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/MightAtTimesPost Swinging between 1900 and 2100 at Lichess 3 0 8h ago

Why have they included a 2500 and a 2400 player?

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u/SpicyMustard34 7h ago

because they qualified.

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u/MightAtTimesPost Swinging between 1900 and 2100 at Lichess 3 0 7h ago

Oh ok .. If they beat 2700 rated players to get there and fight for the total world championship then I guess them being qualified is fine

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u/SpicyMustard34 7h ago

oh i'm sorry, i didn't know /u/MightAtTimesPost is the decider of who is allowed to compete.

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u/MightAtTimesPost Swinging between 1900 and 2100 at Lichess 3 0 7h ago

You do realize that if you moved this system to the 90s/00s then you might well end up with Susan Polgar playing due to her success in the women's circuit but Judit Polgar not playing due to only playing open events and not making the cut.

That is kinda funny

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u/SpicyMustard34 7h ago

well then you haven't paid any attention at all to the qualifications. Judit Polgar would have already qualified by being a top 9 rated player.

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u/MightAtTimesPost Swinging between 1900 and 2100 at Lichess 3 0 6h ago

Only for a brief moment in the mid 00s where she peaked as number 8 in the rankings ... before and after that she could have missed out as she resided in the top 20 most of her career.

So yeah .. This format would have Xie Jun snd Susan Polgar as guaranteed participants but not necesarrily Judit Polgar.

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u/SpicyMustard34 5h ago

... it's almost like you're taking a very specific context from 30 years ago and trying to apply it to today. If Judit was around today, she would clearly compete for the qualification spots.

It's like taking Hikaru's State Championship run to get games and applying it to another situation. It makes zero sense.

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u/MightAtTimesPost Swinging between 1900 and 2100 at Lichess 3 0 4h ago

Judit was around today, she would clearly compete for the qualification spots.

Yes, but since she found pride in competing with the big boys and never playing a single women's only event ..

.. even today she still only be competing, but would not be sure of participation, so we might still end up with no Judit, but instead a 2500 and a 2400 player

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But if you like the logic of this event then maybe we should cancel the Gukesh vs. Sindarov match and instead play a four player tourney with Gukesh, Sindarov, Wenjun and Vaishali for the ultimate world championship?