Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour

The Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour an online series hosted by chess24 has been announced. The tour will include the recently concluded Magnus Carlsen Invitational, the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge: May 19 - June 3, the Online Chess Masters: June 20 – July 5, the Legends of Chess: July 21 – August 5 and then a Tour Final: August 9 – August 20. There will be $1m in prize money. 

Magnus Carlsen Invitational

The Magnus Carlsen Invitational was an online chess tournament that ran from 18 April to 3 May 2020. In addition to the world chess champion Magnus Carlsen, who organized the tournament, Fabiano Caruana, Ding Liren, Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri, Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took part in the event. 

Carlsen beat Nakamura in the final to win the tournament.

Click here to view all the games of Magnus Carlsen Invitational

The Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge

The Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge was a 12-player online super-tournament taking place on chess24 from May 19 to June 3 2020. Chief arbiter: Panagiotis Nikolopoulos. The 2nd event of the Magnus Carlsen Tour, it had a $150,000 prize fund with $45,000 for 1st place. The winner would qualify for the $300,000 Grand Final in August. In the preliminary round robin stage (May 19-21) the players played each other once in Rapid chess, with the Top 8 going forward to the knockout stage. Tie break: 1) direct encounter, 2) number of wins and 3) Sonneborn-Berger score. Time control: 15 minutes for all moves, with a 10-second increment after each move. No draw offers allowed before move 40.

Click here to view all games of The Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge

The winner was Daniil Dubov. 

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