The Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2023 is a 6-team double round-robin tournament held from the 22nd of June to the 2nd of July in Dubai. The total prize pool is $1,000,000.
Format
The teams consist of six players. Each team has one icon (board 1), two male players (boards 2 and 3), two female players (boards 4 and 5), and a junior (board 6). See the team lists for full rosters. They compete on six boards against another team simultaneously. All players from the same team will play with the same colour in a match. There are 5 days consisting of 2 matches, and 5 days consisting of 4 matches.
Game and Match Points
The Game Points (GP) are awarded in the following way: a win with black pieces is worth of 4 GP, a win with white pieces is worth of 3 GP, a draw is worth of 1 GP, and a loss is worth of 0 GP. The Match Points (MP) are awarded in the following way: 3 MP to the team that scores more GP than their opponent, 1 MP to the team that scores the same GP as their opponent, and 0 MP to the team that scores fewer GP than their opponent. The two teams with the most MP qualify to the Final (the first three tie-breaks are GP, Direct Encounter, and Extended Sonneborn-Berger). The Final is a best-of-2 match. If tied, a blitz playoff shall take place.
Time control
The time control is 15 minutes with a 10-second increment beginning from move one. The players cannot draw a game by agreement before 30 moves each have been made.
PGN:
[Event “Day 5 | Match 5.3: Viswanathan Anand – Levon Aronian”]
[Site “https://lichess.org/study/nZguvOXJ/k9U3Dr8v“]
[Date “2023.06.26”]
[White “Viswanathan Anand”]
[Black “Levon Aronian”]
[Result “*”]
[UTCDate “2023.06.26”]
[UTCTime “13:15:22”]
[WhiteElo “?”]
[BlackElo “?”]
[Variant “Standard”]
[TimeControl “-“]
[ECO “C78”]
[Opening “Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense”]
[Termination “Unterminated”]
[Annotator “lichess.org”]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O { C78 Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense } b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. c3 d6 8. d4 Bb6 9. Be3 Bg4 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. h3 Bh5 12. dxe5 dxe5 13. Bxb6 cxb6 14. Qe2 Qc7 15. g4 Bg6 16. Nh4 Na5 17. f3 Nxb3 18. axb3 Nd7 19. b4 Rfd8 20. Rfd1 Nf8 21. Nf1 Ne6 22. Ng2 Nf4 23. Nxf4 exf4 24. Rxd8+ Qxd8 25. Qd2 Qc7 26. Rd1 h5 27. gxh5 Bh7 28. Qd6 Qxd6 29. Rxd6 Re8 30. Rxb6 f5 31. e5 Rxe5 32. Kf2 Kf7 33. Nd2 Re6 34. Rb7+ Kg8 35. Nb3 Rh6 36. Nd4 Rxh5 37. Ne6 Kh8 38. Nxf4 Rh6 39. h4 Bg8 40. h5 Kh7 41. Rd7 Be6 42. Rc7 Bc4 43. Kg3 Rd6 44. Kh4 Bd5 45. Kg5 Bxf3 46. Kxf5 Kh6 47. Ke5 Rf6 48. Ne6 Bg4 49. Nxg7 Rf2 50. Rc6+ Kh7 51. h6 Rxb2 52. Rxa6 Rh2 53. Rf6 Rh3 54. Kd4 Be2 55. Ne6 Rh5 56. Nf8+ Kh8 57. Ng6+ Kh7 58. Nf4 Rh4 59. Kc5 Bc4 60. Ne6 Rh5+ 61. Kb6 Kg8 62. Nd4 Kh7 63. Rc6 Bf1 64. Rc7+ Kxh6 65. Rc5 Rh3 66. Nxb5 Kg7 67. c4 Rb3 68. Ka5 Rb1 69. Nd6 Rd1 70. Nf5+ Kf6 71. Ne3 Ra1+ 72. Kb6 Bd3 73. b5 Ke6 74. Nd5 Bf1 75. Kc7 Ra7+ 76. Kc6 Ra4 77. b6 Bxc4 78. b7
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