FIDE World Cup 2021 - Games and Results
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The FIDE World Cup takes place in Krasnaya Polyana 12th July to 8th August. The venue which is close to Sochi and which hosted events in the 2014 Winter Olympics and is high in the mountains. The field is very strong headed by World Champion Magnus Carlsen, but also including Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Alexander Grischuk, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Maxime Vachier Lagrave, Alireza Firouzja, Leinier Dominguez, Sergey Karjakin, Pentala Harikrishna, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, Dmitry Andreikin, Nikita Vitiugov etc. The event has two innovations, it's 8 rounds rather than 7 with the first round being a sort of preliminary. Secondly there is a women's event alongside for the first time although they have had a World Championship under a very similar formula. Some women players have the right to play in the men's event so they have had to decide. The top two players in the men's event qualify for the FIDE Candidates of 2022 - this excludes Magnus Carlsen who will either not need to play or be already qualified. The women's event has three places in their Candidates event (other than Ju Wenjun, Goryachkina, Koneru and Lagno who are qualified by other methods). The women's event is just 7 rounds. First day of play 12th July 2021 1pm UK time