Chess World Cup 2019

The Chess World Cup 2019 is a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament to be held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from November 4 to November 30 2019.^[1] The top 2 finishers in the tournament will qualify for the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship 2020.

Bidding process

There was only one bid received for the combined FIDE World Cup and Olympiad events which was done by the Yugra Chess Federation.^[2]

Format

The tournament is a knock-out event whereby the finalists automatically qualify for the Candidates tournament with the exception of any pre-qualified participants which will result in a third place playoff or both 3rd and 4th place players qualifying to the Candidates.

Matches consist of two regular time limit games (except for the final, and playoff for third if required, which consist of four regular time limit games). For these two games, players have 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move from the start of the game.

If a match is tied after the regular games, tie breaks will be played the next day. The format for the tie breaks is as follows:

• Two rapid games (25 minutes plus 10 seconds increment).
• If the score is tied after two rapid games, further two rapid games (10 minutes plus 10 seconds increment) are played.
• If the score is tied after four rapid games, the opponents play two blitz games (five minutes plus three seconds increment).
• If the score is tied after a pair of blitz games, an armageddon game (in which a draw counts as a win for Black) is played. White has 5 minutes and Black has 4 minutes, with an increment of 3 seconds/move starting from move 61.

Schedule

Each of the first six rounds takes three days: one day each for the two regular time limit games, then a third day for tie breaks, if required. The final round has four days of regular time limit games, then a fifth day for tie breaks, if required.

• Round 1:
• Round 2:
• Round 3:
• Round 4:
• Round 5:
• Rest day:
• Round 6:
• Rest day:
• Final (and play-off for third place if required):

Prize money

According to the regulations, all players have to pay their own expenses for travel, and 20% of each player's prize money goes to FIDE.

Qualifiers

The list of qualifiers, in order of priority,^[3] is as follows. The participants will be seeded by their FIDE rating of October 2019. All players are grandmasters unless indicated otherwise.

Why are there 2 identically seeded players?

Results, rounds 1–4

Results, rounds 5–7

References

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