While the revolutionary of the Freestyle Grand Slam 2025 chess begins on February 7, we take a look at the players in competition in the tournament. Also see the format of the Grand Chelem Freestyle Format, the calendar and the live streaming details.
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The Tour of the Grand Chelem Freestyle 2025 begins on February 7 in Weissenhaus, Germany, bringing together the best chess players in the world. The tour will start with step 1 which will take place from February 7 to 14. Four other scenes are planned in Paris, New York, Delhi and Cape Town. The player with the greatest number of points at the end of stage 5 of CAP Town will be declared winner.
The Freestyle Grand Slam Tour 2025 Stag 1 will include the three best chess players in the world and the new world champion in Gukesh. In addition to the feeling of chess of 18 years of India, Gukesh, the German leg will include the co -owner and the world n ° 1 Magnus Carlsen, world n ° 2 Fabiano Caruana, world n ° 3 Hikaru Nakamura, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Alireza Firouzja , Levon Aronian, Vincent Keymer, Vladimir Fedoseev and Javokhir Sindarov.
How are the Freestyle Grand Slam Tour 2025 players selected?
There are a set of criteria for this. Each big home will include 10 players. Three GMS will be the three best players from the previous Grand Chelem followed by the three best players in accordance with the Faid Classical Coast. The winner of a major classic tournament and the winner of a qualification tournament will also be included. The organizers are also allowed to invite two players through generic characters.
During the tour in 2025, Carlsen, Caruana and Aronian are the three players who qualified following the finish in the first three of the Freestyle Chess Challenge 2024. Nakamura, Abdusattorov and Firouzja qualified on the basis of the dimensions, While Gukesh participated in the competition by being part of the competition by being qualifying on the odds, while Gukesh participated in the competition by being in progress by being qualifying for the odds, While Gukesh participated in the competition by being qualified as a competition by being assured by being qualified as a rating, while Gukesh participated in the competition by being qualified as competitions in Being qualifying the world champion.
Fedoseev progressed by winning the qualification tournament.
Keymer and Viswanathan Anand received the jokers and after the departure of the Indian GM, Sindarov was invited when he finished second in the qualification tournament.
What is the format of freestyle chess?
The format of freestyle chess which is also known as Chess960 or Fischer Random is slightly different from conventional failures. Unlike conventional failures, in freestyle failures, the back parts are randomized at the start of the game. The pieces, however, move in the same way as in conventional failures, but there are some additional rules.
The randomized black parts reflect the positions of the whites while the king must be between the towers and the bishops must be on squares of opposite color.
Prix Fund of the Grand Slam Freestyle tour
Each stage of the visit to the great freestyle chess will have a price fund of $ 75,000.
Format of the Grand Slam chess tour
Each stage of the Freestyle chess tour will start with round matches followed by a direct elimination scene.
Time control: Rapid 10 minutes for the game + 10 seconds increment by movement
Round format: Each player will face the other nine opponents once. The eight best players will go to the stage with direct elimination.
Direct elimination of stage time control: Classical 90 minutes + 30 seconds increments per movement.
Direct elimination stage format: The players will be eliminated with a single defeat.
Direct elimination binding system:
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Two fast games (10 + 10 time control)
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If it is still equal, two blitz games (5 + 2 time control)
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If he is still on par, a tendering Armageddon game
Freestyle Tour Grand Slam 2025 Stade 1 Hours
Round of the round: February 7-8
Quarter -finals: February 9-10
Semi-finals and playoffs for the 5th to 8th: February 11-12
Finals: February 13-14
Day 1 twinning:
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Freestyle chess Grand Slam Streaming live: The matches will be broadcast live on the YouTube channel of Freestyle Chess and Chess.com.
