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Preliminaries – Day 1
The preliminary stage is a 16-player individual round robin, with five rounds played per day on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. The time control is 15 minutes for all movements, with a 10 second increment per movement from movement 1.
Each day’s action starts at 16:00 GMT (17:00 CET, 11:00 ET, 21:30 IST).
Live commentary and games
Learn from the classics
Sagar Shah shows you on this DVD how you can use typical patterns used by the Master of the past in your own games. From the opening game to the themes of the middle game.
Commentary by Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal
Current positions
The eight players who top the Tour classification were automatically invited to the fourth stage of the series; currently Wesley So and Teimour Radjabov lead the overall standings, followed by Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian in third and fourth respectively. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (5th), Hikaru Nakamura (6th), Ian Nepomniachtchi (7th) and Daniil Dubov (8th) were also invited based on their overall position in the series.
Two spots were awarded based on popular vote, with Anish Giri and David Anton garnering the most support from the public; Carlsen himself invited four wild cards: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alireza Firouzja, Sergey Karjakin and Jorden van Foreest; while Alan Pichot and Nils Grandelius qualified in a four-player double round robin played on Tuesday.
