The knockout phase of the Chess.com Global Chess Championship kicked off today and it will be played from September 14 to October 9. The Knockout part of the event features 32 players who qualified from the Play-in CGC tournaments and 32 invited players. 64 players are divided in eight groups, and the Winners of each group will move on to the CGC Finals which will take place from 2-9 November in Toronto, Canada. Remaining 56 players will share the total prize fund of $440,000 for the CGC Knockout. A very strong CGC Knockout line-up includes Hikaru Nakamura, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Wesley So, Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Anish Giri, Ding Liren and Levon Aronian who are topping the respective groups: Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D, Group E, Group F, Group G, and Group H (click on each group to see participants, pairings and games schedule).
The participants of the Group H are: Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Samuel Sevian, Nikolas Theodorou, Maksim Matlakov, Eduardo Iturrizaga, and Rasmus Svane. Two matches of the H group will be played on the first day of the Knock-out phase, September 14th.
Group H – Round 1 pairings and schedule:
Samuel Sevian vs Rasmus Svane, September 14, 18:00 CEST
Francisco Vallejo Pons vs Maksim Matlakov, September 14, 19:00 CEST
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Eduardo Iturrizaga, September 15, 13:00 CEST
Levon Aronian vs Nikolas Theodorou, September 17, 18:00 CEST
Hikaru’s group LIVE / Duda’s group LIVE / Wesley So’s group LIVE / Caruana’s group LIVE / Nepo’s group LIVE / Giri’s group LIVE / Ding Liren’s group LIVE / Aronian’s group LIVE
