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Ten players will compete in the “Legends of Chess” tournament. Four of them qualified by reaching the semifinals of the Chessable Masters — Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Anish Giri — and the remaining six were invited to participate — Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, Boris Gelfand, Peter Leko, Peter Svidler and Vassily Ivanchuk, all world champions, runners-up for the title or absolute top players at some point in time.
Master Class Vol.11: Vladimir Kramnik
This DVD allows you to learn from the example of one of the best players in the history of chess and from the explanations of the authors (Pelletier, Marin, Müller and Reeh) how to successfully organise your games strategically, consequently how to keep y
Five of these six players are still active, while Kramnik has retired from classical chess.
At 40, Peter Leko is the youngest of the legends, while Boris Gelfand is the oldest at 52. Both players have fought for the World Championship title before, but were defeated by Vladimir Kramnik (Leko, 2004) and Viswanthan Anand (Gelfand, 2012) respectively. Currently, both of them are passing on their knowledge as trainers for the German team, directly or indirectly. Leko is Vincent Keymer’s coach while Gelfand gives training lessons to the German squad.
[Pictured: Kramnik and Leko at the 2004 World Championship match.]
The “chess24 Legends of Chess” online tournament kicks off with a preliminary round, a single round-robin of rapid chess played over nine days. Each matchup consists of four games with a time control of 15 minutes plus increments of 10 seconds. If the final score is 2:2, the winner is decided in Armageddon (White has an extra minute but is obliged to win). A victory, without Armageddon, grants three points, while winning in Armageddon grants two points to the winner and one point to the loser.
The four top scorers of the preliminaries qualify for the knockout round. In the semifinals and final, the same format will be in place, except that instead of going immediately to Armageddon in case of a tie, a pair of blitz games will be the first tiebreaker.
The action starts at 16:00 CEST both in the prelims and the knockout.
Master Class Vol. 12: Viswanathan Anand
This DVD allows you to learn from the example of one of the best players in the history of chess and from the explanations of the authors how to successfully organise your games strategically, consequently how to keep your opponent permanently under press
| Date | Round |
| July 21 | Prelims Round 1 |
| July 22 | Prelims Round 2 |
| July 23 | Prelims Round 3 |
| July 24 | Prelims Round 4 |
| July 25 | Prelims Round 5 |
| July 26 | Prelims Round 6 |
| July 27 | Prelims Round 7 |
| July 28 | Prelims Round 8 |
| July 29 | Prelims Round 9 |
| July 30 | Rest day |
| July 31 | Semifinals Set 1 |
| August 1 | Semifinals Set 2 |
| August 2 | Semifinals Set 3 |
| August 3 | Final Set 1 |
| August 4 | Final Set 2 |
| August 5 | Final Set 3 |
