The Prince of Chess strikes AGAIN!
38The ChessKid Cup 2023 will be held from the 22nd of May to the 26th on chess.com. The tournament is the 3rd event of the Champions Chess Tour - a series of elite online tournaments with a prize pool of $2,000,000.
Format
A Play-in event is held on May 1st, where qualifiers will be trying to clinch a spot in one of the three main divisions - 1, 2 and 3. Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, and Nodirbek Abdusattorov are seeded directly into division 1 due to their performance in Chessable Masters. The Play-in will be held as a 9-round Swiss tournament followed by a knockout match.
The main tournament is held from 22nd of May to the 26th. In each division, the format is a double-elimination tournament. Division 1 has 8 players, Division 2 has 16 players, and Division 3 has 32 players. In the Winners Bracket, each match is a best-of-4 match. In the Losers Bracket, each match is a best-of-2 match. A bidding armageddon game with a 15-minute base time is used as a tiebreaker. The winner of the main knockout stage will then face the winner of the Losers Bracket in best-of-4-game Grandfinal. If the contender from the Losers Bracket wins, a three-game tiebreak stage known as the Grand Final Reset will then be held to determine the eventual winner.
Time Control
Time control for the Play-in is 10 minutes for the entire game with a 2-second increment beginning from move 1. Time control for the Main tournament is 15 minutes for the entire game with a 3-second increment beginning from move 1.
PGN OF THE GAME:
[Event "CCT_Event3_Div1_KO"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2023.05.24"]
[Round "3.3"]
[White "Van Foreest, Jorden"]
[Black "Abdusattorov, Nodirbek"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "2692"]
[BlackElo "2802"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "900+3"]
[ECO "D27"]
[Opening "Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Main Line"]
[Termination "Unterminated"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 a6 6. O-O c5 { D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense, Main Line } 7. b3 b6 8. Bb2 Bb7 9. Be2 Nbd7 10. Nbd2 Be7 11. Ne5 Nxe5 12. dxe5 Nd5 13. Bf3 Qc7 14. a3 O-O 15. Qc2 Rfd8 16. Rac1 Rd7 17. Rfd1 Rad8 18. Ne4 Qc8 19. Qb1 Qa8 20. h3 h6 21. Ba1 a5 22. Qc2 Nxe3 23. Rxd7 Nxc2 24. Rxb7 Qxb7 25. Nf6+ Bxf6 26. Bxb7 Nxa1 27. Rxa1 Bxe5 28. Re1 Bc3 29. Re2 Rd1+ 30. Kh2 Rb1
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