Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland 2023: Day 1 | #GrandChessTour

Live from the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, the 2nd Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland is the second of five legs of the Grand Chess Tour. Five of the Tour players are joined by five wildcards (pairings below) for a rapid round robin and a blitz double round robin. Today are the first three rounds of the rapid round robin. Join GMs Varuzhan Akobian, Cristian Chirila, Yasser Seirawan, IM Nazi Paikidze, and WGM Anastasiya Karlovich for the move-by-move.

2023.05.21

RAPID ROUND 1 | 25 Min. Incr. 10 Sec.
Jan-Krzysztof Duda vs. Anish Giri
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs. Levon Aronian
Radoslaw Wojtaszek vs. Magnus Carlsen
Wesley So vs. Bogdan Deac
Richard Rapport vs. Kirill Shevchenko

RAPID ROUND 2 | 25 Min. Incr. 10 Sec.
Magnus Carlsen vs. Wesley So
Anish Giri vs. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Bogdan Deac vs. Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Kirill Shevchenko vs. Levon Aronian
Richard Rapport vs. Radoslaw Wojtaszek

RAPID ROUND 3 | 25 Min. Incr. 10 Sec.
Jan-Krzysztof Duda vs. Magnus Carlsen
Levon Aronian vs. Anish Giri
Wesley So vs. Richard Rapport
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs. Bogdan Deac
Radoslaw Wojtaszek vs. Kirill Shevchenko

[argrig]

Akobian is great at this. Gives just the right amount of info about the position and does it quickly.

[pinakichatterjee]

Yasser is such a great commentator. It's just soothing to the ears having him analyse the game.

[P.sherman]

I like the GM who does the analysis with engine he seems to be a nice guy

[markrobertson]

6:00 Magnus is also:
Grand chess tour winner
World rapid and blitz champion
No1

[zogzog]

Already Anish is keeping up with Magnus! Well done Giri!!

[RVeda-vhon]

16:48 Magnus would rather relax and play interesting entertaining chess than grub out something correct and boring. He's like a grand king bestowing largess on his peers and the people out of his vast resources. Polish defense in Warsaw - what a showman. 🙂

[vincentvangogh]

Magnus got Boris Johnson hair stylist

[RVeda-vhon]

33:44 Technically known as 'the open c file'. 🙂

[thomaswyss]

I dont predict Magnus great succes with that haircut🤣. Color it grey and Id cast him as Luchenko in "The Queensgambit"

[gelocruz]

Magnus playing polish because he's in Poland

[letsmakeit]

1. i was critical of this commentary team in the last tournament but Varuzhan and Paikidze have improved a lot these last few weeks. It's good to see.
2. Magnus looks like hans lmao idk who ended who's career

[stawlevel]

Magnus is the Better and the King of chess

[bobby]

Yasser farts and pardons himself at 1:34:24

You're welcome.

[mightbefire]

No love for the noobs. Why do you hate the eval bar so much? No one in St Louis thought to keep it on the screen?

[ReneNightcart]

Y r cannon fodder Kirilenko and Deac there?

[odisea]

I think you should get the mop off your head