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Champions Chess Tour 2023

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Champions Chess Tour 2023
Details
Duration6 February 2023 – 16 December 2023
Tournaments7
CategoriesRegular (6)
Finals (1)
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titlesNorway Magnus Carlsen (4)
Prize money leaderNorway Magnus Carlsen ($125,000)
Points leaderNorway Magnus Carlsen (625)
2022
2024

The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2023 was a fast chess tournament circuit that was organized in 2023 by Chess.com. The tour started on 6 February 2023 and ended on 16 December 2023. It involved six online chess tournaments and an over-the-board final round, featuring some of the world's top players who played for a prize money pool of US$2 million.

Organisation and format

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With Chess.com's purchase of Play Magnus Group, the 2023 Champions Chess Tour took its format components from previous seasons of the Champions Chess Tour and Chess.com tournaments, such as the Chess.com World Championship. Some of these enhancements to the contest included open qualifications and a division structure to accommodate more players. There are also several inventive format tweaks that were created to increase excitement and make every match matter.[1][2]

The new concept included six tournaments over the course of an entire online chess season, beginning with the Airthings Masters and continuing with playoffs and a knockout final. The qualifying tournaments of the Champions Chess Tour 2023 were open to all top 500 players in the rapid chess ranking.[3][4] The tournaments consisted of six $235,000 tournaments. The top ten finishers in the overall standings got a share of $100,000 prize money. The top finishers on the leaderboard filled the remaining seats in the $500,000 end-of-year finals in December, leaving the event champions with a golden ticket, with eight players playing the semi-final and four playing the final in December 2023.[1][2]

All titled players were allowed to compete in the qualifying rounds, with the exception of grandmasters, who were automatically entered into the play-in rounds. There were nine rounds of a Swiss-system tournament during qualifiers. The time limit was 10 minutes plus 2 seconds. The top three competitors in each competition had the chance to take part in the forthcoming Play-In.[5]

Tour points and prize money

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Regular

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The total prize pool for a Regular tournament is $235,000 for each tournament was distributed as follows:[5]

Points

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Finish Division I Division II Division III
1st 150 50 20
2nd 100 30 15
3rd 75 20 10
4th 50 15 8
5th (x2) 30 10 6
7th (x2) 20 8 5
9th (x4) - 6 4
13th (x4) - 5 3
17th (x8) - - 2
25th (x8) - - 1

Prize Money

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Finish Division I Division II Division III
1st $30,000 $10,000 $5,000
2nd $20,000 $7,500 $3,600
3rd $15,000 $6,000 $2,800
4th $12,500 $5,000 $2,400
5th (x2) $10,000 $4,500 $2,000
7th (x2) $7,500 $4,000 $1,800
9th (x4) - $3,500 $1,600
13th (x4) - $3,000 $1,400
17th (x8) - - $1,200
25th (x8) - - $1,000
Total $112,500 $71,500 $51,000

Playoffs and Finals

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The Playoffs and Finals have a $500,000 purse.[5]

Placing Prize
1st $200,000
2nd $100,000
3rd (x2) $50,000
5th $25,000
6th $20,000
7th $15,000
8th $12,000
Per Playoff match win $1,000

Leaderboard prizes

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After the end of the sixth event, players also earn their share of the $100,000 prize fund according to their CCT Tour Point standings.[5]

Placing Prize
1st $25,000
2nd $20,000
3rd $16,000
4th $12,000
5th $9,000
6th $7,000
7th $5,000
8th $3,000
9th $2,000
10th $1,000

