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11/22/2020 – The Skilling Open is the first stop on the 2020-21 Champions Chess Tour. With 16 participants, the event will be played from November 22 to 30. A single free-for-all tournament to be played Sunday through Tuesday will decide who proceeds to the knockout phase, while the top eight will advance to a 6-day knockout. Each day’s action starts at 17:00 GMT (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET). | In the photo: Vidit Gujrathi | Photo: Alina l’Ami
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Day 1 – Preliminaries
First, the 16 players will face off in a single round robin, to be played between Sunday and Tuesday, with five rounds per day. The top eight will advance to a 6-day knockout, with two days each to the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.
- Sunday, November 22: rounds 1-5
- Monday, November 23: rounds 6-10
- Tuesday, November 24: rounds 11-15
Live commentary and games
Learn from the classics
Sagar Shah shows you in 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.
Comment from Soumya Swaminathan, Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal
Tour points and a $ 100,000 prize pool are at stake, with $ 30,000 for first place.
- Winner: $ 30,000
- Runner-up: $ 15,000
- Semifinals: $ 7,500
- Quarter-finals: $ 5,000
- Preliminaries: $ 2,500
Full lineup
| # | Name | Fed | Rating (fast) | Years |
| 1 | Magnus carlsen | Norway | 2881 | 29 |
| 2 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | France | 2860 | 30 |
| 3 | Ding liren | China | 2836 | 28 |
| 4 | Hikaru nakamura | United States | 2829 | 32 |
| 5 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | Russia | 2778 | 30 |
| 6 | Levon Aronian | Armenia | 2778 | 38 |
| 7 | Jan-Krzysztof Doubt | Poland | 2774 | 22 |
| 8 | Teimour Radjabov | Azerbaijan | 2758 | 33 |
| 9 | Liem Quang Le | Vietnam | 2744 | 29 |
| 10 | Peter svidler | Russia | 2742 | 44 |
| eleven | Wesley as well | United States | 2741 | 27 |
| 12 | Anish Giri | Netherlands | 2731 | 26 |
| 13 | Sergey Karjakin | Russia | 2709 | 30 |
| 14 | Alireza Firouzja | FIDE | 2703 | 17 |
| fifteen | David anton | Spain | 2667 | 25 |
| sixteen | Vidit Gujrathi | India | 2636 | 26 |
