The strongest chess players will play with the new time control, invented by Oleg Skvortsov, the main sponsor of the tournament, and the oldest chess club in the World.
Carlsen repeated his succes in rapid, Grischuk won the blitz tournament.
Tournament format
Swiss
Time control
15 minutes +10 seconds; 3 minutes + 2 seconds
Members
M. Carlsen,I. Nepomniachtchi, T. Radjabov, S. Mamedyarov, A. Grischuk, V. Kramnik, M. Vachier-Lagrave, V. Ivanchuk, P. Svidler, B. Gelfand, L. Aronian etc.
The FIDE World Cup in Baku was one of the strongest tournament in chess history and ended with the unbelievably dramatic and memorable final match between two Russian grandmasters - Sergey Karjakin and Peter Svidler. The former managed to reverse the negative trend after losing two games, win back in classic chess and outplay Svidler on tie-break.
Tournament format
knock-out
Time control
classic, rapid, blitz
Members
S. Karjakin, P. Svidler, V. Topalov, H. Nakamura, F. Caruana, A. Giri, Ding Liren, V. Kramnik, W. So, A. Grischuk, L. Aronian, E. Tomashevsky, D. Jakovenko, M. Vachier-Lagrave, M. Adams, B. Gelfand, S. Mamedyarov, T. Radjabov etc.
Commentators
GM Evgenij Miroshnichenko, GM Emil Sutovsky, Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam