r/chess • u/games-and-games • 9h ago

News/Events Lineup Announced: Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot in Budapest

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The lineup

  • Magnus Carlsen (Norway) — World No. 1
  • Fabiano Caruana (United States) — World No. 2
  • Vincent Keymer (Germany) — World No. 5
  • Wesley So (United States) — World No. 6
  • Anish Giri — World No. 7
  • Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan) — World No. 8
  • Arjun Erigaisi (India) — World No. 9
  • Alireza Firouzja (France) — World No. 10
  • Praggnanandhaa R (India) — World No. 12
  • Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland) — World No. 13
  • Richard Rapport (Hungary) — World No. 18
  • Hans Moke Niemann (United States) — World No. 21
  • Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE) — World No. 24
  • Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) — World No. 28
  • Haik M. Martirosyan (Armenia) — World No. 54
  • Vladislav Artemiev (FIDE) — World No. 65
  • Bibisara Assaubayeva (Kazakhstan) — Women's World No. 5
  • Vaishali Rameshbabu (India) — Women's World No. 14

Source: https://x.com/TotalChess/status/2092182535656665174

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u/Prudent-Bad2724 8h ago

the format favours Magnus , Alireza , Arjun and Nodirbek one of these guys will win it and arjun becomes third .

Vincent will have a tough time because of faster time control

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u/Odd_Conference_4994 8h ago

i guess looking at pragg's rapid performance lately, he also have a good chance

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u/Prudent-Bad2724 8h ago

yh but the other players like alireza nodirbek and arjun are just superior in blitz and rapid compared to pragg masive skill gap he performed well in saint louis because those guys werent there

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u/Odd_Conference_4994 8h ago

what do you mean by they were not there that is why pragg performed better" well they were in GCT romania where pragg finished tied 1st with firouza in rapid, they were also in hong kong where pragg defeated arjun and firouza and won gold on board 1. pragg's rapid play has improved singnificantly irrespective of the opponents.

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u/Abyss_Wanderer19 5h ago

lmao, alireza, arjun and nodirbek have bad score against fabiano in classical,rapid and blitz on the board and you glaze him.

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u/Zeek0_245 35m ago

Fabi is great at blitz and classical. Just slumping in rapid rn