The Casablanca Chess 2024 is a 4-player double round-robin tournament, held on the 18th and 19th of May in Casablanca, Morocco.
The event features four of world’s strongest grandmasters in Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand and Bassem Amin to play the new Casablanca chess variant.
The variant starts with a position from the opening phase of a historical game, where both sides have roughly equal evaluation. The players receive scoresheets of this position and have two minutes to set it up on the board before the clock starts running.
Time control is 15 minutes for the entire game with a 10-second increment from move 1.
PGN OF THE GAME:
[Event “Round 1: Carlsen, Magnus – Anand, Viswanathan”]
[Site “https://lichess.org/study/p9DoebWl/59lrdLPv“]
[Date “2024.05.18”]
[White “Carlsen, Magnus”]
[Black “Anand, Viswanathan”]
[Result “*”]
[UTCDate “2024.05.18”]
[UTCTime “14:45:51”]
[WhiteElo “2828”]
[BlackElo “2749”]
[Variant “Standard”]
[TimeControl “-“]
[ECO “C52”]
[Opening “Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Slow Variation”]
[Termination “Unterminated”]
[Annotator “lichess.org”]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. O-O { C52 Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Slow Variation } Qf6 7. d4 Nge7 8. Bg5 Qd6 9. Qb3 O-O 10. Rd1 Bb6 11. Na3 Na5 12. Qa4 Nec6 13. dxe5 Qc5 14. Rd5 Qxf2+ 15. Kh1 Qb2 16. Rb1 Qxa3 17. Qxa3 Nxc4 18. Qa4 Ne3 19. Rxb6 Nxd5 20. Rxc6 *
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