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Grenke Classic Round 9 Round-up
4/29/2019 – The Grenke Chess Classic runs from April 20th to 29th. Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Levon Aronian and Viswanathan Anand head the nine round-robin. Over 60 grandmasters participate in the A-Open tournament. Live games and commentary (from 13:00 UTC / 15:00 CEST / 9:00 AM EDT) with GM Peter Leko and GM Jan Gustafsson. Official site: grenkechessclassic.com
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Final round!
Over the Easter holidays, the world of chess looks to Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden. On Saturday in the Schwarzwaldhalle ("Black Forest Hall") in Karlsruhe, the Grenke Chess Classic starts with some of the world's best chess players.
Round-up show
- Easter fun: Grenke Classic and Grenke Open
- Round 1: Carlsen wins marathon
- Round 2: Magnus grinds a second win
- Round 3: Anand escapes, Svidler and Caruana win
- Round 4: Anand joins Carlsen in the lead
- Round 5: A first win for Keymer
- Round 6: Carlsen widens the gap
- Round 7: Wins for Carlsen, Caruana and Meier
- Round 8: Carlsen mates Svidler
Previous reports
Current standings
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Live games and commentary
Players receive 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves and finally 15 minutes for the rest of the game, plus a 30-second bonus per move starting from move 1. In case of a tie for first place, a rapid play-off will be held.
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Commentary by GM Jan Gustafsson and GM Peter Leko
Results of Round 8
Round-up show
GM Daniel King's Round 8 highlights
All round-up shows via Videos.ChessBase.com
IM Sagar Shah on Svidler vs Carlsen
Players
- Magnus Carlsen, World Champion , No. 1 in the world rankings, Elo: 2845, Norway
- Fabiano Caruana, No. 2 in the world rankings, Elo: 2819, USA
- Viswanathan Anand, No. 6, Elo: 2774, India
- Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, No. 7 in the world rankings, Elo: 2773, France
- Levon Aronian, No. 10 in the world rankings, Elo: 2763, Armenia
- Peter Svidler, No. 19 in the world rankings, Elo: 2735, Russia
- Arkadij Naiditsch, No. 42 in the world rankings, Elo: 2695, Azerbaijan
- Francisco Vallejo Pons, No. 43 in the world rankings, Elo: 2693, Spain
- Georg Meier, No. 152 in the world rankings, Elo: 2628, Germany
- Vincent Keymer, No. 651 in the world rankings, Elo: 2516, Germany
Photos: GrenkeChessClassic.com
Schedule
The tournament's first five rounds will be played in Karlsruhe, and then the last four in Baden-Baden. Times shown are in CEST (14:00 UTC / 9:00 AM EDT).
| Round | Date | Time (UTC+1) | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 20th | 15:00 | Schwarzwaldhalle Karlsruhe |
| 2 | April 21st | 15:00 | |
| 3 | April 22nd | 15:00 | |
| 4 | April 23rd | 15:00 | |
| 5 | April 24th | 15:00 | |
| Rest Day | April 25th | ||
| 6 | April 26th | 15:00 | Kulturhaus LA8 Baden-Baden |
| 7 | April 27th | 15:00 | |
| 8 | April 28th | 15:00 | |
| 9 | April 29th | 15:00 |
Grenke Chess Open
The Grenke Chess Classic are embedded alongside the massive Grenke Open while in Karlsruhe. The open tournament, with several doubles rounds ends on Easter Monday (22.4). The interest in this year has been tremendous with over 2000 participants registered for one of the three tournaments. Over 60 grandmasters play in the A-Open.
Final standings after Round 9 (top 20)
Master Class Vol.8: Magnus Carlsen
Scarcely any world champion has managed to captivate chess lovers to the extent Carlsen has. The enormously talented Norwegian hasn't been systematically trained within the structures of a major chess-playing nation such as Russia, the Ukraine or China.
| Rk. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | ||
| 1 |
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GM | Fridman, Daniel | 2629 | 7,5 | 56,5 |
| 2 |
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GM | Korobov, Anton | 2675 | 7,5 | 55,5 |
| 3 |
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GM | Heimann, Andreas | 2616 | 7,5 | 55,0 |
| 4 |
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GM | Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel | 2601 | 7,5 | 54,5 |
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GM | Gukesh D | 2536 | 7,5 | 54,5 | |
| 6 |
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GM | Bluebaum, Matthias | 2610 | 7,5 | 53,5 |
| 7 |
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GM | Donchenko, Alexander | 2584 | 7,5 | 53,0 |
| 8 |
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GM | Banusz, Tamas | 2614 | 7,5 | 50,0 |
| 9 |
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GM | Sarana, Alexey | 2630 | 7,0 | 54,5 |
| 10 |
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GM | Gareyev, Timur | 2560 | 7,0 | 54,0 |
| 11 |
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GM | Chigaev, Maksim | 2634 | 7,0 | 53,0 |
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GM | Sethuraman, S.P. | 2624 | 7,0 | 53,0 | |
| 13 |
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GM | Papp, Gabor | 2598 | 7,0 | 52,5 |
| 14 |
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GM | Tabatabaei, M.amin | 2612 | 7,0 | 52,0 |
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GM | Basso, Pier Luigi | 2516 | 7,0 | 52,0 | |
| 16 |
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GM | Van Foreest, Jorden | 2598 | 7,0 | 51,5 |
| 17 |
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GM | Kuzubov, Yuriy | 2653 | 7,0 | 51,0 |
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GM | Svane, Rasmus | 2605 | 7,0 | 51,0 | |
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GM | Bernadskiy, Vitaliy | 2587 | 7,0 | 51,0 | |
| 20 |
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GM | Esipenko, Andrey | 2616 | 7,0 | 50,0 |
Full results (Chess-Results)
Results of Round 9 (top 10)
All available games
Links
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Strange how weakly MVL played today.
”He beat Vallejo in a dead drawn endgame by playing on and on and on and on.....”
A tablebase win is hardly dead drawn...
A tablebase win is hardly dead drawn...
Svidler's 27th and 28th moves against Carlsen (27 Rf2-e2 and 28 Re2-f2) are a bit embarrassing. Reminds me of my own play!
Just curious, I see TB tab in the chart and I assume that means wins with Black...right? That's a tiebreak mechanism but why is it there if there will be a rapid playoff?
Outfoxing a 2700 in a drawn position is one of the many weapons that the World Champion has at his disposal.
Carlsen just played one of the greatest games of his career. He beat Vallejo in a dead drawn endgame by playing on and on and on and on.....
The young V. Keymer will suffer a lot in such a tournament. I wonder if it was a good idea for him to participate.
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