The FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss Tournament and Women’s Grand Swiss 2021
Open: Top 2 players qualify for the 2020 Candidates tournament. 3rd - 8th place qualify for the Grand-Prix.
Women: The winner will qualify for the Women Candidates . 4 Best players qualify for Women’s Grand-Prix.
Firouzja and Lei Tingjie are the winners.
25th October - 8th November 2021
Riga (Latvia)
Players: 114 ( Open ) and 50 ( Women)
11-round - the Swiss-system
Total prize fund is $550,000
Time control: 40 moves / 100 mn + 20 / 50 +
15 mn until the end + 30 sec per move from move 1
Top 10 Players - Ratings
Caruana, Fabiano USA 2800
Aronian, Levon ARM 2782
Firouzja, Alireza FRA 2770
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2763
Vitiugov, Nikita RUS 2727
Esipenko, Andrey RUS 2720
Harikrishna, Pentala IND 2719
Dubov, Daniil RUS 2714
Alekseenko, Kirill RUS 2710
Fedoseev, Vladimir RUS 2704
ROUNDS
Standings --
Watch the games
Final Round ( 11 ) - top 5 boards
Oparin Grigoriy - Firouzja Alireza : 0.5 - 0.5
Caruana Fabiano - Predke Alexandr : 0.5 - 0.5
Yu Yangyi - Vachier-Lagrave Maxime : 0.5 - 0.5
Deac Bogdan-Daniel - Esipenko Andrey : 0.5 - 0.5
Sargissian Gabriel - Shirov Alexei : 0.5 - 0.5
Round 10 - top 5 boards
Firouzja Alireza - Howell David W L : 1 - 0
Vachier-Lagrave Maxime - Caruana Fabiano : 0.5 - 0.5
Vitiugov Nikita - Oparin Grigoriy : 0 - 1
Shirov Alexei - Yu Yangyi: 0.5 - 0.5
Predke Alexandr - Anton Guijarro David : 0.5 - 0.5
Round 9 - top 5 boards
Caruana Fabiano - Firouzja Alireza : 1 - 0
Anton Guijarro David - Vachier-Lagrave Maxime : 0.5 - 0.5
Shirov Alexei - Vitiugov Nikita i: 0.5 - 0.5
Howell David W L - Korobov Anton : 1 - 0
Oparin Grigoriy - Predke Alexandr i: 0.5 - 0.5
Round 8 - top 5 boards
Firouzja Alireza - Sasikiran Krishnan : 1 - 0
Vachier-Lagrave Maxime- Shirov Alexei: 0.5 - 0.5
Grandelius Nils - Caruana Fabiano : 0 - 1
Vitiugov Nikita - Ponkratov Pavel : 1 - 0
Howell David W L - Esipenko Andrey : 1 - 0
Round 7 - top 5 boards
Firouzja Alireza - Najer Evgeniy : 1 - 0
Sasikiran Krishnan - Vachier-Lagrave Maxime : 0.5 - 0.5
Esipenko Andrey - Shirov Alexei : 0.5 - 0.5
Caruana Fabiano - Sevian Samuel : 0.5 - 0.5
Anton Guijarro David - Dubov Daniil : 0.5 - 0.5
Round 6 - top 5 boards
Shirov Alexei - Firouzja Alireza: 0.5 - 0.5
Najer Evgeniy - Caruana Fabiano : 0.5 - 0.5
Vachier-Lagrave Maxime - Ponkratov Pavel : 1 - 0
Sevian Samuel - Yu Yangyi : 0.5 - 0.5
Nihal Sarin - Navara David : 0.5 - 0.5
Round 5 - top 5 boards
Firouzja Alireza - Vachier-Lagrave Maxime: 0.5 - 0.5
Tari Aryan - Yu Yangyi : 0.5 - 0.5
Ponkratov Pavel - Sevian Samuel: 0.5 - 0.5
Saric Ivan - Shirov Alexei : 0 - 1
Hovhannisyan Robert - Najer Evgeniy : 0 - 1
Round 4 - top 5 boards
Yu Yangyi - Firouzja Alireza : 0.5 - 0.5
Nihal Sarin - Ponkratov Pavel : 0.5 - 0.5
Najer Evgeniy - Saric Ivan : 0.5 - 0.5
Aronian Levon - Hovhannisyan Robert : 0.5 - 0.5
Swiercz Dariusz - Caruana Fabiano : 0.5 - 0.5
Round 3 - top 5 boards
Firouzja Alireza - Predke Alexandr : 1 - 0
Caruana Fabiano - Saric Ivan : 0.5 - 0.5
Demchenko Anton - Aronian Levon : 0.5 - 0.5
Donchenko Alexander - Vachier-Lagrave Maxime: 0.5 - 0.5
Tari Aryan - Fedoseev Vladimir : 0.5 - 0.5
Round 2 - top 5 boards
Nihal Sarin - Caruana Fabiano : 0.5 - 0.5
Swiercz Dariusz - Firouzja Alireza : 0 - 1
Saric Ivan - Alekseenko Kirill : 1 - 0
Maghsoodloo Parham - Gukesh D : 0.5 - 0.5
Artemiev Vladislav - Brkic Ante : 0.5 - 0.5
Round 1 - top 5 boards
Caruana Fabiano - Chigaev Maksim : 1 - 0
Tabatabaei M. Amin - Aronian Levon : 0.5 - 0.5
Firouzja Alireza - Abasov Nijat : 1 - 0
Niemann Hans Moke - Vachier-Lagrave Maxime : 0.5 - 0.5
Vitiugov Nikita - Dreev Aleksey : 0.5 - 0.5
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