Live games of Grand Swiss 2019

by Satanick Mukhuty - 10/10/2019

The erstwhile chess.com Isle of Man International has evolved to become the newest addition to the World Championship cycle 2019-2020. The FIDE chess.com Grand Swiss, as it is now being called, has officially been inaugurated yesterday (October 9th) at the Comis Hotel in Douglas, Isle of Man. 154 top class Grandmasters from 42 nations are all set to battle it out. A place in the eight-player Candidates tournament, to be held in March-April of next year, is at stake. Moreover, the prize fund for this eleven-round swiss event is a whopping $433,000 with the first place worth an eye-popping $70,000. The latter detail has attracted none other than the current World Champion Magnus Carlsen and World no.2 Fabiano Caruana to join the party. There are fifteen Indian players, led by the Madras Tiger Vishy Anand himself, who are competing in this event. On this page you can follow all the action live with timely commentary and updates.

A preview article on the tournament

Grand Swiss R01: Vishy's misfortune and Raunak's bravado

Grand Swiss R02: Adhiban on a roll, Vishy bounces back

Grand Swiss R03: Adhiban and Vidit lead the Indian contingent

Grand Swiss R04: Magnus Carlsen survives a massive scare

Grand Swiss R05: The resurgence of the World Champion

Grand Swiss R06: Vishy Anand's instructive lesson in Spanish

Grand Swiss R07: Aronian joins the lead, a mixed day for Indians

Grand Swiss R08: Vishy inches closer to the top

Grand Swiss R09: An array of strong performances with Vishy leading the way

Grand Swiss R10: Grand Swiss R10: Who will qualify in the Candidates 2020?

You can follow the live commentary by GM Daniel King and IM Anna Rudolf, joined by WIM Fiona Steil-Antoni for interviews, on Twitch.tv/chess.

Live updates

Pairings for the final round

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	12	GM	Nakamura Hikaru	2745	7		7½	GM	Caruana Fabiano	2812	2
2	8	GM	Aronian Levon	2758	7		7	GM	Carlsen Magnus	2876	1
3	38	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	2674	7		7	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	2732	13
4	15	GM	Wang Hao	2726	7		7	GM	Howell David W L	2694	24
5	110	GM	Paravyan David	2602	6½		6½	GM	Le Quang Liem	2708	19
6	39	GM	Anton Guijarro David	2674	6½		6½	GM	Hovhannisyan Robert	2639	74
7	44	GM	Kryvoruchko Yuriy	2669	6		6	GM	So Wesley	2767	3
8	43	GM	Robson Ray	2670	6		6	GM	Anand Viswanathan	2765	4
9	61	GM	Sevian Samuel	2654	6		6	GM	Yu Yangyi	2763	5
10	53	GM	Kovalev Vladislav	2661	6		6	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2760	6
11	7	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2759	6		6	GM	Gelfand Boris	2686	30
12	9	GM	Harikrishna Pentala	2748	6		6	GM	Leko Peter	2670	42
13	48	GM	Maghsoodloo Parham	2664	6		6	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	2748	10
14	63	GM	Melkumyan Hrant	2650	6		6	GM	Svidler Peter	2729	14
15	17	GM	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	2718	6		6	GM	Deac Bogdan-Daniel	2613	102
16	18	GM	Matlakov Maxim	2716	6		6	GM	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	2638	76
17	83	GM	Abasov Nijat	2632	6		6	GM	Xiong Jeffery	2708	20
18	27	GM	Grandelius Nils	2691	6		6	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2624	94
19	95	GM	Rakhmanov Aleksandr	2621	6		5½	GM	Inarkiev Ernesto	2693	26
20	60	GM	Oparin Grigoriy	2654	5½		5½	GM	Amin Bassem	2699	22

Complete pairings

The final round action of FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss Isle of Man has begun! Following are the three encounters expected to be particularly interesting from an Indian perspective: Spain no.1 Francisco Vallejo Pons versus Adhiban Baskaran, the Russian phenom Vladislav Artemiev versus Gukesh D, and Harikrishna Pentala versus Peter Leko!

Live Games

Completed Games

Schedule

The games begin from the 10th of October, Thursday. Rounds 1 to 10 are scheduled to start from 7:30 p.m IST (Local time 3:00 p.m), while the final eleventh round will begin on October 21st at 6:00 p.m IST (Local time 1:30 p.m). A rest day for the players has been allotted on October 16th. The full playing schedule is given below:

Round	Date	Time
1	2019/10/10	15:00
2	2019/10/11	15:00
3	2019/10/12	15:00
4	2019/10/13	15:00
5	2019/10/14	15:00
6	2019/10/15	15:00
7	2019/10/17	15:00
8	2019/10/18	15:00
9	2019/10/19	15:00
10	2019/10/20	15:00
11	2019/10/21	13:30

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