In her recent video series, one of the greatest attackers in history, GM Judit Polgar, said: "Don't chicken out in the meantime at some point. In that game, Black won, and Firouzja after playing a sound novelty had a winning position. By move 16, they were still following a game played in 1997 between GMs Boris Gelfand and GM Veselin Topalov. Game four saw the players dive deep into King's Indian Defense theory. He scored four wins and one draw three of those wins came consecutively. The inaugural global chess champion won nearly every game before the first break. Although he dropped one loss due to a blunder (he was better in that game too), he shot out to virtually the best start anybody could ask for against a former world number-two and potentially most talented child prodigy ever. Like a magnet that is pulled in two directions with equal force, the match would not lend itself to one player or another until the final tiebreak of all tiebreaks, the armageddon game. Both players wanted so deeply to win, and time and again, after being knocked off balance, they stood once more on two feet. "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't," wrote Mark Twain, and an author could not have imagined the explosive collision of willpower that Wednesday's match presented. While So later admitted that he considered Firouzja a favorite in the bullet segment, he disproved even his own assumption in this match. SmarterChess predicted a Firouzja match victory by a small margin, with the greatest difference being in their bullet abilities. grandmaster led their head-to-head on by four points and it was the first time these two gladiators met in the SCC. For Firouzja, this is already the furthest he's gotten ever in the SCC So's been the runner-up of the final three times and will be looking to reach the final once again and to win his maiden title in this tournament. So won a convincing and one-sided match against GM Levon Aronian, and Firouzja defeated GM Dmitry Andreikin by just one point. The live broadcast was hosted by GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Robert Hess.īoth players reached this stage by winning a match last week. Games from the event can be viewed on our events page. You can also enjoy the show on our Twitch channel and catch all our live broadcasts on /ChesscomLive. You can watch the 2023 Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase on /TV. IST. After that, GM Hikaru Nakamura plays GM Fabiano Caruana in the Quarterfinals at 12:30 p.m. There will be two matches on Thursday, September 14. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (replacing GM Ding Liren) faces GM Arjun Erigaisi in the Round of 16 at 8:00 a.m. So won with a brilliant knight sacrifice that led to a 16.5-15.5 final score. They finished the bullet segment with an even score, then finished four overtime bullet games with another even score, and were only separated by the second armageddon game in SCC history. But instead of enjoying an extension of his pleasant ride, he was met with iron resistance Firouzja bounced back and evened the score in the 3+1 portion. So dominated the first segment and gained a five-point lead.
He defeated GM Alireza Firouzja and is the first player to reach the Semifinals of the 2023 Speed Chess Championship Presented by Coinbase. In the longest SCC match so far this year, taking over four hours and totaling 32 games, GM Wesley So emerged victorious.
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