FIDE Nations Cup - Superfinal Live

USA vs. China

The International Chess Federation and Chess.com announce the Online Nations Cup, a team competition held May 5-10, 2020. Six teams are due to take part in this competition: Russia, USA, Europe, China, India, plus a team representing the "Rest of the World."

Two retired legends, Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik, will be the captains for the European and Indian teams respectively. A former world championship rival of both of them, Viswanathan Anand, will defend the first board of the Indian team.

The games will be played in a rapid format, where each player begins the game with 25 minutes on their clock, plus 10 seconds of extra time added after each move.

In order to guarantee fair play in an entirely online event, during their games, players will be observed by FIDE-affiliated international arbiters via a video conference call. To ensure that the participants don't receive any kind of external help from a computer, their webcam, computer screen and the room in which they are playing will be under supervision.

The group stage runs May 5-9, with two rounds per day. The Superfinal is played on May 10. The games start 15:00 CEST / 9 a.m. Eastern / 6 a.m. Pacific.

Schedule

Date	Pacific time	Eastern time	CEST	Event
May 5	6 a.m.	9 a.m.	15:00	Round 1
May 5	7:45 a.m.	10:45 a.m.	16:45	Round 2
May 6	6 a.m.	9 a.m.	15:00	Round 3
May 6	7:45 a.m.	10:45 a.m.	16:45	Round 4
May 7	6 a.m.	9 a.m.	15:00	Round 5
May 7	7:45 a.m.	10:45 a.m.	16:45	Round 6
May 8	6 a.m.	9 a.m.	15:00	Round 7
May 8	7:45 a.m.	10:45 a.m.	16:45	Round 8
May 9	6 a.m.	9 a.m.	15:00	Round 9
May 9	7:45 a.m.	10:45 a.m.	16:45	Round 10
May 10	7 a.m.	10 a.m.	16:00	Superfinal

The tournament will be broadcast live across multiple outlets including FIDE's and Chess.com's own channels across Twitch, YouTube, Mixer, Twitter, and other international streaming platforms. With an estimated audience of several million worldwide, commentary by chess experts will be conducted in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish and Polish.

Games

Live commentary

The teams

China
Captain: Ye Jiangchuan	Std.	Rpd.
Ding Liren	2791	2836
Wang Hao	2763	2750
Wei Yi	2732	2752
Hou Yifan	2658	2621
Yu Yangyi	2709	2738
Ju Wenjun	2560	2610
	2.702,17	2.717,83

Europe
Captain: Garry Kasparov	Std.	Rpd.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2778	2860
Levon Aronian	2773	2778
Anish Giri	2764	2731
Anna Muzychuk	2535	2533
Jan-Krzysztof Duda	2753	2774
Nana Dzagnidze	2524	2447
	2.687,83	2.687,17

Russia
Captain: Alexander Motylev	Std.	Rpd.
Ian Nepomniachtchi	2784	2778
Vladislav Artemiev	2716	2769
Sergey Karjakin	2752	2709
Aleksandra Goryachkina	2582	2502
Dmitry Andreikin	2726	2740
Olga Girya	2469	2471
	2.671,50	2.661,50

United States
Captain: John Donaldson	Std.	Rpd.
Fabiano Caruana	2835	2773
Hikaru Nakamura	2736	2829
Wesley So	2770	2741
Irina Krush	2429	2392
Leinier Dominguez Perez	2758	2786
Anna Zatonskih	2420	2327
	2.658,00	2.641,33

India
Adviser: Vladimir Kramnik	Std.	Rpd.
Viswanathan Anand	2753	2751
Vidit Gujrathi	2726	2636
Pentala Harikrishna	2719	2690
Humpy Koneru	2586	2483
Adhiban Baskaran	2659	2624
Harika Dronavalli	2515	2450
	2.659,67	2.605,67

Rest of the World
Captain: Arkady Dvorkovich	Std.	Rpd.
Teimour Radjabov	2765	2758
Alireza Firouzja	2728	2703
Bassem Amin	2686	2608
Mariya Muzychuk	2544	2506
Jorge Cori	2652	2599
Dinara Saduakassova	2500	2412
	2.645,83	2.597,67

Discuss

Rules for reader comments

Leavenfish 5/11/2020 05:04

The match ended in a tie...so China won. A tie is the logical result of a game of chess, particularly at the highest level.

Thehug1987 5/11/2020 01:50

Does it end in a tie?

Leavenfish 5/10/2020 06:12

@fixpont, of course it is. And sure they are 'fine names' for what that is worth. What I was speaking of of coursre was the name: Online Nations Cup. Those aren't ' 'nations'...

And now we get to the final with DRAW ODDS? I can see rewarding a team that marched thru the event, but that is an insane edge in a 4 game match. Perhaps 3 whites on boards of their choice or some such, but DRAW ODDS?? That clearly has to be revisited before the next such event.