Tournament schedule and results

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Champions Chess Tour tournaments[6]
Tournament Dates Prize Division I Winner of Division II Winner of Division III
Winner Second
(or finalist)
Third Fourth
Airthings Masters[7] February 6–10 $235,000 Norway Magnus Carlsen United States Hikaru Nakamura United States Wesley So India Arjun Erigaisi United States Fabiano Caruana United States Samuel Sevian
Chessable Masters[8] April 3–7 United States Hikaru Nakamura United States Fabiano Caruana Norway Magnus Carlsen United States Levon Aronian Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov Iran Amin Tabatabaei
ChessKid Cup[9] May 22–26 Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov United States Fabiano Caruana Netherlands Jorden Van Foreest France Jules Moussard Slovenia Vladimir Fedoseev Argentina Alan Pichot[10]
Aimchess Rapid July 10–14 Norway Magnus Carlsen United States Wesley So Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov Spain Eduardo Iturrizaga Belarus Denis Lazavik China Yu Yangyi
Julius Baer Generation Cup August 30 – September 3 Norway Magnus Carlsen France Alireza Firouzja Belarus Denis Lazavik Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi United States Samuel Sevian
AI Cup September 25–29 France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Norway Magnus Carlsen FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi Netherlands Anish Giri Slovenia Vladimir Fedoseev United States Samuel Sevian
Final December 15–22 $500,000 Norway Magnus Carlsen United States Wesley So

Standings

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Prize money is shown in US dollars. Bold number denotes a win in that division.

