Always has been ๐ ๐ซ
Geneva's checklist
from defending itself against Hamas before Israel achieves meaningful security goals
Please explain to me, in what world "defending against Hamas" (which are islamist terrorists) and "achieving meaningful security goals" includes bombing a Greek Orthodox Christian church?
Everything, not everyone
Are "human animals" things or ones?
Nope. The topic at hand is free ice-ceam. A topic that you, as a rational adult, can understand that is 100% literal and not at hyperbolic example to make a point about general trends and not a single specific item.
Wow, that number is quite amazing. 22% of American Jews in 2021 thought that the 2023-24 military campaign is a genocide. So at least 22% of American Jews are time travelers!
You should ask Nepo or Dubov
Fedora 39 is clearly superior to Ubuntu 23
Format
Knock-out tournament. Each match consists of 90 minutes of 5+1 blitz games, 60 minutes of 3+1 blitz games and 30 minutes of 1+1 bullet games. In case of a tie, the players play four additional 1+1 games, and if necessary. an Armageddon game where the players bid the time.
Players
(chess.com ratings)
- Hikaru Nakamura ๐บ๐ธ 3286
- Yu Yangyi ๐จ๐ณ 3077
- Alireza Firouzja ๐ซ๐ท 2896
- Magnus Carlsen ๐ณ๐ด 2887
- Fabiano Caruana ๐บ๐ธ 2813
- ~~Ding Liren ๐จ๐ณ 2787~~ Ian Nepomniachtchi ๐ณ๏ธ 2785
- Wesley So ๐บ๐ธ 2765
- Levon Aronian ๐บ๐ธ 2750
- Arjun Erigaisi ๐ฎ๐ณ 2737
- Dmitry Andreikin ๐ณ๏ธ 2736
- Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ๐ซ๐ท 2722
- Nodirbek Abdusattorov ๐บ๐ฟ 2708
- Alexey Sarana ๐ท๐ธ 2707
- Nihal Sarin ๐ฎ๐ณ 2689
- Gukesh D ๐ฎ๐ณ 2659
- Santosh Gujrathi Vidit ๐ฎ๐ณ 2616
Schedule
Round of 16
- Nakamura vs Yu Yangyi: Sep 4, 13:00 UTC
- So vs Aronian: Sep 5, 18:00 UTC
- Sarin vs Sarana: Sep 6, 16:00 UTC
- Firouzja vs Andreikin: Sep 8, 17:00 UTC
- Liren vs Erigaisi: Sep 10, 13:00 UTC
- MVL vs Gukesh: Sep 11, 12:30 UTC
- Caruana vs Abdusattorov: Sep 11, 17:00 UTC
- Carlsen vs Vidit: Sep 12, 13:00 UTC
Quarterfinals
- QF1: Sep 13, 13:00 UTC
- QF2: Sep 14, 12:00 UTC
- QF3: Sep 15, 12:30 UTC
- QF4: Sep 15, 17:00 UTC
Semifinals
- SF1: Sep 19, 17:00 UTC
- SF2: Sep 20, 16:00 UTC
Final
Sep 22. 18:00 UTC
Links
The Julius Baer Generation Cup is the 5th event on the 2023 Champions Chess Tour.
Format
The Julius Baer Generation Cup features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if one player loses one match he drops down to a Losers bracket and can still win the tournament. In the Grand Final if the player from the Winners bracket loses, there's a rematch.
The total prize fund is $235,000, with a top prize of $30,000 (150 Tour points) in Division I, $10,000 in Division II (50 points) and $5,000 (20 points) in Division III. The top 3 in Division I and the winner of Division II qualify straight to Division I of the next event on the Tour.
The time control for normal games is 15 minutes per player for all moves, with a 3-second increment each move. In Division I and II the Winners bracket matches are played over four games, while in the Losers bracket there are two games. In Division III all matches are over two games except the 4-game Grand Final. A tie in a match is decided by an Armageddon game with no increment, where the players bid for time they are willing to play with. The lowest bidder gets that time and can pick colour, while the opponent gets 15 minutes. Black only needs a draw to win the match.
