Grand Prix Hamburg: Duda vs Grischuk in the final

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11/13/2019 – Jan-Krzysztof Duda will face Alexander Grischuk in the final (report on Game 2) after Duda defeated Daniil Dubov in a rapid and blitz tiebreak. The final commences on Thursday in Hamburg. Sixteen players began the tournament competing for Grand Prix points in the penultimate event of the series from November 5th to November 17th, in Germany's Hanseatic metropolis. Live games and commentary from 14:00 UTC (15:00 CET, 9:00 AM EST). | Pictured: Dubov during his tiebreak match with Svidler. | Photo: Valeria Gordienko

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Semi-final, Tiebreak

The Hamburg Grand Prix is a knock-out tournament with 16 players. To win a Grand Prix, a player has to defeat opponents in four rounds. Each round consists of two classical games and is followed by faster tie-break games if necessary. Top Grandmasters from nine countries take part in the FIDE World Chess Grand Prix Hamburg 2019. This is the strongest Grand Prix Series in recent history.

Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, plus 30-seconds per move starting from move 1. If the match is tied after two classical games. A tiebreak will follow on the third day: Two 25+10, then two 10+10 games, then two 5+3, and if still tied a single Armageddon game where White has 5 minutes to Black’s 4 (with a 2-second bonus per move starting from move 61) but Black has draw odds.

Live games and commentary

 

Commentary by GM Evgeny Miroshnichenko

All match results

 

The venue is Theater Kehrwieder, part of the historic Harbour City district

There are a limited number of spectator seats (tickets via Eventim), which will increase up to 100 as the tournament progresses, as the stage shrinks and shrinks with the number of participants declining after each knockout round.

The Grand Prix is a four-leg series taking place over the course of the year. The first two legs took place in Moscow, Russia and Riga, Latvia. It will be followed by Hamburg, Germany and Jerusalem, Israel. The prize fund of each Grand Prix is 130,000 euros, with an additional 280,000 euros for the overall standings. The top two finishers will also earn the main prize — qualification to the Candidates Tournament where they will contest the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen in the World Championship match.

Participants in the FIDE World Chess Grand Prix Hamburg (in bold)

#
Name
Country
Elo
 1
 Anish Giri Netherlands 2780
 2
 Ian Nepomniachtchi Russia 2776
 3
 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave France 2774
 4
 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Azerbaijan 2767
 5
 Wesley So USA 2767
 6
 Yu Yangyi China 2763
 7
 Sergey Karjakin Russia 2760
 8
 Alexander Grischuk Russia 2759
 9
 Levon Aronian Armenia 2758
10
 Teimour Radjabov Azerbaijan 2758
11
 Pentala Harikrishna India 2746
12
 Hikaru Nakamura USA 2745
13
 Radoslav Wojtaszek Poland 2739
14
 Wei Yi China 2736
15
 Veselin Topalov Bulgaria 2736
16
 Nikita Vitiugov Russia 2732
17
 Jan-Krzysztof Duda Poland 2730
18
 Peter Svidler Russia 2729
19
 David Navara Czech Republic 2724
20
 Daniil Dubov Russia 2699
21
 Dmitry Jakovenko Russia 2681

Players whose names are struck have been knockout out

Schedule

Nov. 5–7 Round 1 + Tie-breaks
Nov. 8–10 Round 2 + Tie-breaks
Nov. 11-13 Semi-final + Tie-breaks
Nov. 14 Rest day
Nov. 15-17 Final + Tie-breaks

The rounds start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 CET). Chess fans will be able to enter the playing venue starting at 14:00 Hamburg time. There will be on-site commentary. The games will be broadcast live at worldchess.com, the official FIDE broadcasting platform.

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Current standings

Standings

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Hamburg GP: Grischuk scores crucial win

11/13/2019 – Alexander Grischuk knocked Maxime Vachier-Lagrave out of the Grand Prix in Hamburg by beating him in the second classical game of the semi-finals. Grischuk thus massively increased his chances to reach the 2020 Candidates Tournament through the series. Meanwhile, Daniil Dubov got a slight edge against Jan-Krzysztof Duda, but could not make much of it — their semi-final match-up will be decided in tiebreaks. | Photo: Valeria Gordienko
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Hamburg GP: Equality

11/12/2019 – The first classical games of the semi-finals at the FIDE Grand Prix in Hamburg ended in draws. Both games went into theoretical lines that led to draws in less than thirty moves. In Tuesday's rematch games, Alexander Grischuk and Daniil Dubov will have the white pieces against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Jan-Krzysztof Duda, respectively. | Photo: Valeria Gordienko

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