ChessBomb Blog: 2020-03

2020-03-29

USSR vs. Rest of the World 1970

The 1970 USSR vs. Rest of the World event was played over four rounds between two teams of 10 players. It was "an epoch-making battle" in the words of GM Garry Kasparov, and had virtually all the top players—including GM Bobby Fischer—together for one week in Belgrade, the capital of what was then Yugoslavia.
In the absence of chess events due to the coronavirus, we are relaying this historic event which happened exactly 50 years ago.
Participants:
The Soviet Team, in board order: Boris Spassky, Tigran Petrosian, Viktor Korchnoi, Lev Polugaevsky, Efim Geller, Vasily Smyslov, Mark Taimanov, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Paul Keres, and reserves Leonid Stein and David Bronstein.
The Rest of the World Team in board order: Bent Larsen, Fischer, Lajos Portisch, Vlastimil Hort, Svetozar Gligoric, Samuel Reshevsky, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Milan Matulovic, Miguel Najdorf, Borislav Ivkov, and reserves Fridrik Olafsson and Klaus Viktor Darga.

Official site

Schedule:
Round 1 Mar 29, 1970 (replyed on March 2th, 2020)
Round 2 Mar 31, 1970 (replyed on April 1st, 2020)
Round 3 April 2, 1970
Round 4 April 4, 1970

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2020-03-15

Candidates Chess Tournament 2020

The 2020 FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament is an 8-player tournament held March 17-April 4 in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The tournament is organized by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) and the Sverdlovsk Region Chess Federation. The winner earns the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen in the 2020 World Chess Championship.
The format is a double round-robin of 14 rounds.
The time control is 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, then 15 minutes to finish the game with a 30-second increment starting from the first move. No draw offers are allowed before move 41.
The prize fund is 500,000 euros.

Participants:
1. Fabiano Caruana (2842)
2. Ding Liren (2805)
3. Alexander Grischuk (2777)
4. Ian Nepomniachtchi (2774)
5. Teimour Radjabov (2765)
6. Anish Giri (2763)
7. Wang Hao (2758)
8. Kirill Alekseenko (2704)

Official site

Schedule in UTC:

Round 1 Mar 17, 2020 10:00
Round 2 Mar 18, 2020 10:00
Round 3 Mar 19, 2020 10:00
Rest Day
Round 4 Mar 21, 2020 10:00
Round 5 Mar 22, 2020 10:00
Round 6 Mar 23, 2020 10:00
Rest Day
Round 7 Mar 25, 2020 10:00
Round 8 Mar 26, 2020 10:00
Round 9 Mar 27, 2020 10:00
Rest Day
Round 10 Mar 29, 2020 10:00
Round 11 Mar 30, 2020 10:00
Round 12 Mar 31, 2020 10:00
Rest Day
Round 13 Apr 2, 2020 10:00
Round 14 Apr 3, 2020 10:00

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2020-03-14

German Bundesliga 2019/20

The German Bundesliga season 2019/20 is held in different cities across Germany from November 2019 to April 2020.
Schachbundesliga was founded by the German Chess Federation in 1973. In the 1974/75 season it started with four regional groups of eight teams. In the end, the four group leaders determined the champions. The present form of the Bundesliga - group of 16 teams, started in 1980.
The Bundesliga is the world’s top chess league, and although the 16 teams compete for the German Championship it attracts the world’s best players. The teams play with each other in a round-robin format over a season. Each team consists of 8 players from a starting list of 18. A match win earns two team points, while a draw wins one.
Time control is 100 minutes for the first 40 moves and 50 for the rest of the game with a 30-second increment.
The season is split into seven weekend double rounds, starting on Saturdays at 2 pm and on Sundays at 10 am. The Bundesliga is played in four changing venues around Germany - the rounds from 13th to 15th are held in Berlin.

Official site

Schedule (UTC):
Round 1 Nov 23, 2019 13:15
Round 2 Nov 24, 2019 09:15

Round 3 Dec 7, 2019 13:15
Round 4 Dec 8, 2019 09:15

Round 5 Feb 8, 2020 13:15
Round 6 Feb 9, 2020 09:15
Round 7 Feb 22, 2020 13:15
Round 8 Feb 23, 2020 09:15

Round 9 Mar 14, 2020 13:15
Round 10 Mar 15, 2020 09:15

Round 11 Apr 4, 2020 13:15
Round 12 Apr 5, 2020 09:15
Round 13 Apr 30, 2020 15:00

Round 14 May 1, 2020 13:00
Round 15 May 2, 2020 09:00

Watch the games of the German Bundesliga 2019/2020 with computer analysis on ChessBomb.

