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All games start at 1:30 p.m. local time = 2:30 p.m. in Europe (CEST), one later in Moscow. You can find the starting time at your location here. Watch it live on our news page:
When the games are running, clicking on the above link will take you to our live broadcast. It is free and open to all – as a Premium Account member you have access to the Live Book, Chat, chess engine analysis. Everything runs in your browser, on a notebook, tablet or even your smartphone. And the Let's Check function will show you what the most powerful computers in the world think of the current position, as each move is being played.
In the live broadcast below, on the side of each board is an evaluation meter, showing you which side is better. The small "x" button on the top right of each board will remove it from the broadcast. If you remove two games you will have four larger boards. Removing four will give you two even larger boards, and removing five will give you just one very large board. Refresh the page (Ctrl-R) to return to the six most popular boards.
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You can also click the "+" and "–" icons at the bottom right of the broadcast window to increase and decrease the number of boards. There are other functions: you can download PGNs of the running games and even start an engine by clicking the robot button (third from left). Note that you can view moves and statistics in the opening (with the Live Book switched on) and even analyse on the boards while the games are being broadcast, by moving pieces and using the engine – best in multiple line mode. Is there a better way to follow the games? |
| Bo. | No. | Ti. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Res. | Pts. | Ti. | Name | Rtg | No. |
| 1 | 35 | GM | Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan | 2536 | 1 | 1 | GM | Caruana Fabiano | 2813 | 1 | |
| 2 | 2 | GM | So Wesley | 2794 | 1 | 1 | GM | Harika Dronavalli | 2528 | 36 | |
| 3 | 37 | GM | Vishnu Prasanna. V | 2522 | 1 | 1 | GM | Nakamura Hikaru | 2787 | 3 | |
| 4 | 4 | GM | Adams Michael | 2745 | 1 | 1 | GM | Schroeder Jan-Christian | 2514 | 38 | |
| 5 | 41 | GM | Khmelniker Ilya | 2493 | 1 | 1 | GM | Eljanov Pavel | 2741 | 5 | |
| 6 | 8 | GM | Rodshtein Maxim | 2687 | 1 | 1 | GM | Hillarp Persson Tiger | 2513 | 39 | |
| 7 | 45 | IM | Puranik Abhimanyu | 2471 | 1 | 1 | GM | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | 2686 | 9 | |
| 8 | 10 | GM | Naiditsch Arkadij | 2684 | 1 | 1 | IM | Zumsande Martin | 2490 | 42 | |
| 9 | 47 | IM | Trent Lawrence | 2463 | 1 | 1 | GM | Shirov Alexei | 2679 | 11 | |
| 10 | 12 | GM | Movsesian Sergei | 2677 | 1 | 1 | IM | Batsiashvili Nino | 2480 | 44 | |
| 11 | 49 | IM | Paehtz Elisabeth | 2459 | 1 | 1 | GM | Fressinet Laurent | 2676 | 13 | |
| 12 | 14 | GM | Sargissian Gabriel | 2670 | 1 | 1 | GM | Illingworth Max | 2465 | 46 | |
| 13 | 51 | GM | Romanishin Oleg M | 2456 | 1 | 1 | GM | Melkumyan Hrant | 2653 | 15 | |
| 14 | 54 | IM | Praggnanandhaa R | 2442 | 1 | 1 | GM | Hou Yifan | 2649 | 17 | |
| 15 | 18 | GM | Granda Zuniga Julio E | 2648 | 1 | 1 | IM | Lou Yiping | 2458 | 50 | |
| 16 | 56 | IM | Daulyte Deimante | 2429 | 1 | 1 | GM | Meier Georg | 2648 | 19 | |
| 17 | 20 | GM | Bachmann Axel | 2645 | 1 | 1 | IM | Kiewra Keaton F | 2454 | 53 | |
| 18 | 58 | IM | Alvarado Diaz Alejandro | 2425 | 1 | 1 | GM | Howell David W L | 2644 | 21 | |
| 19 | 22 | GM | Grandelius Nils | 2642 | 1 | 1 | GM | Sundararajan Kidambi | 2429 | 55 | |
| 20 | 60 | IM | Karavade Eesha | 2421 | 1 | 1 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | 2626 | 23 | |
| 21 | 24 | GM | Van Foreest Jorden | 2615 | 1 | 1 | IM | Basso Pier Luigi | 2428 | 57 | |
| 22 | 62 | IM | Tania Sachdev | 2414 | 1 | 1 | GM | L'ami Erwin | 2605 | 25 | |
| 23 | 26 | GM | Bok Benjamin | 2594 | 1 | 1 | IM | Gaponenko Inna | 2421 | 59 | |
| 24 | 64 | IM | Das Arghyadip | 2400 | 1 | 1 | GM | Lenderman Aleksandr | 2593 | 27 | |
| 25 | 28 | GM | Lalith Babu M R | 2586 | 1 | 1 | WIM | Shvayger Yuliya | 2405 | 63 |
Top seed Fabiano Caruana, USA, rated 2813
Second seed: Wesley So, USA, 2794 [photo by Mike Klein]
Third seed Hikaru Nakamura, USA, 2787, during round one
Fifth seed: Pavel Eljanov, UKR, rated 2741
17th seed: GM Hou Yifan, Women's World Champion, rated 2649
IM Elisabeth Paehtz of Germany, 2459, who is stronger than her father, GM Thomas Paehtz, 2356
Indian IM Eesha Karavade, rated 2421
GM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant, Scotland, rated 2376
An unidentified player, captured by Lennart with his wonderfully professional equipment*
* Our sometimes contributor Nisha Mohota – read her very poignant recent report on pain and pleasure in chess on ChessBase India – wrote us: "The unidentified player happens to be my sister, WFM Swati Mohota."
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