GM Magnus Carlsen-led WR Chess Workforce beat GM Arjun Erigaisi‘s Workforce MGD1 within the ultimate to win the 2024 World Blitz Workforce Championship. They gained all seven matches within the group levels, cruised to the Quarterfinals, then defeated GMHans.com (GM Hans Niemann on high board confronted GM Ian Nepomniachtchi as Carlsen once more sat out the match) and Chessy (GM Richard Rapport) to achieve the Remaining.
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The highest groups simply dominated the group levels and the Spherical of 16, earlier than the actual motion started within the Quarterfinals.
FIDE World Blitz Workforce Championship Bracket (Final 8)
Full video games and standings: Swimming pools | Knockout
Carlsen misplaced to Arjun within the first match of the ultimate, however his workforce scraped a 3.5-2.5 win, after which within the second his win was sufficient to seal victory with a 3-3 draw.
Congratulations to WR Chess Workforce on profitable the 2024 FIDE World Blitz Workforce Championship! pic.twitter.com/zgxUw57cze
— chess24 (@chess24com) August 5, 2024
Carlsen’s tense win over Arjun is our Sport of the Day, and will likely be analyzed by GM Rafael Leitao.
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The 2024 FIDE World Speedy and Blitz Workforce Championships run August 2-5 in Astana, Kazakhstan, with 40 groups of six gamers competing. Every workforce should characteristic at the least one feminine participant and one “leisure participant,” by no means rated 2000+. The Speedy is a 12-round Swiss with a time management of quarter-hour for all strikes, plus a 10-second increment per transfer. The Blitz (3+2) begins with groups enjoying a round-robin in swimming pools, earlier than the highest 16 play a knockout, the place every conflict options two mini-matches.
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