European Club Cup - Final round: Live

by ChessBase
10/9/2022 – The European Club Cup is taking place on October 3-9 in Mayrhofen, Austria. Open and women’s tournaments take place concurrently. A number of elite players are participating, including Magnus Carlsen and Vishy Anand. The venue of the tournament is the Europahaus. | Follow the games live starting at 14.00 CEST (8.00 ET, 17.30 IST)
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Round 7

The 37th European Chess Club Cup and the 26th European Women’s Club Cup are taking place in Maryhofen. The events are 7-round Swiss tournaments with a time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes until the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. 

Magnus Carlsen will compete for his Norwegian club, Offerspill Chess Club. The Norwegian will play chess professionally in Austria for the first time as world champion. Meanwhile, former world champion Vishy Anand will play for the Romanian favourites of the CSU ASE Superbet, a team which also includes Indian prodigy D. Gukesh,

The biggest challenger to Anand’s team is the Czech squad from the club Novi Bor, which will have Austria’s number one Markus Ragger in its roster.

While the Open Tournament is played on six boards, the Women’s Tournament is played on four boards. Among the women, the favourite team, as usual, is the Cercle d’Echecs Monte Carlo with Anna Muzychuk, Zhansaya Abdumalik, Elisabeth Paehtz, Pia Cramling and Almira Skripchenko.

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Commentary by Peter Svidler, Laurent Fressinet and Lawrence Trent

The name Emanuel Lasker will always be linked with his incredible 27 years reign on the throne of world chess. In 1894, at the age of 25, he had already won the world title from Wilhelm Steinitz and his record number of years on the throne did not end till 1921 when Lasker had to accept the superiority of Jose Raul Capablanca. But not only had the only German world champion so far seen off all challengers for many years, he had also won the greatest tournaments of his age, sometimes with an enormous lead. The fascinating question is, how did he manage that?

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