11.09.15 - 05.10.15 Baku, Azerbaijan |
Players | Regulations | Schedule |
Veselin Topalov Hikaru Nakamura Fabiano Caruana Anish Giri Ding Liren Vladimir Kramnik Wesley So Alexander Grischuk Levon Aronian Sergey Karjakin Evgeny Tomashevsky Dmitry Jakovenko... Total: |
Knockout system Time control: (90'+30')+30''/move Each stage except the final match consists of mini-matches of two classical games (+tiebreaks games if needed). The final match consists of 4 classical games (followed by tiebreak games if needed). |
September 11th - October 5th All rounds and tiebreaks begin at 13.00 Msk |
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If a match score is equal after the classical games, tiebreak games shall be played: 2 rapid games 25'+10"; if the score is still equal - 2 games 10'+10"; if the score is still equal - two blitz games 5'+3". If the score remains equal, then an armageddon game 5' vs 4' shall be played, where an increment of 3 seconds starts from move 61; the draw equals to the Black's win. |