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The Prague Chess Festival kicks off from the 26th of February 2025.
These are the players in the masters: Wei Yi (2751), Praggnanandhaa (2741), Le Quang Liem (2739), Vincent Keymer (2731), Aravindh Chithambaram (2729), Anish Giri (2728), David Navara (2677), Sam Shankland (2670), Nguyen Thai Dai Van (2668), Ediz Gurel (2624).
There is also a challengers section and these are the players: Nodirbek Yakkuboev (2659), Ma Qun (2645), Jonas Bjerre (2640), Ivan Salgado Lopez (2599), Marc Andria Maurizzi (2581), Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (2580), Divya Deshmukh (2490), Vaclav Finek (2478), Richard Stalmach (2449), Jachym Nemec (2433).
Format: 9 games of Round Robin with a time control of 90 minutes + 30 minutes after move 40 and 30 seconds increment from move no.1.
Round 9 Masters Pairings :
GM LE Quang Liem vs GM WEI Yi
GM GIRI Anish vs GM PRAGGNANANDHAA R
GM NAVARA David vs GM SHANKLAND Sam
GUREL Ediz vs GM ARAVINDH Chithambaram Vr
NGUYEN Thai Dai Van vs GM KEYMER Vincent
Round 9 Challengers Pairings:
GM YAKUBBOEV Nodirbek vs IM FINEK Vaclav
GM MA Qun vs IM STALMACH Richard
GM MAURIZZI Marc`andria vs GM SALGADO LOPEZ Ivan
IM DIVYA Deshmukh vs GM KOURKOULOS-ARDITIS Stamatis
GM BJERRE Jonas Buhl vs FM NEMEC Jachym
Live commentary by IM Sagar Shah and GM Harshit Raja.
Reports on chessbase.in by Shahid Ahmed:
Curtain Raiser: https://chessbase.in/news/Prague-International-Chess-Festival-2025-preview
Round 1: https://www.chessbase.in/news/Prague-International-Chess-Festival-2025-Day-1-report
Round 2: https://www.chessbase.in/news/Prague-International-Chess-Festival-2025-Day-2-report
Round 3: https://www.chessbase.in/news/Prague-International-Chess-Festival-2025-Day-3-report
Round 4 :https://www.chessbase.in/news/Prague-International-Chess-Festival-2025-Day-4-report
Round 5 :https://www.chessbase.in/news/Prague-International-Chess-Festival-2025-Day-5-report
Round 6 :https://www.chessbase.in/news/Prague-International-Chess-Festival-2025-Day-7-report
Round 7 :https://www.chessbase.in/news/Prague-International-Chess-Festival-2025-Day-8-report
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