Chess World Cup 2019

The International Chess Federation has received only one application for the World Chess Cup 2019 and the World Chess Olympiad 2020 . This application was submitted by the Ugra Chess Federation ^[2] .

The tournament is held by knockout system.

Each match in the tournament consists of two games (except for the final and the match for the third place, where there will be four such games) with a time control of 90 minutes and 30 seconds of Fisher addition for the first forty moves, and after overcoming the fortieth turn for another 30 minutes with the same adding.

If after two games the score in the match remains the same, a tie-break is assigned, which will be played the next day. A tie-break is played out according to the following system:

• Two games of fast chess (25 minutes with a 10-second addition).
• If the score remains drawn after two quick games, two more games are played with a 10-minute control with a 10-second addition per turn.
• If the score is drawn after four rapid chess games, the opponents play two games in blitz with control of five minutes and three seconds of addition.
• If the score remains in a draw even in this case, then the so-called death party (or armageddon ) is appointed, in which White has five minutes, Black has four, but a draw in the game is considered a black victory. Starting with move 61, a two-second addition to the turn appears in the death party.

Participants in the world cup final tournament. The rules said that they would be two finalists, besides Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, because Carlsen, as the world champion, would not participate in the applicants' tournament, and Caruana had already won a place in this tournament. But Carlsen and Caruana both refused to participate in the World Cup, so the usual system will take place.

Each of the first six rounds is played for three days:

• in the first two days, two parties are held with a classic time control ;
• on the third day, a tie-break is played if the winner is not identified in the first two games.

The final and match for 3rd place are played for four days (classic control) with a possible tie-break on the fifth day.

All tours begin at 13:00 Moscow time (at 15:00 local time ) ^[3] .

Participants are sorted by FIDE rating for August 2019. All players are grandmasters , unless otherwise indicated.

World Cup Qualification

• World Champion (1)
• WC: Semifinalists of the 2017 World Chess Cup (4)
• WWC: World Chess Champion 2018 (1)
• J17, J18: Winners of the Youth World Championships 2017 and 2018 (2)
• E18 and E19: European Chess Championship 2018 (24) and 2019 (22)
• AM18 and AM19: American Chess Championship 2018 (4) and 2019 (4)
• AS18 and AS19: Asian Chess Championship 2018 (5) and 2019 (5)
• AF: African Chess Championship 2019 (2)
• Z2.1 (5), Z2.2 (1), Z2.3 (2), Z2.4 (2), Z2.5 (2), Z3.1 (1), Z3.2 (1), Z3 .3 (2), Z3.4 (2), Z3.5 (2), Z3.6 (1), Z3.7 (1), Z4.1 (1), Z4.2 (1), Z4. 3 (1), Z4.4 (1): Regional Championships
• R: Rating (average rating from August 2018 to July 2019) (18)
• ACP: a chess player who showed the best result in an ACP round , who did not qualify for other criteria (1)
• PN: FIDE Presidential Nominations (5)
• ON: Organizer Nominations (4)

Member Substitutions

• Refused to play:
  •   Magnus Carlsen ( NOR ) ( World Champion )
  •   Ju Wenjun ( CHN ) ( World Champion ) (refused to participate in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019-2020)
  •   Viswanathan Anand ( IND ) (decided to focus on preparing for the selection of applicants for the 2020 tournament through the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2019 ^[4] )
  •   Vladimir Kramnik ( RUS ) (left big chess in January 2019)
  •   Richard Rapport ( HUN )
  •   Veselin Topalov ( BUL )
• Their places were taken by the following chess players (by rating):
  •   Dmitry Andreikin ( RUS )
  •   Arkady Naidich ( AZE )
  •   Santos Sees ( IND )
  •   Vladimir Fedoseev ( RUS )
  •   Evgeny Tomashevsky ( RUS )
  •   Michael Adams ( ENG )
• Other replacements:
  •   Fabiano Caruana ( USA ) (Z2.1) →   Alan Pichot ( ARG ) (AM19)
  •   Max Illingworth ( AUS ) (Z3.6) →   Sean Press ( PNG ) (Z3.6)
  •   Saleh Salem ( UAE ) (PN) →   Nodirbek Abdusattors ( UZB ) (PN)

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

3rd place match

Final

• Official page
• Tournament Regulations