Julius Baer Generation Cup - Games and brackets

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9/3/2023 – The Julius Baer Generation Cup was the fifth event of the 2023 Champions Chess Tour. The tournament, which took place from August 30 to September 3, featured three divisions, each a double-elimination knockout, where if you lose one match you drop to a lower bracket and can still win the tournament. | Replay the games and find brackets for each of the three divisions.

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Games and brackets

The Julius Baer Generation Cup is the fifth event of the Champions Chess Tour. Following a play-in phase, a total of 56 players are participating in the knockout stage from August 30 to September 3.

  • 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 and more info about the format below the video feed.

Games - Video webcasts

Division I

Commentary provided by Tania Sachdev, David Howell, Simon Williams and Jovanka Houska

Game analyses by Robert Ris

Division II

Division III

Brackets

Division I

Division II

Division III

Format

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.

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. 

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