The SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia will be held from the 5th to the 9th of July in Zagreb, Croatia as a 10-player round robin. It is part of the Grand Chess Tour, a series of Classical, Rapid and Blitz tournaments with a total prize pool of $1,400,000.
For the Rapid and Blitz events, the games in the rapid portion are worth twice as many points as their blitz counterparts. The rapid portion is a 10-player round-robin, and the blitz portion is a 10-player double round-robin.
In the event of a tie, the two tied players will play a mini-match of 2 rapid (10+5) games. If more than two players are tied, a blitz (5+3) round-robin will be held to determine the winner.
The time control for the rapid games is 25 minutes for the entire game with a 10-second increment beginning from move 1.
The time control for the blitz games is 5 minutes for the entire game with a 2-second increment beginning from move 1.
PGN OF THE GAME:
[Event “SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia”]
[Site “Zagreb, Croatia”]
[Date “2023.07.07”]
[Round “8.4”]
[White “Carlsen, Magnus”]
[Black “Duda, Jan-Krzysztof”]
[Result “1-0”]
[WhiteElo “2835”]
[BlackElo “2732”]
[Variant “Standard”]
[TimeControl “-“]
[ECO “E04”]
[Opening “Catalan Opening: Open Defense”]
[Termination “Unknown”]
[Annotator “lichess.org”]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. g3 dxc4 5. Bg2 { E04 Catalan Opening: Open Defense } c5 6. O-O Nc6 7. Qa4 Bd7 8. Qxc4 cxd4 9. Nxd4 Rc8 10. Nc3 Nxd4 11. Qxd4 Bc5 12. Qh4 Bc6 13. Bxc6+ Rxc6 14. Rd1 Qa5 15. Bg5 Be7 16. Rac1 h6 17. Ne4 Rxc1 18. Rxc1 Nxe4 19. Bxe7 Qd2 20. Bg5 Nxg5 21. Rc8+ Ke7 22. Rxh8 Qxe2 23. Qb4+ Kf6 24. Qf4+ Kg6 25. Kg2 e5 26. Qe3 Qxb2 27. h4 Ne6 28. Qe4+ Kf6 29. Re8 Qb5 30. Rb8 Nc5 31. Qd5 a6 32. Rf8 { White wins. } 1-0
Support my channel and subscribe.
Follow me on:
You can support my channel on
Check out my products here:
Simply weak game, the brilliant move was begging to be played
Bg5 is great move by carlsen
Bg5 is exactly the kind of thing Magnus meant when he said, “you have to be a shark, smell the blood in the water.”