Legends & Prodigies, Round 9 - Live!

by ChessBase
9/25/2025 – From 17 to 25 September, the closed tournament "Legends and Prodigies" is being held in Madrid, featuring five GMs and five IMs in a generational clash. The event is a single round-robin with a classical time control. Among the participants are Peruvian GM Julio Granda, a legend of Latin American chess, alongside young talents Faustino Oro and Lu Miaoyi. The tournament will award a GM norm to players scoring 6/9 points. | Follow the games live starting at 16.00 CEST (10.00 ET, 19.30 IST)
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Round 9

The Legends & Prodigies tournament is a single round-robin with a time control of 90 minutes for the game and 30-second increments per move from the start of the game. The venue is Nave Bellver in Madrid, Spain.

The tournament offers a special incentive for the young players: all the participating International Masters, including the prodigies, need 6/9 points to score a Grandmaster norm.

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Live games and commentary

Commentary by GM Miguel Santos and IM David Martínez (in Spanish)

Current standings

All games

Participants

Player Title Elo Country
Julio Granda Zúñiga GM 2628 Peru
Alan Pichot GM 2588 Argentina
Diego Macías IM 2503 Spain
Omar Almeida GM 2494 Cuba
José "Pepe" Cuenca GM 2475 Spain
Faustino Oro IM 2464 Argentina
David Lariño GM 2451 Spain
Lu Miaoyi IM/WGM 2449 China
Ilan Schnaider IM 2409 Argentina
Pedro Martínez GM 2376 Venezuela

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