Watch back the games of German Bundesliga 2018/2019 German Bundesliga 2017 and the German Bundesliga 2016 with computer analysis on ChessBomb.

2020-03-03

Yudacufski Memorial TNM 2020

Yudacufski Memorial Tuesday Night Marathon is held from March 4th to April 14th at Mechanics' Institute Chess Club in San Francisco, CA, USA.
The tournament is played in 7 rounds
Time control: 120 minutes for the entire game.

Official website

Schedule:
Round 1 Mar 4, 2020 18:30
Round 2 Mar 11, 2020 17:30
Round 3 Mar 18, 2020 17:30
Round 4 Mar 25, 2020 17:30
Round 5 Apr 1, 2020 18:30
Round 6 Apr 8, 2020 18:30
Round 7 Apr 15, 2020 18:30

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Bulgarian Chess Championships 2020

The Bulgarian Chess Championships 2020 the 84th Bulgarian Individual Championship and the 69th Women's Chess Championship are held in the Bulgarian capital - Sofia from 2nd to 10th March 2020.
System of play: 9 (nine) rounds, Swiss system.
Time control: 90 minutes for the entire game, with 30 seconds added for each turn played, starting with the first one.

Official site

Schedule in UTC
March 2 (Monday) 16:30 pm Technical Conference
17:00 Round 1
March 03 (Tuesday) 11.30 Round 2
16:00 Round 3
March 04 (Wednesday) 17:00 Round 4
March 05 (Thursday) 17:00 Round 5
March 06 (Friday) 17:00 Round 6
March 07 (Saturday) 16:00 Round 7
March 08 (Sunday) 16:00 Round 8
March 09 (Monday) 12:00 Round 9

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2020-03-02

FIDE Women's Grand Prix - Lausanne 2020

The FIDE Women's Grand Prix - Lausanne is held from 2nd to 13th March 2020 in Lausanne, Switzerland. It's a single round robin tournament featuring the famous chess players: Ju, Wenjun; Alexandra Goryachkina; Muzychuk, Mariya; Muzychuk, Anna; Harika, Dronavalli; Dzagnidze, Nana; Alexandra Kosteniuk; Kashlinskaya, Alina; Abdumalik, Zhansaya; Cramling, Pia; Stefanova, Antoaneta; Sebag, Marie

Official site

Schedule in UTC:
Round 1 Mar 2, 2020 14:00
Round 2 Mar 3, 2020 14:00
Round 3 Mar 4, 2020 14:00
Round 4 Mar 5, 2020 14:00
Round 5 Mar 6, 2020 14:00
Round 6 Mar 7, 2020 14:00
Rest Day
Round 7 Mar 9, 2020 14:00
Round 8 Mar 10, 2020 14:00
Round 9 Mar 11, 2020 14:00
Round 10 Mar 12, 2020 14:00
Round 11 Mar 13, 2020 10:30

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2020-03-01

20th Flower of the Mediterranean

The 20th International Women's Chess Tournament "Flower of the Mediterranean" (Cvijet Mediterana WGM) 2020 is held between 3rd and 10th March in Rijeka , organised by the chess club Draga from Rijeka. "The Flower of the Mediterranean" is promoted in the week of the International Women's Day.

Official site

Schedule
Round 1 - 01.03.2020. 14:30
Round 2 - 02.03.2020. 14:30
Round 3 - 03.03.2020. 08:30
Round 4 - 03.03.2020. 15:00
Round 5 - 04.03.2020. 14:30
Round 6 - 05.03.2020. 08:30
Round 7 - 05.03.2020. 15:00
Round 8 - 06.03.2020. 14:30
Round 9 - 07.03.2020. 9:00

Watch the games of the 20th Flower of the Mediterranean with computer analysis LIVE on ChessBomb.

You can see games from previous issues of the tournament with computer analysis at ChessBomb:
19th Flower of the Mediterranean 2019
18th Mediterranean Flower 2018 (Winner Elena Tomilova)
17th Mediterranean Flower WGM 2017 (Winner WGM Adriana Nikolova)
16th Mediterranean Flower WGM 2016 (Winner WGM Adriana Nikolova)
15th Mediterranean Flower WGM 2015 (Winner IM Deimante Daulyten)