5/26/2023 – On the last day of the ChessKid Cup Fabiano Caruana and Nodirbek Abdusattorov will meet in the Grand Final. If Abdusattorov wins the match, he will also win the ChessKid Cup as the winner of the Winner's Bracket. If Caruana wins, there will be a second match to decide the winner of the tournament.| Follow the games live with expert commentary starting at 17.00 CEST (11.00 EDT, 20.30 IST)
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Day 5
The ChessKid Cup is the third event of the Champions Chess Tour. Following a play-in phase, a total of 56 players are participating in the knockout stage on May 22-26.
Division I: 8 players
Division II: 16 players
Division III: 32 players
Each division has separate prize funds, with players also winning Tour Points according to the division they played in and their placement. By the end of the tour’s sixth event, the players with the most Tour Points get a spot in the CCT Playoff.
Follow the commentary webcast provided by the official organizers. Find the knockout brackets andmore info about the format below the video feed.
On this DVD, well-known Indian WGM Tania Sachdev shows you how to evaluate certain positions and then find the right concepts and plans on the basis of her own games.
Commentary by David Howell, Tania Sachdev, Daniel Naroditsky and James Canty III
The ChessKid Cup has a Play-in stage, open to all grandmasters, and a Knockout stage featuring three divisions. Each division has separate prize funds, with players also winning Tour Points according to the division they played in and their placement. By the end of the tour’s sixth event, the players with the most Tour Points get a spot in the CCT Playoff.
Let our authors show you how Carlsen tailored his openings to be able to outplay his opponents strategically in the middlegame or to obtain an enduring advantage into the endgame.
Knockout
The Knockout stage features 56 players playing across three different divisions based on their Match Play results:
Division I: 8 players.
Top-3 players from previous Event Division I
Winner of previous Event’s Division II
The 4 winners of the matches between the top-8 players from the Play-in Swiss
Division II: 16 players.
1st-8th from Swiss play matches; losers get in
9th-32nd from Swiss play matches; winners get in
Division III: 32 players.
9th-32nd from Swiss play matches; losers get in
33rd-72nd from Swiss play matches; winners get in
Each division has prize money and Tour Points on the line.
The Knockout stage has the following format:
Each division features a double-elimination knockout bracket.
The time control is 15+3.
Divisions I and II feature four-game matches in the Winners Bracket and two-game matches in the Losers Bracket.
Division III features two-game matches in both the Winners and Losers Brackets and a four-game match in the Grand Finals.
If there’s a Grand Finals reset (player coming out of the Losers Bracket wins the first set), the second set features a two-game match.
A bidding Armageddon game with a 15-minute base time breaks ties.
This video course provides a comprehensive and practical White repertoire in the Ruy Lopez! Through instructive model games and in-depth theoretical explanations, you will learn how to confidently handle both main lines and sidelines.
Chess Festival Prague 2025 with analyses by Aravindh, Giri, Gurel, Navara and others. ‘Special’: 27 highly entertaining miniatures. Opening videos by Werle, King and Ris. 10 opening articles with new repertoire ideas and much more.
Experts examine the games of Max Euwe. Let them show you which openings Euwe chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were, which tactical abilities he had or how he outplayed his opponents in the endgame.
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The course is designed to provide a deep yet practical repertoire for Black, balancing solid foundations with aggressive counterplay.
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