The Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge is an 8-player Chess960 tournament, held from the 9th to the 16th of February in Wangels, Germany.
The event consists of two stages, standings in the first stage determine the starting order of the second stage.
First stage is a round-robin tournament. Time control is 25 minutes for the entire game with a 10-second increment from move 1.
Second stage is a knockout tournament. Time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 41.
Starting positions are new each round and drawn 10 minutes before the games begin.
PGN OF THE GAME:
[Event “Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge”]
[Site “Weissenhaus, Germany”]
[Date “2024.02.12”]
[Round “2.4”]
[White “Carlsen, Magnus”]
[Black “Firouzja, Alireza”]
[Result “*”]
[WhiteElo “2830”]
[BlackElo “2760”]
[Variant “From Position”]
[TimeControl “-“]
[ECO “?”]
[Opening “?”]
[Termination “Unterminated”]
[FEN “rqnkrnbb/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RQNKRNBB w KQkq – 0 1”]
[SetUp “1”]
[Annotator “lichess.org”]
1. e4 e5 2. g3 c6 3. c3 g6 4. Ne3 Ne6 5. Ne2 Ne7 6. Rf1 Rf8 7. f4 f5 8. fxe5 fxe4 9. Rxf8+ Nxf8 10. Qxe4 Qxe5 11. Qb4 b6 12. d4 Qa5 13. Qxa5 bxa5 14. d5 cxd5 15. O-O-O Rc8 16. Nxd5 Nc6 17. Be3 Ne6 18. Bg2 Ke8 19. a3 Bf7 20. Nef4 g5 21. Nh3 h6 22. Nf2 d6 23. Ne4 Be5 24. Nef6+ Kf8 25. Nd7+ Kg7 26. Nxe5 dxe5 27. b4 axb4 28. axb4 g4 29. Kb2 Rb8 30. Nc7 Nxc7 31. Bxc6 Nb5 32. Rd7 Kf6 33. Bxa7 Nxa7 34. Rxa7 Bg6 35. Ra6 Kg5 36. Ra8 Rb6 37. b5 Bd3 38. Ra5 e4 39. Kb3 e3 40. c4 Kf5 *
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