Chess Tournament, which was held annually from 2014 to 2018. [4] The tournament was co-organized by the English Chess Federation . It was sponsored by PokerStars until 2015, and then by Chess.com , which also sponsored the first two editions of the Grand Swiss.
In 2014–15, four top 10 players (Carlsen, Anand, Topalov and Aronian) didn't participate, with the small prize funds and organizational uncertainty being the usual reasons given. [2] [3] [4] The winner of the Grand Prix (and sometimes lower finishers) gets entry to the Candidates Tournament. The winner of the women's cycle is directly ...
The FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 was a chess tournament, FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament, that forms part of the qualification cycle for the Women's World Chess Championship 2022. It was an 11-round Swiss-system tournament , with up to 50 players competing, ran from 27 October to 7 November 2021 in Riga , Latvia , in parallel ...
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]
USCF chess grand prix tournament. At the end of the year, prizes are awarded to players with the most points. The first prize is usually $10,000. [2] These prizes provide incentives to grandmasters to play in small regional tournaments which they would otherwise avoid. The Grand Prix of chess was started in the 1980s by Church's Chicken. As a ...