Table of Contents
Time control
The time controls for for all events are:
- Rapid: 15 minutes per player, plus a 10 second increment for every move
- Blitz: 5 minutes per player, plus a 3 second increment for every move
- Armageddon: 5 minutes for White, 4 minutes for Black, no increment; Black wins the tie in case of a draw.
Scoring
Players earn 3 points for a match win in the games (the loser earns 0 points. A match win after tie-breaks earns the winner 2 points (1 point for the loser).
“In addition to these points, the players start off with bonus points based on their Tour rankings coming into the Final. The player with the fewest Tour points gets 0 bonus points, and the other players are awarded half a point for every full 10 points they have more than the player with the least number. For example, if Player A has the fewest Tour points with 86, a Player B with 143 Tour points will be awarded 2.5 points, since they exceed Player A’s total by 57 (no rounding).” (Quoted from Wikipedia)
The player with the greatest sum of bonus points and points won in the finals will be crowned the Tour Champion.
Standings at the start of the tournament
| Name | ELO | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | Bonus | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Magnus Carlsen | 2842 | – | 16½ | 16½ | |||||||||
| 02 | Wesley So | 2766 | – | 12½ | 12½ | |||||||||
| 03 | Levon Aronian | 2761 | – | 8 | 8 | |||||||||
| 04 | Teimour Radjabov | 2747 | – | 6 | 6 | |||||||||
| 05 | Anish Giri | 2712 | – | 5½ | 5½ | |||||||||
| 06 | Hikaru Nakamura | 2836 | – | 4 | 4 | |||||||||
| 07 | Vladislav Artemiev | 2755 | – | 3½ | 3½ | |||||||||
| 08 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2773 | – | 2½ | 2½ | |||||||||
| 09 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | 2727 | – | ½ | ½ | |||||||||
| 10 | Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 2801 | – | 0 | 0 |
Live games
Live commentary with David Howell, Jovanka Houska and Kaja Snare
Links
https://en.chessbase.com/post/champions-chess-tour-finals-live