Players
Division I
- Magnus Carlsen ๐ณ๐ด 2835
- Fabiano Caruana ๐บ๐ธ 2782
- Alireza Firouzja ๐ซ๐ท 2777
- Wesley So ๐บ๐ธ 2769
- Nodirbek Abdusattorov ๐บ๐ฟ 2725
- M. Amin Tabatabaei ๐ฎ๐ท 2696
- Pavel Eljanov ๐บ๐ฆ 2695
- Denis Lazavik ๐ณ๏ธ 2560
Division II
- Ian Nepomniatchtchi ๐ณ๏ธ 2779
- Levon Aronian ๐บ๐ธ 2742
- Vladislav Artemiev ๐ณ๏ธ 2698
- Alexey Sarana ๐ท๐ธ 2685
- Nihal Sarin ๐ฎ๐ณ 2684
- Bassem Amin ๐ช๐ฌ 2684
- Andrey Esipenko ๐ณ๏ธ 2683
- Vladimir Fedoseev ๐ธ๐ฎ 2676
- Laurent Fressinet ๐ซ๐ท 2652
- Rauf Mamedov ๐ฆ๐ฟ 2633
- Nodirbek Yakubboev ๐บ๐ฟ 2630
- Eduardo Iturrizaga ๐ช๐ธ 2617
- Maksim Chigaev ๐ช๐ธ 2616
- Aleksey Dreev ๐ณ๏ธ 2698
- Aydin Suleymanli ๐ฆ๐ฟ 2586
- Evgeny Alekseev ๐ฎ๐ฑ 2573
Division III
- Anish Giri ๐ณ๐ฑ 2769
- Vladimir Kramnik ๐ณ๏ธ 2753
- Shakhriyar Mamedyarov ๐ฆ๐ฟ 2747
- Dmitry Andreikin ๐ณ๏ธ 2729
- Parham Maghsoodloo ๐ฎ๐ท 2702
- Samuel Sevian ๐บ๐ธ 2698
- Igor Kovalenko ๐บ๐ฆ 2674
- Matthias Bluebaum ๐ฉ๐ช 2670
- Etienne Bacrot ๐ซ๐ท 2662
- Jaime Santos Latasa ๐ช๐ธ 2656
- Alan Pichot ๐ช๐ธ 2642
- Gata Kamsky ๐บ๐ธ 2641
- Shant Sargsyan ๐ฆ๐ฒ 2639
- Benjamin Gledura ๐ญ๐บ 2637
- Georg Meier ๐บ๐พ 2629
- Yuriy Kuzubov ๐บ๐ฆ 2627
- Benjamin Bok ๐ณ๐ฑ 2617
- Aram Hakobyan ๐ฆ๐ฒ 2612
- Samvel Ter-Sahakyan ๐ฆ๐ฒ 2609
- Olexandr Bortnyk ๐บ๐ฆ 2608
- Shamsiddin Vokhidov ๐บ๐ฟ 2597
- Nikolas Theodoru ๐ฌ๐ท 2586
- Constantin Lupulescu ๐ท๐ด 2584
- Bardiya Daneshvar ๐ฎ๐ท 2570
- Velimir Ivic ๐ท๐ธ 2570
- Tuan Minh Le ๐ป๐ณ 2559
- Vugar Rasulov ๐ฆ๐ฟ 2549
- Rudik Makarian ๐ณ๏ธ 2546
- Nikita Meshkovs ๐ฑ๐ป 2544
- Diego Flores ๐ฆ๐ท 2534
- Pablo Salinas Herrera ๐จ๐ฑ 2464
- Garg Aradhya ๐ฎ๐ณ 2395
Schedule
Division I
- Quarterfinals: 30th August
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:20 UTC
- Game 4: 16:55 UTC
- Game 5: 17:40 UTC
- Losers Round 1: 31st August
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:20 UTC
- Semifinals: 31st August
- Game 1: 16:50 UTC
- Game 2: 17:25 UTC
- Game 3: 18:10 UTC
- Game 4: 18:45 UTC
- Game 5: 19:30 UTC
- Losers Quarterfinals: 1st September
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:10 UTC
- Final: 1st September
- Game 1: 16:50 UTC
- Game 2: 17:25 UTC
- Game 3: 18:10 UTC
- Game 4: 18:45 UTC
- Game 5: 19:30 UTC
- Losers Final: 2nd September
- Game 1: 16:50 UTC
- Game 2: 17:25 UTC
- Game 3: 18:05 UTC
- Grand Final: 3rd September
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:20 UTC
- Game 4: 16:55 UTC
- Game 5: 17:40 UTC
- Grand Final Reset: 3rd September
- Game 1: 18:15 UTC
- Game 2: 18:50 UTC
- Game 3: 19:25 UTC
It is too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree, no random map or spawn position, only 2 players, both sides exact same pieces, etc.
Polytopia addresses these limitations.