Legend
Did not qualify/participate Division I Division II Division III
Pos Name Airthings
Masters
Chessable
Masters
ChessKid
Cup
Aimchess
Rapid
Julius
Baer
Generation
Cup
AI
Cup
Total
Points
Prize
Money
1 Norway Magnus Carlsen 150 75 150 150 100 625 $125,000
2 United States Fabiano Caruana 50 100 100 30 30 15 325 $75,000
Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov 50 150 75 50 325 $67,500
4 United States Hikaru Nakamura 100 150 20 20 290 $65,000
5 United States Wesley So 75 30 100 30 235 $55,000
6 France Alireza Firouzja 20 30 100 30 180 $47,500
France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 30 150 180 $37,500
8 Belarus Denis Lazavik 10 10 10 50 75 20 175 $44,300
9 Slovenia Vladimir Fedoseev 20 50 20 8 50 148 $39,000
10 FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi 6 50 75 131 $28,500
11 United States Levon Aronian 50 30 30 110 $30,000
12 United States Samuel Sevian 20 3 5 30 20 20 98 $25,700
13 Netherlands Jorden van Foreest 75 20 95 $22,500
14 FIDE Vladislav Artemiev 30 20 30 80 $23,500
Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 5 30 15 30 80 $22,900
16 Netherlands Anish Giri 20 5 50 75 $20,300
17 China Yu Yangyi 30 15 4 20 69 $19,100
18 Serbia Alexey Sarana 30 15 5 6 10 66 $24,600
19 Spain Eduardo Iturrizaga 4 1 50 5 60 $18,100
20 India Arjun Erigaisi 50 6 56 $16,000
21 Iran Amin Tabatabaei 3 20 10 20 53 $18,400
22 France Jules Moussard 50 50 $12,500
23 Azerbaijan Rauf Mamedov 20 6 6 15 47 $16,600
24 FIDE Dmitry Andreikin 6 15 6 5 10 42 $16,800
25 Vietnam Lê Quang Liêm 1 20 8 10 39 $15,300
Vietnam Lê Tuấn Minh 4 5 8 15 6 1 39 $15,200
27 Ukraine Pavel Eljanov 6 2 20 6 34 $15,700
28 Spain Alan Pichot 5 1 20 4 1 31 $11,600
India Gukesh D 30 1 31 $11,000
Peru Jose Martinez 5 2 20 4 31 $10,600
31 FIDE Vladimir Kramnik 10 10 4 3 3 30 $13,400
United States Gata Kamsky 6 6 10 8 30 $10,900
Uzbekistan Nodirbek Yakubboev 20 10 30 $10,500
Germany Dmitrij Kollars 30 30 $10,000
35 Vietnam Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn 5 20 25 $7,800
36 Ukraine Yuriy Kuzubov 4 20 24 $7,600
37 Armenia Aram Hakobyan 2 15 1 5 23 $10,200
India R Praggnanandhaa 15 8 23 $7,600
39 FIDE Alexey Dreev 6 6 5 5 22 $11,500
Germany Matthias Blübaum 8 8 3 1 2 22 $10,000
FIDE Aleksandr Shimanov 2 20 22 $8,700
42 Israel Evgeny Alekseev 1 10 10 21 $8,300
43 Uruguay Georg Meier 5 6 2 2 5 20 $10,700
India Raunak Sadhwani 5 5 10 20 $10,500
United States Grigoriy Oparin 4 6 10 20 $9,600
Ukraine Olexandr Bortnyk 10 10 20 $5,600
47 Germany Vincent Keymer 1 8 2 8 19 $10,200
48 Ukraine Martyn Kravtsiv 6 3 5 3 17 $9,300
49 United States Leinier Domínguez 8 8 16 $6,400
50 FIDE David Paravyan 4 1 8 2 15 $7,800
Serbia Alexandr Predke 15 15 $5,000
Egypt Amin Bassem 15 15 $5,000
India Pentala Harikrishna 15 15 $3,600
54 Spain Maksim Chigaev 5 2 5 2 14 $8,400
FIDE Daniil Dubov 8 6 14 $7,500
Uzbekistan Shamsiddin Vokhidov 1 10 2 1 14 $6,000
57 Iran Parham Maghsoodloo 5 6 1 1 13 $7,300
58 Croatia Ivan Šarić 6 6 12 $7,000
Hungary Benjámin Gledura 2 3 2 5 12 $6,800
Spain David Antón Guijarro 4 6 2 12 $6,300
United States Jeffery Xiong 8 4 12 $5,600
62 FIDE Mikhail Antipov 2 4 5 11 $5,800
France Laurent Fressinet 5 6 11 $5,300
Azerbaijan Vasif Durarbayli 2 3 6 11 $4,600
65 FIDE Andrey Esipenko 8 2 10 $5,200
66 Ukraine Vitaliy Bernadskiy 8 1 9 $3,400
Netherlands Benjamin Bok 3 6 9 $3,400
68 Azerbaijan Vugar Rasulov 2 5 1 8 $5,200
United Arab Emirates Salem Saleh 6 2 8 $4,700
Armenia Samvel Ter-Sahakyan 6 2 8 $4,700
Greece Nikolas Theodorou 4 4 8 $3,200
United States Aleksandr Lenderman 8 8 $2,400
United States Ray Robson 8 8 $2,400
74 Ukraine Igor Kovalenko 1 5 1 7 $5,000
Austria Kirill Alekseenko 1 6 7 $4,500
Azerbaijan Aydin Suleymanli 1 6 7 $4,500
Argentina Diego Flores 5 2 7 $4,200
Spain Francisco Vallejo Pons 3 4 7 $3,000
Georgia (country) Levan Pantsulaia 2 5 7 $3,000
80 Azerbaijan Eltaj Safarli 1 5 6 $4,000
FIDE Maxim Matlakov 3 1 2 6 $3,600
FIDE Rudik Makarian 2 3 1 6 $3,600
Netherlands Robby Kevlishvili 6 6 $3,500
United States Hans Niemann 6 6 $3,500
Poland Jan-Krzysztof Duda 6 6 $3,500
FIDE Alexander Grischuk 2 4 6 $2,800
India Pranav V 6 6 $2,000
China Wei Yi 6 6 $2,000
Czech Republic David Navara 6 6 $2,000
FIDE Anton Demchenko 6 6 $2,000
91 Azerbaijan Gadir Guseinov 2 1 2 5 $3,400
Romania Bogdan-Daniel Deac 5 5 $3,000
India Diptayan Ghosh 5 5 $3,000
India Bharath Subramaniyam 5 5 $3,000
Armenia Mamikon Gharibyan 5 5 $3,000
India Nihal Sarin 5 5 $3,000
Azerbaijan Mahammad Muradli 2 3 5 $2,600
Spain Alvar Alonso Rosell 4 1 5 $2,600
Germany Alexander Donchenko 5 5 $1,800
FIDE Evgeny Tomashevsky 5 5 $1,800
101 India Vaibhav Suri 2 2 4 $2,400
FIDE Mikhail Demidov 4 4 $1,600
FIDE Igor Lysyj 4 4 $1,600
FIDE Pavel Smirnov 4 4 $1,600
France Etienne Bacrot 4 4 $1,600
Chile Pablo Salinas Herrera 4 4 $1,600
Azerbaijan Teimour Radjabov 4 4 $1,600
FIDE Vladislav Kovalev 4 4 $1,600
109 India P. Iniyan 2 1 3 $2,200
Hungary Sanan Sjugirov 1 2 3 $2,200
Norway Aryan Tari 1 2 3 $2,200
FIDE Vladimir Malakhov 1 2 3 $2,200
Turkey Mustafa Yılmaz 2 1 3 $2,200
Armenia Shant Sargsyan 2 1 3 $2,200
United States Christopher Yoo 3 3 $1,400
FIDE Peter Svidler 3 3 $1,400
Brazil Alexandr Fier 3 3 $1,400
India Harshit Raja 3 3 $1,400
Spain Miguel Santos Ruiz 3 3 $1,400
Argentina Federico Perez Ponsa 3 3 $1,400
United States Timur Gareyev 3 3 $1,400
Romania Constantin Lupulescu 3 3 $1,400
Spain Jaime Santos Latasa 3 3 $1,400
Netherlands Thomas Beerdsen 3 3 $1,400
125 FIDE Arseniy Nesterov 2 2 $1,200
Czech Republic Peter Michalik 2 2 $1,200
Germany Rasmus Svane 2 2 $1,200
Paraguay Axel Bachmann 2 2 $1,200
India Harshvardhan GB 2 2 $1,200
Peru Renato Terry 2 2 $1,200
Armenia Hovhannes Gabuzyan 2 2 $1,200
Brazil Krikor Mekhitarian 2 2 $1,200
Azerbaijan Read Samadov 2 2 $1,200
India Aradhya Garg 2 2 $1,200
FIDE Aleksandr Rakhmanov 2 2 $1,200
136 Chile Rodrigo Vásquez Schroeder 1 1 $1,000
FIDE Sergey Drygalov 1 1 $1,000
China Xu Xiangyu 1 1 $1,000
FIDE Dmitry Frolyanov 1 1 $1,000
FIDE Klementy Sychev 1 1 $1,000
FIDE Sergei Lobanov 1 1 $1,000
Azerbaijan Abdulla Gadimbayli 1 1 $1,000
United States Andrew Tang 1 1 $1,000
India Krishnan Sasikiran 1 1 $1,000
India Srinath Narayanan 1 1 $1,000
United States Abhimanyu Mishra 1 1 $1,000
Iran Bardiya Daneshvar 1 1 $1,000
Latvia Nikita Meshkovs 1 1 $1,000
Serbia Velimir Ivic 1 1 $1,000
Azerbaijan Vugar Asadli 1 1 $1,000
Israel Ori Kobo 1 1 $1,000

