Côte d'Ivoire Rapid & Blitz 2019

Blitz — Day 5

From May 8th to 12th, ten participants play 9 rounds of rapid chess and 18 rounds of blitz in the "Côte d'Ivoire Rapid & Blitz 2019", one of four new tournaments to be added to the Grand Chess Tour series in 2019. The tournament was made possible by a partnership between Vivendi SA, Canal+ Group and the Pullman Abidjan Hotel. The total prize fund is USD $150,000.

The blitz is a double round-robin with nine rounds each day for two days.

• Day 1: Carlsen and Wei Yi start strong
• Day 2: Carlsen keeps up the pace
• Day 3: A three-point lead for Magnus
• Day 4: Carlsen still on top, MVL stuns
• Day 5: Magnus triumphs

Live games and commentary

Players receive 5 minutes for the entire game with a 3-second delay from move 1.

Improve your chess with Tania Sachdev

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.

GM Yannick Pelletier, IM Tania Sachdev, GM Alejandro Ramirez & GM Maurice Ashley

Current blitz standings 

All blitz games

Rapid final standings

Players receive 2 points for a win and 1 point for a draw in the rapid portion of the tournament.

All rapid games

Mating Patterns

On this DVD, Grandmaster and worldrenowned commentator Maurice Ashley reviews some of the most interesting patterns with examples meant to educate and entertain.

The players of the first leg of the GCT 2019 | Photo: Lennart Ootes / Grand Chess Tour

Players

Seven of the twelve regular tour season players plus three wildcards (Wei Yi, Bassem Amin and Vesselin Topalov) are participating.

2019 Grand Chess Tour participants

Ratings as of May 8^th, 2019

Players in bold are competing in Abidjan

Côte d'Ivoire Rapid & Blitz wildcards

*URS stands for Universal Rating System, developed and used by the Grand Chess Tour

Schedule

Endgames of the World Champions from Fischer to Carlsen

Let endgame expert Dr Karsten Müller show and explain the finesses of the world champions. Although they had different styles each and every one of them played the endgame exceptionally well, so take the opportunity to enjoy and learn from some of the best endgames in the history of chess.

From May 8th-10th, three rapid chess games will be played per day, starting at 17:00 local time (UTC) each day — 19:00, 20:30 and 22:00 (CEST) or 1PM / 2:30PM / 4PM EDT.

On May 11th and 12th, a total of 18 blitz games will be played. On both days, the rounds start at 14:00 local time (UTC), with each round starting 30 minutes after the prior round until 18:00. Should a tie-break be necessary, it starts on May 12th at 18:30 UTC.

Rapid

Blitz

Links

• Official site
• Start of the Grand Chess Tour 2019