CrunchLabs Masters Play-In: Nepo, Antipov and Nakamura score 7/9

Kramnik among qualified players to Division I

The third event in this year's Champions Chess Tour is the CrunchLab Masters. The 8-day online tournament kicked off with the Play-In stage, a 9-round Swiss open which featured 118 participants, all GMs or IMs. The top 11 scorers qualified to the Division I Placement stage, set to take place on Thursday.

Out of the 11 qualified players, only Ian Nepomniachtchi, who won the tournament on tiebreak criteria, will skip round 1 in the Placement stage. Nepo will be 1 of 5 players who will get that benefit, together with Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Wesley So, Grigoriy Oparin, and Dmitry Andreikin, who gained that right thanks to their strong showings at the Chess.com Classic.

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This DVD allows you to learn from the example of one of the best players in the history of chess and from the explanations of the authors (Pelletier, Marin, Müller and Reeh) how to successfully organise your games strategically, consequently how to keep y

In the Swiss open, Nepo collected as many points as Hikaru Nakamura and Mikhail Antipov, with all three obtaining 7/9 scores. Out of the three, only Antipov ended the event with a victory in round 9, as he got the better of Arjun Erigaisi with the black pieces.

The remaining 8 qualifiers are Fabiano Caruana, Frederik Svane, Maxim Matlakov, Alexander Grischuk, Vladimir Fedoseev, Vladimir Kramnik, Jules Moussard and Levon Aronian.

Former world champion Kramnik has been using his X account to share statistical analyses (often disavowed by other users) about what he considers to be results that should generate serious suspicions of cheating - notably, his main concern is related to online events with prize funds such as this one.

Nepomniachtchi 1 - 0 Bok

A total of 46 players qualified either to the Placement stage in Division II or Division III, with the likes of Vidit Gujrathi, Bogdan-Daniel Deac and Daniil Dubov failing to make it to the top division in this particular event.

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Links

• Official website
• Four ‘regular’ events and a grand finale in this year’s Champions Chess Tour
• Carlsen beats resilient Firouzja, wins Chessable Masters
• Firouzja takes down Carlsen to win Chess.com Classic