Tournaments details

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Airthings Masters

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This initial tournament started on 6 February and ended on 10 February. Both a Play-in stage that is open to all grandmasters and a Knockout stage with three categories are available at the Airthings Masters. The prize pools for each category are distinct, and players can gain Tour Points according on the division they competed in and their finish. The players who have earned the most Tour Points by the tour's sixth event qualify for the CCT Playoff.[5] Magnus Carlsen won the tournament after defeating Hikaru Nakamura in Division I finals.[11] Fabiano Caruana won Division II after defeating Yu Yangyi.[11]

Division I Play-off

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Chessable Masters

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Division I Play-off

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ChessKid Cup

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Division I Play-off

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Aimchess Rapid

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Division I Play-off

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Julius Baer Generation Cup

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Division I Play-off

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AI Cup

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Division I Play-off

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Tour Finals

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Top 8 in the Tour standings are invited to the Tour Finals, played live over-the-board in Toronto, Canada.

Round-robin stage

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Every player played two-game matches against each of other players with a time control of 15+3. If a match is tied, an armageddon game is played to decide the winner of the match, using bidding system to decide playing time and color (base time of 15 minutes). First and second place directly qualified to semifinals, third to sixth place advanced to the survival stage, while the last two places are eliminated.

Champion Chess Tour Finals, round-robin stage, 10 – 13 December 2023, Toronto, Canada
Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 MP H2H
1  Wesley So (USA) 2737 Does not appear ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½* 0 1 ½* 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 6 1
2  Magnus Carlsen (Norway) 2818 ½ ½ 0 Does not appear ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 1 ½ 6 0
3  Fabiano Caruana (USA) 2762 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 Does not appear 0 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½* 1 ½ 5
4  Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan) 2727 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 Does not appear ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 4
5  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) 2767 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ 0 Does not appear ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 2 2
6  Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 2731 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 Does not appear 1 1 1 1 2 1
7  Alireza Firouzja (France) 2737 ½ ½ 0 1 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 0 0 Does not appear ½ ½ ½* 2 0
8  Denis Lazavik (FIDE) 2509 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ Does not appear 1
* - Match win by drawing armageddon game with black

Survival stage

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Third and fourth place from round-robin stage played a match, with the winner advances to semifinals. Fifth and sixth place also played a match, with the winner playing the loser of 3rd vs 4th for the last spot of the semifinals. Each match consisted of two games with armageddon tiebreak.

3rd-4th place match
Player 1 2 A
3 United States Fabiano Caruana 1 0 1
4 Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov 0 1 0
5th-6th place match
Player 1 2 A
5 France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 1 0 ½
6 United States Hikaru Nakamura 0 1 ½
4th-5th place match
Player 1 2 A
4 Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov ½ ½ ½
6 United States Hikaru Nakamura ½ ½ ½

Semifinals and finals

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Four players played a single-elimination bracket to decide the champion. Each match was played as best-of-three sets, with set 1 and 2 consisting of four games, and final set consisting of two games. If a set is drawn, an armageddon game is played.

Semifinals Final
          
1 United States Wesley So 2
4 Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov 1
1 United States Wesley So
2 Norway Magnus Carlsen
2 Norway Magnus Carlsen 3 3
3 United States Fabiano Caruana 2 2
Semifinal 1
Player Set 1 Set 2 Set 3
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 A
1 United States Wesley So 1 0 0 ½ 1 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1
4 Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov 0 1 1 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 0
Semifinal 2
Player Set 1 Set 2
1 2 3 4 A 1 2 3 4 A
2 Norway Magnus Carlsen 1 0 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1 0 1
3 United States Fabiano Caruana 0 1 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0
Final
Player Set 1 Set 2
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
1 United States Wesley So ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0
2 Norway Magnus Carlsen ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 1

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Advanced further by drawing armageddon game with black
  2. ^ Advanced further by winning armageddon game with white

References

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  1. ^ a b Team (CHESScom), Chess com (2023-02-13). "Chess.com Launches $2m Champions Chess Tour". Chess.com. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  2. ^ a b "Revamped Champions Chess Tour to kick off in February". Chess News. 2023-01-25. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  3. ^ Breuer, Stefan Dr (2023-02-12). Online-Schach für Amateur- und Hobbyspieler: 3. überarbeitete Auflage (in German). via tolino media. ISBN 978-3-7579-0448-7.
  4. ^ "Champions Tour opens up". ChessTech News. 2023-01-25. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Champions Chess Tour Airthings Masters 2023 - Info". Chess.com. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  6. ^ "How to watch the Champions Chess Tour 2023 Event 1 live on DAZN | DAZN News UK". DAZN. 2 February 2023. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  7. ^ "Carlsen beats Nakamura again, wins Airthings Masters". Chess News. 2023-02-10. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  8. ^ "Results – Champions Chess Tour". Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  9. ^ "ChessKid Cup – Champions Chess Tour". Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  10. ^ Alan Pichot was still representing Argentina at the time of the tournament
  11. ^ a b Levin (AnthonyLevin), Anthony. "Carlsen Defeats Nakamura, Wins Airthings Masters; Caruana, Sevian Win Divisions 2-3". Chess.com. Retrieved 2023-02-28.